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North Northumberland Trainers Group
Trainer group meeting held on Thursday 25th January,
2001 at Embleton Hall, Longframlington.
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Hopes and Fears for the group.
Fears
- Group will change and the needs will differ
- Bureaucracy
- Less time for training
- Group will become negative and back biting
- Recriminations/ punishing
- I'll be left behind
- I'll be isolated
- I'm a lame duck in the group
- Group will become stagnant and boring
- Group+/- individuals become complacent
- Becomes a waste of time
- Has no outcomes
Hopes
- Group becomes geed up
- Agenda set which stimulates
- Focus on process of training e.g. one/one, video
- Objectives
- Follow up work. Completion
- Enjoy it
- Support
- Balance support v objectives
- Friendly
- Safe
Draft Group Principles
- Making attendance a priority
- Respect for members
- Confidentiality for personal/ practice issues
- Minutes not confidential
- Good communication
- Administrative
- Between members
- Facilitator for group (?reviewed after 6 or 12/12)
- Time out can be called by any group member where the content is set aside
and how the group is working is explored
- Balance between group task and process
- Main focus of group is task
Planning
Embleton Hall Calgary Cambridge model for one/one teaching GSF to approach
Jonathon Silverman to resource
June 14th meeting Main focus peer appraisal
Peer Appraisal
Where are we now?
- Practices who have done it Cons/Bondgate Roth/Belford
What worked well
- Cohesive
- Successes and challenges identified
- Non threatening
- Good for GPR
- Feedback helpful/ supportive
- Sharing of ideas/ methods
- Seeing other practices useful
What could have been different?
- Better structure e.g. timetabling, paperwork
- ?Purpose
- Non objective
Where would we like to be?
- Regular/timetabled
- Formalised documents (? Personal ?Group ?NVTS)
- Agreed structure
- Different pairs each time
- Evaluated
- Written up/ published
- Shared with trainers group/ peer support
- ?Include video of teaching
- Done at mid-point
- ?Timetabled to coincide with VTS sessions
How are we going to get there?
- Use current T2D2 structure for this 6/12
- Teaching on one/one video teaching hopefully in May
- Each pair to have done appraisal before June meeting so that lessons can
be learned and a structure worked on then.
- Some potential agenda items for then
- Structure
- Timetabling
- Documents
- Feeding back
- ?Formalise with NVTS
- Agreed pairs
- Gary/Alan
- Chris/Chris
- Stuart/Charles
- Gordon/Brad
- Dave/Mike Guy
Other Business
- Brad reported plans to launch the CD-ROM commercially at Trainers
Conference. Brad will decide how any revenue will be used.
- NHS Plan. Individuals to reply
- New Training Contract. Trainers will now be expected to provide at least 4
sessions a year of central training.
- Hospital Visits. The success of the local, and scheme wide, visits was
reported by GSF.2 new Phase 2 jobs have been identified at AGH as a
result.
- Research Letter. We have been approached to become involved with a project
to ascertain what a GPR need in the first 6/12 of practice. It was felt by
the group that we currently had a substantial agenda and that this project
would be deferred meantime.
On the minutes page.
Brad Cheek: December 28, 2006