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Dr Honor Merriman honor@oxfordprimarycarelearning.org.uk

County Continuing Professional Development Tutor

Forthcoming meetings

27th February GP education afternoon on the ageing spine and back pain

27th March GP and practice nurse education afternoon: Diabetes

Pensions seminar

RCGP Essential Training Programme for 2012

Revalidation: How to Prepare Your Portfolio

The latest version of the RCGP guide is available on the RCGP website. Here is a summary of the latest guidance

Appraisal news

mac users : Clarity believe that, due a recent update for Firefox users, those with Macs are no longer able to use Firefox/their Mac computers for ATK. You can either sign off on a work or separate computer, or call the toolkit helpline and they can sign off for you. Laura Hiller laura.hiller@oxfordshirepct.nhs.uk

Oxfordshire PCT values feedback on the GP appraisal process. If you are a GP who has recently had an appraisal for the year 2011-12 please take a few minutes to complete a survey form

Guidance for appraisees with difficulties submitting the “standard evidence” portfolio. Guidance by Dr. Paula Wright Northern Deanery Lead for Sessional GPs

The website address of the Appraisal Toolkit has changed from www.appraisals.nhs.uk to appraisals.clarity.co.uk (note there is no www in front of the website address). This is because the DH has requested that an NHS website address is no longer used for the Appraisal Toolkit

The package of E- Learning for GP’s is now available at a very small cost. It also provides CPD points details are at this site and a flyer explaining what is available.
Prescribing information from the PCT is now available under the Resources or Prescribing information tabs
Study comparing two different therapies for people with tendinopathy in their Achilles heel or knee

When booking an event please provide a separate cheque for each meeting and provide your e-mail address so that we can communicate with you

We have set up a yahoo group to use purely as a mailing list in case of cancellations or changes

you can join by e-mailing oxfordprimarycarelearning-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
and leave by e-mailing oxfordprimarycarelearning-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

About us: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for primary care in NHS Oxfordshire

"Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a continuing learning process that compliments formal undergraduate and postgraduate education and training. CPD will play an important role in the delivery of the new Revalidation system. CPD requires doctors to maintain and improve their standards across all areas of their practice. CPD should encourage and support specific changes in practice and career development, and have a role to play in helping doctors to keep up to date when they are not practising."
Guidance on Continuing Professional Development, General Medical Council, April 2004.

The role of the CPD tutor is to support all individuals working in primary care to optimise their professional development. We provide support for the appraisal process in Oxfordshire and enable GP's to provide information to be used in the process of revalidation.
We facilitate high quality education programmes and provide advice to organisations, practices and individuals.

Contact is best through email either through the website or directly: honor.merriman@ntlworld.com

Over the next 5 years we will be offering a series of updates that will cover your CPD needs for revalidation