Oxfordshire Primary Care Learning - February 2012

 

 

    Essential training

    Cervical smear taker updates, there is an e learning package for this, we are still looking into how this will be funded but the weblink is www.pdinet.co.uk and it is being used in NESC in Wessex we will let you know more soon

    CERVICAL SCREENING – NEWS AND INFORMATION A quarterly newsletter for all those involved in the cervical screening programme

    Child Protection

    E-learning and link

    Revised Child protection information

    Child Protection Information sharing protocol 1 as a PDF or Child Protection Information sharing protocol as an html file

    There is a toolkit at  http://www.rcgp.org.uk/clinical_and_research/circ/safeguarding_children_toolkit.aspx 

    and the OSCB training website at – www.oscb.org.uk

    0-18 years: guidance for all doctors 

    The General Medical Council has published new guidance that sets out doctors’ role and responsibilities towards children and young people. The guidance will come into effect on 15 October 2007. All doctors have a duty to safeguard and protect the health and well-being of children and young people.

     

    Improving communication, the exchange of information and patient care: suggested

    This joint paper produced by the General Practitioners Committee and the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee offers a number of suggestions to improve two-way communication between primary and secondary care practitioners, for the benefit of patients. (BMA - general practitioners) 


    Information Governance training tool
    Useful link for free on line learning on this important topic

    BMA GP Employment Law Courses

    BMA Regional Services are offering a series of one-day courses on Employment Law for GPs. There are still limited places available on these informative training courses. Running throughout the year in venues across England, these courses will help you to keep track of employment legislation, best practice and human resources issues.

    Courses are available for GPs and Practice Managers.

    Four different courses are available:

    Managing Change will include recruitment and selection, contracts of employment, terminating employment, and redundancy and will help you to handle change among staff fairly and consistently.

    Managing Performance will help you to get the most from your staff and will include performance management, dealing with staff grievances, handling disciplinary matters and absence.

    Managing Equal Opportunities will include the development of an Equal Opportunities Policy, flexible working, managing diversity and avoiding discrimination and will help you to ensure that your staff are treated fairly and with respect.

    Managing Health and Safety will help you to understand your legal duties as an employer to minimise health and safety risks. The course will include the development of a Health and Safety Policy, creating a safe working environment and protecting staff who work on your premises but are not employed by you.

    If you have already registered for these courses but have not received a confirmation email from BMA Conferences please contact Jenny Fraser on 3 020 7383 6923
    If you should have any questions about the courses or are unable to access the website, please contact BMA Conferences on 2020 7383 6923 or by email at jfraser@bma.org.uk.

    Infection control

    information about this can be obtained from the health protection team at the PCT.

    Hot Information Tip

    Many of you will have used the National Library for Health's CKS (Clinical Knowledge Summaries) page http://cks.library.nhs.uk/ but did you know that buried in the top right hand corner of the page is a link to DynaMed. This resource is aimed at primary care staff and gives evidence based topic summaries for a large number (3000) conditions. Each topic is broken down into the following sections: General information (including ICD-9/-10 Codes) Causes and risk factors Complications and associated conditions History Physical Diagnosis Prognosis Treatment Prevention and Screening References including Reviews and guidelines Patient information Acknowledgements As DynaMed is American it does not necessarily point to UK national guidelines but it is a useful additional reference tool which is freely available to you if you are using a pc in the UK.

     

    Information governance (IG)

    the SCR implementation is going to need all clinicians to be aware of IG, so this should be regarded as essential training

    http://www.igte-learning.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/cms/

    Medical leadership competency framework available online

    From 1 May 2008 the medical leadership competency framework will be available online: www.institute.nhs.uk/mlcf.
    The framework describes the leadership competencies doctors need to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation     of health services.

    The enhancing engagement in medical leadership team are working with the General Medical Council to integrate the framework into 'Tomorrow's Doctors' and 'Good Medical Practice'. They are also working with the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board to integrate the framework into college curricula.

    For more information about the enhancing engagement in medical leadership project please visit: www.institute.nhs.uk/medicalleadership

    National Library for health

    https://register.athensams.net/nhs/_ Athens passwords (only from NHS PC's)

    Safeguarding children and young people

    Essential every 3 years for staff who have regular contact with children. Sessions are arranged by Jane Bell jane.bell@oxfordshirepct.nhs.uk   alternatively you can arrange training through the NSPCC/ Oxfordshire safeguarding children training project http://www.oscb.org.uk

    The NSPCC produces it's own training materials for health care professionals. A visit to their website is helpful. http://www.nspcc.org.uk/whatwedo

    Safeguarding Adults…is everybody’s business

     

 

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