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Practice professional development plan 2001
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Aims of this Professional Development Plan
- To continue to develop an educational programme more tailored to the needs of the practice,
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individual doctors, nurses and other staff groups working within it.
- To include within the programme all staff members, aiming to meet their
individual and practice orientated needs as far as possible.
- To adopt a flexible approach which allows us to take advantage of
development opportunities presented to the practice over time.
PCG & NHS priorities
The educational needs and development of the practice staff and doctors need
to coincide with wider policy as laid down in the NHS White Paper "The
New NHS", the requirements of the TACT PMS contract, the development of National Service Frameworks and PCG
priorities. These are enumerated below:
NHS Priorities including National Service Framework
- Cardiovascular disease NSF
- Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Smoking
- Care of the elderly NSF
- Diabetes NSF
- Mental health NSF
- Cancers
- Accidents
PCG Priorities
- Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Mental health
Practice aims
Mission statement
- Practice Clinical Meetings to take place on a monthly basis, each
one lasting at least 60 minutes.
- Critical event analysis at each practice clinical meeting.
- Other educational activities as dictated by ongoing needs of the
practice to be planned in advance
- Attendance records will be kept, the activity involved and any changes
in practice policy resulting. Each doctor will attend practice clinical
meetings.
- Audit
Audit will be performed regularly throughout the year.
- Protocols
The practice has a large number of protocols, which require to be regularly
overviewed and discussed by the appropriate professionals involved.
- Clinical governance
To improve the practice's functioning in this respect. particularly in audit
(Dr BN Cheek).
- Formulary
To optimise practice prescribing policy in line with the development of the
PCG Prescribing Formulary (Dr B N Cheek).
- Integration
To continue to develop and extend the role of the practice nurses, district
nurses and health visitors and work towards an integrated nursing team.
- Computerisation
The practice to move towards being paperless.
To assess the needs of the local population
To assess the needs of the local population and respond appropriately
with the development of the appropriate services based at Well Close Square
Surgery.
To promote the philosophy of an "educational practice"
To promote the philosophy of an "educational practice" with
development of a well balanced team including all staff:
- Further development of team based working to encourage participation of all staff
members in an integrated and inclusive way, extending to team working within
the TACT PMS.
- Bimonthly Primary Health Care Team Meetings to discuss areas of importance
and interest. All staff will have the opportunity to submit topics to the
programme. Monthly clinical meeting (sttrategic).
- Regular staff educational meetings held bimonthly and lasting 60 minutes.
- GP Registrar training involving twice weekly tutorial (Dr B N Cheek) and
weekly half day courses together with other courses.
- To continue to develop internal practice appraisal (Dr J M Watson/Mrs S Steele)
- Appraisal becomes "personal development interviews" for
staff and nurses.
- Development of "personal development interviews" for
doctors.
- Community staff to undergo appraisal through the Trust.
To maintain practice income:
- Monitor both practice income and expenditure (Mrs S Steele)
- Identify potential new sources of practice income (Partners/Mrs S Steele)
3 Monthly practice business meetings (Partners/Mrs S Steele)
To keep abreast of local, national, medical and medico-political
developments
To keep abreast of local, national, medical and medico-political developments
and respond appropriately, ensuring the promotion of the overall practice aims:
- PCG involvement - (Dr RMS Wooding/Sister Jane Smithson/Jane Steven)
- PMS- (Dr BN Cheek)
- OMB - (Dr AC Bromly/Dr RMS Wooding)
- LMC - (Dr BN Cheek)
- GP Registrar Training - (Dr BN Cheek)
- Northumbria VTS - (Dr BN Cheek)
Monitoring and Review:
- Record to be kept of all educational activities within the practice
(Mrs S Steele). However, each staff member being responsible for his or her
own record keeping.
- Review of progress to take place every six months.
- Renewal of plan to take place annually.
Practice initiatives for 2001
Practice professional development plan 2001
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