Ellie Bates

Micro-assistants are small AI tools that live inside the course content. Each one is designed to support a specific learning task at a particular moment in the journey. They’re not chatbots in a sidebar or generic digital tutors. Instead, they’re embedded into the flow of learning — in SCORM packages, mobile apps, or web-based modules — and aligned with the course goals.

Arts-based approaches are no longer a fringe idea in healthcare. In the UK, they are increasingly recognised as valuable tools for improving health and wellbeing — not as “nice extras,” but as essential components of a broader, more sustainable approach to care.

When budgets are tight, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) can sometimes be seen as a secondary priority — something desirable, but optional. But CPD is not a luxury. It is critical infrastructure — for maintaining safe practice, adapting to change, supporting career development, and sustaining a healthy, motivated workforce. Failing to invest meaningfully in CPD has real consequences — not only for individual professionals, but for healthcare organisations