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05/11/2026

05/11/2026

New evidence reading for the vascular access community.

Today’s Association for Vascular Access email shared Solventum’s updated 2026 summary, Making peripheral lines a central focus.

The 19-page collection brings together research on peripheral IV complications, infection, securement and practice change. It includes established work as well as more recent studies.

A useful starting point for discussion, with the original papers to read alongside this manufacturer-produced summary. The publisher’s download is in the first comment.

05/11/2026

A procurement decision is only the beginning.

When a clinical product changes, the organisation still has to move people, practice and confidence with it.

Who needs to use it? What changes in practice? Who will support the transition locally? Where can staff practise?

Our Knowledge Hub explores workforce readiness behind product change. Article in the first comment.

05/11/2026

A clinical lead recently said: ‘we now have more device options than we have trainers to teach them safely’.

That is the real story of the device landscape. More precision, more options, more responsibility on the training side.

VeinTrain’s view: the answer is not more course days. It is a structured system that supports knowledge, practice and implementation.

Learn: access through the VeinTrain Online Academy.
Train: Online Skills Lab content and Train the Trainer.
Scale: HALO Centres and structured rollout.

05/11/2026

Changing the cannula is the easy bit.

Changing practice around it is harder.

A PIVC product switch can affect equipment handling, insertion technique, confidence, training demand, supervision and local governance.

The box may look similar.

The workflow often isn't.

For organisations preparing for product change, the question is not simply:

“Have we bought the product?”

It is:

“Are our people ready to use it well?”

05/11/2026

The journey of the blood sample. This helps clinicians understand why the collection of the sample must be done correctly.

In some countries the collection is also taken by the lab staff.

Training and education must cover all elements for a safe and accurate sample.

Join our online course for comprehensive and practical training that reaches all.

05/11/2026

05/11/2026

Scaling clinical skills training across a trust or several sites is not the same course, run more times.

It is a set of decisions about content, trainers, assessment and ongoing support, and about which of those stay consistent and which stay local.

Our Knowledge Hub planning checklist sets out six questions to answer before you extend delivery:

- Content: which curriculum and version will each site use, and who approves updates?
- Trainer capacity: who will teach, and how will their delivery be supported?
- Local assessment: who supervises workplace practice and authorises independent practice?
- Assurance: how will programme owners review delivery across sites?
- Continuity: how will new starters join and staff access refresher provision?
- Feedback: what will each site report back?

A course certificate does not replace employer or clinical organisation competency sign-off under local policy and scope of practice.

The full checklist is in the first comment.

05/11/2026

One living source of truth.

The HALO Intelligence Hub is where guidance, learning and centre experience stay connected: what we know stays current, what centres learn flows back, and everyone moves forward around one shared VeinTrain standard.

So many AI-generated courses out there share poor practice. The VeinTrain Standard creates an anchor, and links HALO centres to each other, wherever they are in the world.

Current guidance. Connected HALO centres. Continuous learning.

Learn, Train, Scale: IV Cannulation, venepuncture and phlebotomy training, built to stay live.