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Fellowship by
Assessment archive
Already done it!
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Looking back, some thoughts by Ann Holmes about the process of
applying for FBA...
What we did
What we started
What worked well
Things I would have changed
What we did
- Made the decision
- Applied foe funding
- Applied for PGEA for in-house educatoin
- Planned the audits
- Started to think of cases
- Significant events
- Early diagnosis
- Made timetable, concentrated on areas which we knew neded
improvement or where no existingpolicy
- Allocated tasks
What we started
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Section |
Action |
| 3 |
Availability - draft and
audit |
| 4 |
Continuity of care - draft and audit |
| 5 |
Looked at system for reports and
messages |
| 6 |
CHS audit |
| 7 |
Out of hours policy drafted |
| 11 |
Created admin handbook |
| 12 |
Housebound list
Agencies list |
| 14 |
Medical records survey |
| 15 |
Practice leaflet |
What worked well
- Money
- For audit
- Secretarial costs
- Protected team time
- Preparing for the visit
- Action plan
- Time limits set
- Tasks delegated/shared
- Looking at other people's applications
- Audit
- Having data on computer
- MAAG/interface audits
- Keeping it simple
- Changing the re-audit
- Having a spare audit
- Good presentation with supplement
- FBA group meetings
- Our practice manager
Things I would have changed
- Employed extra secretarial help
- Started writing it up early
- Accepted that some things will date
- Decided who was going to write each section
- Get detailed advice about the individual parts of our
submission earlier
- Started video section earlier
- Expected the unexpected!