Online Dermoscopy Education

From Thursday 20 January through Thursday 30 July

Do you want to improve your management of skin lesions? Are you aware that your practice has a dermatoscope but you haven’t had the training to use it?

If so, we’re sure you’ll be pleased to hear that: in 2022, there will be two further blocks of dermoscopy training delivered by Dr. Chin Whybrew, an experienced GP with a passion for primary care dermatology, and dermoscopy in particular.

These sessions are FREE to attend and open to any primary care clinician who assesses skin lesions. You are welcome to attend any session more than once, but please note that each course consists of three half-day sessions, and it is important that you attend them in order unless you have participated in dermoscopy training before.

For those clinicians who have attended the course previously, you are very welcome to do so again, but there is a “refresher session” available.

For more information, please expand the boxes below.

Online Dermoscopy for Beginners Part 1

How dermoscopy works and practical tips, including how to get good dermoscopy photos and troubleshooting tips
A practical demonstration of the Heine DELTAone, including how to turn it on, focus it, charge it, clean it, etc.
Interpretation of dermoscopic structures in benign lesions (seb K, angiomas, warts, dermatofibromas, sebaceous hyperplasia, comedones), BCCs and melanomas (and how this always needs to be taken in clinical context)
How to put it all together into a simple algorithm
Other uses of dermoscopy in primary care

Dates:

Thursday 20 January | 14.00 – 17.30
Thursday 7 April | 14.00 – 17.30

Online Dermoscopy for Beginners Part 2

This is a follow-up session from Part 1, and we recommend you get used to handling the scope for several weeks in between sessions.

Recap of how to use the scope, benign lesions, and BCCs
Actinic keratosis, Bowens, and SCC
Special sites – palms and soles, faces
More about naevi and melanomas
More BCCs including pigmented and superficial BCCs

Dates:

Thursday 10 February | 14.00 – 17.30
Thursday 26 May | 14.00 – 17.30

Online Dermoscopy for Not-So-Beginners Part 3

This is aimed at people who are reasonably confident using a dermatoscope and have done the first two parts of the three-part course.

Troubleshooting tips, and photography techniques
Recap of commonly-seen lesions in primary care
The “chaos and clues” algorithm for pigmented lesions
“Prediction without pigment” for non-pigmented lesions

Dates:

Thursday 24 March | 14.00 – 17.30
Thursday 30 June | 14.00 – 17.30

Dermoscopy Refresher

For anyone who has completed the three-part course, this is a short session of interactive quizzes, top tips, and troubleshooting, and an opportunity to ask any outstanding questions you may have.

It will be mostly case-based, with lots of opportunity for discussion.

Dates:

Wednesday 6 April | 19.00 – 20.30
Further dates TBC

To register your interest in joining, please click the button below to access the sign-up form.

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BNSSG GP Cancer Lead Forum [27.01.22]

On Thursday 27 January

From 12.30 – 14.00 on Thursday 27 January, Dr. Glenda Beard (Macmillan GP, BNSSG CCG) and Georgia Diebel (Facilitator, Cancer Research UK) invite GP Cancer Leads, and other interested parties, to join them for another forum. As we enter the final quarter of this earlier diagnosis QOF QI year, Glenda and Georgia will deliver key topic updates, including on:

Reporting process for QOF and DES
Data updates and where to access
Targeted lung health checks project
COVID and ‘missing cancers’ insights

Additionally, please note for your team: dates are being planned early in the new year for GP colleagues to sign up to NB medical clinical update dates funded by the CCG.

To register your interest in joining, please click the button below to access the sign-up form.

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October / November 2021 Newsletter

October / November
2021 Newsletter

Published on Tuesday 9 November, 2021

MDT Training

Autumn Skin Cancer Webinar Series

NEW: Radiological Imaging Protocol Survey

NEW: Radiological Imaging Protocol Webinar

NEW: PCN Advanced Practice Leads Meeting

NEW: Clinical Leadership Coaching and Advisory Service (CLCAS)

Deprescribing Dependence-Forming Medicines Meds-Op Training

NEW: GatewayC Webinar: Non-Site Specific Symptoms

Approach to Initiation of Medicines Meds-Op Training

NEW: Bitesize Coaching for Frontline Leaders & Managers

GP Events

Buddy Meetings for return-to-work GPs

Career Opportunities

NEW: Adviser for RCGP Primary Care Development Programme

NEW: Physician Associate Primary Care Development Lead

NEW: Social Care Nursing Ambassador

Literature

NEW: GP Toolkit

NEW: Population Health Digital Toolkit

Videos

NEW: Pain Management Overview Meds-Op Webinar

NEW: Hand & Wrist Pathologies - Invitation to Education

NEW: Hips & SDM - Invitation to Education

NEW: PCN Advanced Practice Leads Meeting

Provided by The ACP Forum & BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 17 November | 12.30 – 13.30
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to advanced clinical practitioners

The world of advanced practice is undergoing dramatic shifts, both locally and nationally; but that doesn’t mean you can’t soar!

To support practices with these changes, BNSSG Training Hub’s ACP Lead and chair of The ACP Forum, Kerri Magnus, will be running PCN Advanced Practice Leads Meetings monthly.

These meetings will focus on strategic issues, such as funding and career pathways, acting as a portal through which to disseminate new information and updates around advanced practice. They will also support attendees in developing as leaders, providing an opportunity to discuss support needed.

Attendees should be:

Advanced practitioners willing to circulate information to the rest of the advanced practice workforce in their PCN
Able to attend monthly meetings

Meetings will be held on alternating Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 11.00 – 12.00. The first will be on Wednesday 10 November, to discuss the new radiological protocol for first contact, enhanced, and advanced practitioners, and provide an introduction to the Health Education England (HEE) Advanced Practice Demand Survey, due to come around in March 2022.

To register your interest or nominate a colleague, please contact Kerri at [email protected].

Contact Kerri

Autumn Skin Cancer Webinar Series

Provided by Almirall and Dermal Topical Innovation
Running on Wednesday 10 November | 19.30 – 20.30 & Wednesday 1 December | 19.30 – 20.30
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

This webinar series covers a range of skin lesions, virtually and for FREE via Zoom. There are three webinars in total, as follows:

#1: Benign Lesions
Delivered by Dr. Tony Downs (Consultant Dermatologist, Exeter Medical) on Thursday 7 October, this webinar is now available to watch on demand. To do so, please click here.
#2: Pre-malignant Lesions
To be delivered by Dr. Sandy Anderson (Associate Specialist, Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust) on Wednesday 10 November, this webinar will run from 19.30 – 20.30. Sign up here.
#3: Malignant Lesions
To be delivered by Dr. Toby Chave (Consultant Dermatologist, Derriford Hospital) on Wednesday 1 December, this webinar will also run from 19.30 – 20.30. Sign up here.

For further information, please use the button below to contact Almirall at [email protected].

Contact Almirall

NEW: Bitesize Coaching for Frontline Leaders & Managers

Provided by NHS Leadership Academy
Runs in 45-minute windows, on a date of your choosing
Held via virtual consultation or telephone call
Open to frontline leaders, senior staff, and managers

In response to the additional challenges this winter, the NHS Leadership Academy are pleased to introduce their new, bite-sized coaching offer to support frontline leaders and managers across the South West.

The Academy is working with a team of professional coaches to provide focused, short-term support in the form of a 45-minute virtual or telephone coaching session. These are designed to offer a safe space in which frontline leaders and managers can reflect on and explore their concerns, needs, and challenges in a constructive way.

For more information, please use the button below to visit the relevant page.

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NEW: Radiological Imaging Protocol Survey

Provided by North Bristol Trust (NBT), University Hospitals Bristol & Weston Trust (UHBW), Avon LMC, & BNSSG Training Hub
Open to nurses, pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, and podiatrists

The new protocol for imaging requesting has been designed in collaboration by North Bristol Trust (NBT), University Hospitals Bristol & Weston (UHBW), Avon Local Medical Committee (ALMC), and BNSSG Training Hub.

This protocol will support nurses, paramedics, pharmacists, physiotherapists, and podiatrists employed in general practice / primary care networks (PCNs) in BNSSG to request radiological imaging appropriate to their level and scope of practice, and capability, as set out in the national HEE educational frameworks.

To make the onboarding process as smooth as possible, a survey has been established to acquire baseline information ahead of time.

If you are a nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapist, paramedic, or podiatrist currently requesting imaging / wishing to request imaging as part of your employed role, please complete this survey in full.

Not doing so may affect requesting rights. To access the survey, please use the button below.

Complete Survey

NEW: Radiological Imaging Protocol Webinar

Provided by North Bristol Trust (NBT), University Hospitals Bristol & Weston Trust (UHBW), Avon LMC, & BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Tuesday 16 November | 18.30 – 19.30
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to all primary care staff and employers

To coincide with the launch of the new protocol for imaging requesting, this FREE webinar will explore the protocol itself and address these complementary support tools:

Audit tool
Competency assessment tool
Excel onboarding spreadsheet for PCNs / practices
Process diagram

(This webinar will not act as IRMER teaching, but dates for the ‘initial IRMER course’ will be provided for those who’ve not completed any teaching before.)

Attendees are encouraged to bring along any questions they may have.

To join the webinar, please use the button below to join the session on the day.

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Approach to Initiation of Medicines
Meds-Op Training

Provided by BNSSG CCG and BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Thursday 16 December | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team and BNSSG Training Hub, this is the latest webinar in a programme of polypharmacy and antimicrobial stewardship training set to run from September into the New Year. All sessions will be entirely virtual and are open to all partners across health and care in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Attendance is completely FREE, irrespective of your work role or organisation.

This webinar will run from 12.30 – 14.00 on Thursday 16 December. To be delivered by Lelly Oboh (Consultant Pharmacist), it will explore the run-up to the initiation of medicines.

To register your space, please click the first button below to access the sign-up form.

For more information on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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NEW: Clinical Leadership Coaching and Advisory Service (CLCAS)

Provided by NHS Leadership Academy
Information session running on Thursday 18 November | 14.00 – 15.00
Held virtually
Open to clinical leaders aspiring to an executive role

Provided by NHS Leadership Academy, this service is for clinical leaders working at or near the top of their profession and aiming for director-level senior leadership roles. It will coach them, enabling greater understanding of their career path and providing the tools and resources required to secure an executive role.

Participants will receive a minimum of four coaching sessions over a 12-month period, as well as access to a careers and resource portal featuring a vast suite of e-Learning courses, videos, and articles.

An informal drop-in session further exploring this opportunity will be held on Thursday 18 November, from 14.00 – 15.00.

To register your interest in the course, the information session, or to ask any questions, please contact [email protected].

Contact the Leadership Academy

NEW: Adviser for RCGP Primary Care Development Programme

Provided by Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)
Application window closes on Monday 15 November
Open to GPs

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is inviting applications from GPs to join their primary care development (CPD) programme, as advisers.

PCD is the college’s successful general practice consultancy, in operation since 2014, which provides a wide range of services – from supporting practices to meet CQC inspection requirements, to PCN workforce development.

Successful applicants will support the programme via scoping visits, development of action plans, provision of peer support, and facilitating relationships with local providers. The role consists of approximately two half-day sessions per week, with £227 of remuneration per session.

For more information on this post, and to apply, please use the button below.

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NEW: Social Care Nursing Ambassador

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Application window closes on Tuesday 16 November
Open vacancy

We have an exciting opportunity for a Social Care Nursing Ambassador to join us! We wish to employ or second* a motivated, enthusiastic individual who can take a lead in developing and maintaining professional, meaningful, collaborative engagement between social care and health sector nurses.

The successful applicant will work closely with our nursing and AHP team members. The role will be ideal for someone passionate about developing parity of esteem for social care nurses, and engage in the following activities:

To create a network within Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire to support nurse retention within the social care sector
To promote care worker and social care-based nurse education and training
To provide expert support and advice to BNSSG primary care networks (PCNs) on working with social care nurses, in order to support integrated care provider development

The role is offered at 15 hours per week, with flexible working available. The successful applicant will need to work well independently, managing changing demands and priorities, and also be able to work effectively as part of a small, busy team, in collaboration with various organisations.

* To undertake this role as a secondment, you will need the support of your line manager.

For more information, please use the button below to access NHS Jobs.

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NEW: Physician Associate Primary Care Development Lead

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Application window closes on Sunday 14 November
Open vacancy

We have an exciting opportunity for a Primary Care Development Lead for Physician Associates (PAs) to join our team! We are looking to employ or second* a motivated, enthusiastic individual who can support the Training Hub by:

Taking a lead in developing and maintaining professional, meaningful, collaborative engagement between PAs in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire
Creating a vibrant and meaningful PA network within the area, supporting PA development
Mentoring BNSSG-based PAs undertaking preceptorships
Leading the provision of support and advice to BNSSG primary care networks on the supervision and educational requirements of PAs

Ideally, we would like to employ someone from a clinical background with a good understanding of the role of the physician associate in general practice.

The role is offered at 7.5 hours per week, with flexible working available. The successful applicant will need to work well independently, managing changing demands and priorities, and also be able to work effectively as part of a small, busy team, in collaboration with various organisations.

* To undertake this role as a secondment, you will need the support of your line manager.

For more information, please use the button below to access NHS Jobs.

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NEW: GatewayC Webinar: Non-Site Specific Symptoms

Provided by GatewayC
Running on Wednesday 24 November | 13.00 – 14.00
Held virtually
Open to any and all interested parties

This FREE webinar, organised by GatewayC, will refresh your understanding of how to deal with non-site specific symptoms of cancer. Both Dr. Andrew Millar (Consultant Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist) and Professor Willie Hamilton (Professor of Primary Care Diagnostics) will be on-hand to discuss, and to answer your questions.

To register a space, please register via the button below.

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NEW: Hot Topics Clinic - Diagnostic Tests

Provided by NB Medical Education & Cancer Research UK
Running on Tuesday 9 November | 20.00 – 21.00
Held virtually
Open to any and all interested parties

This webinar will examine diagnostic tests and safety netting, with updates on symptomatic FIT and CA125 primary care tests, and focus on the reliability and sequencing of tests and safety netting routine referrals.

Dr. Garth Funston (Clinical Research Associate) will be present to discuss ovarian cancer and his latest research on CA125 test results. He is well-versed in the latest research and well-placed to share his thoughts / answer your questions.

To register a space, please register via the button below.

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NEW: GP Toolkit

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub, with signposts to assorted partners’ resources

Our new GP Toolkit is now available; pulled together by one of our fellows, Dr. Alice Blackwell, the toolkit is intended as a career opportunities and resources hub for GPs working in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.

It provides signposts to resources in the following categories:

Leadership
Clinical, Mentoring, & Supervision Skills
Portfolio Career Opportunities
Well-Being Resources
And more…

To access this page, please look under ‘Careers’ on the navigation bar above, or use the button below.

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NEW: Population Health Digital Toolkit

Provided by Health Education England (HEE)
Open to anyone registered on e-Learning for Health (e-LfH)

HEE’s Population Health Digital Toolkit is now available on the e-Learning for Health platform. The toolkit features free learning and resources, designed to help organisations apply population health approaches to improve outcomes and reduce health inequalities.

Anyone with an e-Learning for Health account can access the toolkit.

To access the toolkit, please click the button below.

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NEW: Cellulitis: Diagnosis & Management Webinar

Provided by BNSSG CCG
Running on Tuesday 21 September | 13.00 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

From 13.00 – 14.00 on Tuesday 21 September, BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team will be holding a cellulitis webinar — specifically, on how to diagnose a patient with it and how to help manage it. Dr. Martin Williams, Consultant Microbiologist at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, will be leading the webinar.

This will be the first of several webinars in an upcoming suite of antimicrobial stewardship training, to be delivered throughout this autumn — complementing the polypharmacy sessions that the Meds-Op Team is collaborating with BNSSG Training Hub on.

For more information, and to register your interest in this particular webinar, please contact [email protected].

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NEW: Pain Management Overview Webinar

Provided by BNSSG CCG and BNSSG Training Hub
Ran on Wednesday 13 October | 12.30 – 14.00
Appropriate for the whole MDT

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team and BNSSG Training Hub, this webinar is available to watch on demand. It is included in our Video Library (please click here), but you can watch it below, too.

It was delivered by Krisztina Kenesy (Consultant Anaesthetics / Pain Medicine).

NEW: Hand & Wrist Pathologies - Invitation to Education

Provided by BNSSG CCG
Ran on Wednesday 22 September

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s MSK Team, this webinar is available to watch on demand. It is included in our Video Library (please click here), but you can watch it below, too.

It was delivered by Rouin Amirfeyz (Consultant Hand & Elbow Surgeon, UHBW).

NEW: Hips & SDM - Invitation to Education

Provided by BNSSG CCG
Ran on Wednesday 22 September

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s MSK Team, this webinar is available to watch on demand. It is included in our Video Library (please click here), but you can watch it below, too.

It was delivered by Niall Sullivan (Consultant T&O Surgeon, UHBW / NBT), Simon Bick (Orthopaedic Consultant, NBT), and Anthony Ward (Orthopaedic Consultant, NBT).

Deprescribing Dependence-Forming Medicines
Meds-Op Training

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Tuesday 23 November | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team and BNSSG Training Hub, this is the fourth webinar in a programme of polypharmacy and antimicrobial stewardship training set to run from September through December. All sessions will be entirely virtual and are open to all partners across health and care in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Attendance is completely FREE, irrespective of your work role or organisation.

This webinar will run from 12.30 – 14.00 on Tuesday 23 November. To be delivered by Dr. Ben Watson (Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist, Bristol ROADS Specialist Advisory Service, AWP), it will include:

Discussions on deprescribing gabapentinoids, benzodiazepines, and opiates
Approaches to consider when deprescribing in patients on multiple pain medications
A case study discussions to highlight different approaches

To register your space, please click the first button below to access the sign-up form.

For more infomation on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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Buddy Meetings for return-to-work GPs

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 24 November | 20.00 – 21.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to GPs returning to work after a short career break

The next of BNSSG Training Hub’s GP Buddy Meetings is this Wednesday 24 November, from 20.00 – 21.00. These meetings, arranged by one of the Hub’s GP Fellows, Dr. Pamela Curtis, offer a safe space for GPs returning to work after a short career break (due to parental leave, ill health, or caring responsibilities).

This is an opportunity in which to discuss the things that matter to you – be it clinical work, career goals, or your personal well-being – and in a format of your choosing (as a ‘study group, via action learning sets, etc.). Increase your confidence, and support colleagues in a similar boat.

To register for the next GP Buddy Meeting, please complete the application form.

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Is remote consulting compatible with personalised care or does something have to give?

In a new report commissioned by the NHS Personalised Care Institute, and conducted by researchers from the National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration West (NIHR ARC West) and the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), the relationship between personalised care and remote consulting is examined. Both are at the forefront of NHS England’s agenda, but the distance between clinician and patient afforded by remote consulting is not necessarily conducive to creating health plans jointly them.

In addressing this potential conflict, researchers sought to answer the following questions:

How does remote consultation affect access to healthcare and quality of care?
Is remote healthcare as good as face-to-face?
When are remote consultations not suitable?
Can personalised care be delivered remotely?

In short, the report concludes that remote consultations are not inherently good or bad, with their effectivity being dependent on the patient’s needs, life stage, and finances. Health professionals are advised to think carefully about how to use remote consultations, and for what purpose, and to enable patients in having a choice about how their consulted.

For the full article, please use the button below to access the Centre for Academic Primary Care’s site.

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Cancer Screening Awareness Session

On Thursday 7 October

From 12.45 – 14.00 on Thursday 7 October, Dr. Glenda Beard (Macmillan GP Cancer Lead), Georgia Diebel, and Trudi Smith (both Cancer Research UK Facilitators) will be delivering an information session on cancer screening for practices in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.

The session is open to the whole practice team, including admin, reception, IT, secretaries, HCAs, social prescribing link workers (SPLWs), practice managers, and PCN project managers. The whole practice team can make changes that are patient-facing, but also systems- and processes-facing. A collective, ‘community of practice‘ approach is encouraged.

To reserve your place, please click the button below.

Aims of the session

This session will:

Update participants about cancer screening
Increase knowledge of and confidence in working with your team to increase screening participation
Consider how to address barriers to screening uptake

Topics to include

This session will cover:

Cancer info and cancer facts
Lifestyle and cancer prevention
National Cancer Screening Programmes
Local uptake and barriers to participation
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September 2021 Newsletter

Published on Tuesday 7 September, 2021

MDT Training

HEE FCP (Paramedic) Roadmap Stage 1 Webinar

NEW: Cancer Screening Hot Topics Clinic

NEW: HEE Star Training

Shared Decision Making Meds-Op Training

NEW: Cellulitis: Diagnosis & Management Webinar

PCN Cancer Lead GP Forum

Preparing for GP Partnership

NEW: General Practice Teaching Workshops

NEW: Pain Management Overview Meds-Op Training

NEW: Approach to Long-Term Conditions Review and Deprescribing Meds-Op Training

Deprescribing Dependence Forming Medicines Meds-Op Training

GP Events

GP Return to Work Refresher Course

Buddy Meetings for return-to-work GPs

Literature

Is remote consulting compatible with personalised care...

HEE FCP (Paramedic) Roadmap Stage 1 Webinar

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Tuesday 14 September | 19.00 – 20.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

BNSSG Training Hub will be delivering a FREE, virtual webinar on the HEE FCP (Paramedic) Roadmap to Practice this coming Tuesday 14 September, from 19.00 – 20.00. Facilitating will be Lily Dixon, the Training Hub’s Paramedic Lead; Kerri Magnus, Advanced Practice Lead; and Rachel Butt, qualified HEE Roadmap Supervisor.

We are aware of the uncertainty around the HEE Roadmap, so we hope that – in sharing the learning we’ve accrued with you and your colleagues – we can help to clarify things, both for paramedics and supervisors, be they AHPs, GPs, or GPNs. To this end, Lily has mapped herself against stage 1 of the HEE Roadmap and designed her PDP against stage 2; this, in combination with her responses to the knowledge, skills, and attributes (KS&A) section, will be discussed and examined for examples of potential evidence for the portfolio route. There will be time to answer your questions, too, so do bring them along.

If this webinar is relevant and of interest to you, do come along – there’s no limit on numbers, so feel free to invite any colleagues, too.

For further information, please use the button below to access the sign-up form or contact Kerri at [email protected].

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NEW: Cancer Screening Hot Topics Clinic

Provided by NB Medical Education
Running on Tuesday 14 September | 20.00 – 21.00
Held virtually
Open to any and all interested parties

On Tuesday 14 September, NB Medical Education will be holding the second session of their four-part Cancer Webinar Series, supported by Cancer Research UK. The session will focus on cancer screening — are you aware of the changes in the UK’s bowel and cervical cancer screening programmes? Are you wondering how screening uptake can be improved?

Running from 20.00 – 21.00, this interactive hour-long session will bring you up to speed and explore how best to get patients further involved.

Attendance will provide 1 CPD credit and a downloadable certificate.

To book on, please register on NB Medical Education’s site and complete the application form.

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GP Return to Work Refresher Course

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Thursday 11 November | 9.00 – 16.00
Held via Zoom
Open to GPs returning to work from a short career break (due to parental leave, sick leave, caring responsibilities, etc.)

BNSSG Training Hub’s FREE one-day course for GPs returning to clinical work after a prolonged absence (due to parental leave or ill health, as examples) returns this November!

On Thursday 11 November, returning GPs in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire can boost their confidence with sessions covering:

Time management
The “new” appraisal process
Consultation skills
Useful clinical updates
Signposts to resources

An insightful career coach will be on-hand to guide attendees, and there will be plenty of scope to network with GPs in a similar position.

If you are in contact with any GPs currently on leave and away from their NHS.net accounts, please do relay information about this course to them.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

To reserve your space, please complete the sign-up form.

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NEW: HEE Star Training

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Thursday 16 September | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

With an eye to the NHS Long-Term Plan’s goals, the HEE National Workforce Transformation team are offering to train primary care colleagues in BNSSG to use the HEE Star. The Star has been used by the team to address workforce challenges and define innovative workforce solutions across the country, as outlined in the videos linked below:

Overview of HEE Star (2 minutes) | Click here to watch
Accelerating Workforce Redesign (2 minutes) | Click here to watch

HEE is confident that increased use of the HEE Star model throughout primary care will support delivery of both integrated working and new roles. This training is available in two parts: Level 1 is an introductory webinar, and Level 2 – aimed at those experienced with facilitating workforce change or required to by their role – consists of two sessions followed by a HEE Star workshop focused on local primary care workforce challenges. Both levels are available this September.

Further information on both Levels 1 and 2 can be found in this document, produced by HEE.

If you or a colleague join either level of the HEE Star Training, the Training Hub requests that you contact us, too, at [email protected]. In your message, please confirm:

Your name
Your PCN’s name
Which level of training you’re interested in

To book on for the Level 1 webinar, please complete the booking form via the button below.

To express interest in the Level 2 training, please send a message to [email protected].

Sign up for Level 1 webinar

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Shared Decision Making Meds-Op Training

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Thursday 16 September | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team and BNSSG Training Hub, this is the first webinar in a programme of polypharmacy and antimicrobial stewardship training set to run from September through December. All sessions will be entirely virtual and are open to all partners across health and care in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Attendance is completely FREE, irrespective of your work role or organisation.

This webinar will run from 12.30 – 14.00 on Thursday 16^th September. To be delivered by Dr. Shaba Nabi (Clinical Lead for Prescribing, BNSSG CCG), it will cover shared decision making and explore the importance of personalised care in medicines optimisation. Dr. Nabi is very well-versed in the rationale behind and implementation of shared decision making, so this is sure to be an insightful session. A recording will be made available following delivery.

Dr. Nabi will be responding to questions submitted by you, so be sure to circulate word of this webinar to your colleagues, and join us on the day.

To register your space, please click the first button below to access the sign-up form.

For more infomation on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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PCN Cancer Lead GP Forum

Provided by Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK
Running on Thursday 23 September | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

Following on from their previous, highly-productive PCN Cancer Lead GP Forums, you are invited to join Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK’s next forum on Thursday 23 September, from 12.30 – 14.00.

The forum runs three times a year to update GPs on cancer-related topics, including the PCN DES / QOF, and to provide a space in which to share successes and discuss challenges.

Practices and primary care networks are invited to nominate a GP as their Cancer Lead, but all other practice colleagues are welcome to attend.

To register a space, please complete the short application form.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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NEW: Cellulitis: Diagnosis & Management Webinar

Provided by BNSSG CCG
Running on Tuesday 21 September | 13.00 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

For more information, and to register your interest in this particular webinar, please contact [email protected].

Contact the Meds-Op Team

Preparing for GP Partnership

Provided by PCC and BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 29 September | 14.00 – 17.00
Held virtually
Open to anyone interested in becoming a GP partner (GPs, GPNs, AHPs, etc.)

Please note: only a handful of spaces remain open — apply soon to avoid disappointment.

Running from 14.00 – 17.00 on Wednesday 29 September, this virtual session will provide an overview of partnership considerations — and of how to prepare for becoming a general practice partner. It can be a daunting transition, after all, and it is essential to fully understand the responsibilities and liabilities of becoming a partner.

The aims for this session are:

To explore what it means to be a partner
To consider what you need to take into account
To reflect on how to prepare yourself
To understand what development you might need

For more information on what this training will cover, please click here.

To register your space, please click the button below to access the sign-up form.

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NEW: General Practice Teaching Workshops

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Running from Tuesday 5 October to Thursday 14 October | 14.00 – 17.30 each session
Held virtually
Open to GPs, GPNs, and ANPs

BNSSG Training Hub has arranged for a series of online workshops to be run this October, exploring the themes of Well-Being, Shared Decision Making, and Risk Management.

Organised by Dr. Alice Blackwell, one of the Hub’s GP Fellows, these workshops are principally aimed at newly-qualified GPs, GPNs, and ANPs, but admission is open to all individuals in these professions across BNSSG.

For further information on each of the workshops, please click here to download the briefs for each of them.

Alternatively, use the button below to visit this opportunity’s web page.

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NEW: Pain Management Overview

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 13 October | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team and BNSSG Training Hub, this is the second webinar in a programme of polypharmacy and antimicrobial stewardship training set to run from September through December. All sessions will be entirely virtual and are open to all partners across health and care in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Attendance is completely FREE, irrespective of your work role or organisation.

This webinar will run from 12.30 – 14.00 on Wednesday 13 October. To be delivered by Krisztina Kenesy (Consultant Anaesthetics / Pain Medicine), it will provide an overview of the relationship between pain management and polypharmacy.

To register your space, please click the first button below to contact us at [email protected].

For more information on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

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More About the Programme

NEW: Approach to Long-Term Conditions Review and Deprescribing

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 20 October | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

Organised by BNSSG CCG’s Meds-Op Team and BNSSG Training Hub, this is the third webinar in a programme of polypharmacy and antimicrobial stewardship training set to run from September through December. All sessions will be entirely virtual and are open to all partners across health and care in Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire. Attendance is completely FREE, irrespective of your work role or organisation.

This webinar will run from 12.30 – 14.00 on Wednesday 20 October. To be delivered by Graham Price, it will examine how best to approach long-term conditions reviews and deprescribing.

To register your space, please click the first button below to access the sign-up form.

For more infomation on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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More About the Programme

NEW: Approach to Long-Term Conditions Review and Deprescribing Meds-Op Training

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 20 October | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

To register your space, please click the first button below to access the sign-up form.

For more infomation on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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More About the Programme

Deprescribing Dependence Forming Medicines Meds-Op Training

Provided by BNSSG CCG and Training Hub
Running on Tuesday 23 November | 12.30 – 14.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to any and all interested parties

This webinar will run from 12.30 – 14.00 on Tuesday 23 November. To be delivered by Dr. Ben Watson, it will explore how best to deprescribe dependence-forming medicines, such as gabapentinoids, benzodiazepines, and opiates.

To register your space, please click the first button below to access the sign-up form.

For more infomation on the programme as a whole, please click the second button below.

If you have any questions, please submit them to [email protected].

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Buddy Meetings for return-to-work GPs

Provided by BNSSG Training Hub
Running on Wednesday 29 September | 20.00 – 21.00
Held via Microsoft Teams
Open to GPs returning to work after a short career break

The next of BNSSG Training Hub’s GP Buddy Meetings is this Wednesday 29 September, from 20.00 – 21.00. These meetings, arranged by one of the Hub’s GP Fellows, Dr. Pamela Curtis, offer a safe space for GPs returning to work after a short career break (due to parental leave, ill health, or caring responsibilities).

To register for the next GP Buddy Meeting, please complete the application form.

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Is remote consulting compatible with personalised care or does something have to give?

In addressing this potential conflict, researchers sought to answer the following questions:

How does remote consultation affect access to healthcare and quality of care?
Is remote healthcare as good as face-to-face?
When are remote consultations not suitable?
Can personalised care be delivered remotely?

For the full article, please use the button below to access the Centre for Academic Primary Care’s site.

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Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer webinar

A new webinar from GatewayC

On Friday 11 December, GatewayC will facilitate a webinar on Diagnosing Ovarian Cancer, from 14.00 to 15.00.

Aimed at all members of the primary care workforce, this webinar will cover:

The challenges of diagnosing ovarian cancer in primary care
Common symptoms and presentations of ovarian cancer
Key risk factors
Essential primary care investigations

To register, please click the button below.

Register