This course describes the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) requirements to report accidents and incidents in accordance with the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR).
Adminstrative Triage using digital tools in General Practice
This short course provides an overview of the role and competencies of the care navigator and the principles of care navigation within general practice.
This informative course is designed for new or aspiring managers in general practice. The course covers a range of management styles and describes the qualities of a good manager. It also includes information on visions and values.
Appreciative inquiry is practical. Not something you can learn in a couple of hours. You have to do it as much as reading about it. Thinking about how we are using Appreciative Inquiry and how it is influencing our thoughts and feelings will help us develop, embed, and share the practice.
This session will highlight the fundamental role of every single person within the healthcare system in building a positive, supportive culture, and offer guidance on the measures that individuals can take to bring about positive cultural change.
This short course is designed to improve your knowledge of the issue of bullying and harassment in the workplace. This course will also update your awareness of complying with current legislation and its application within your organisation.
This course will help you to understand the eight Caldicott principles and how they link to the need to maintain confidentiality within general practice.
Learn how you can contribute and play your part in shaping a low carbon NHS that delivers exceptional care while safeguarding the health of future generations.
Non-clinical staff working in general practice have seen their roles expand and they can be called upon to act as care navigators and also to manage incoming correspondence. This, in turn, frees up clinical staff to focus on seeing patients by reducing their administrative workload, but also ensures that patients receive the appropriate level of care when and where they need it. This masterclass covers both care navigation and correspondence management. Part 1 focuses on care navigation and Part 2 on correspondence management. Each of the nine modules, which make up the two masterclasses, includes a short quiz to reinforce learning.
Care Navigation and Correspondence Management Masterclass - Part Two
Non-clinical staff in general practice have seen their roles expand and they can be called upon to act as care navigators and also to manage incoming correspondence. This, in turn, frees up clinical staff to focus on seeing patients by reducing their administrative workload but also ensures that patients receive the appropriate level of care when they need it and where they need it. This second masterclass covers Correspondence Management and, like the first part, each module has a quiz at the end to reinforce learning.
In all sectors, change is widely encountered and it is said that we are in a constant state of change. Healthcare is constantly evolving and there is a need to ensure that change is managed correctly if the desired objectives are to be achieved. This masterclass enables the learner to understand what change management is, the principles of change management, the models used to effect change, how to overcome resistance to change, and the need for continuous improvement.
The programme outlines the fundamentals of cleaning to everyone within the NHS family, with the aim of reducing the risks of cross-infection during the care of our patients, and promoting confidence in our patients and service users in continuing to access NHS services.
This module will help you, as a manager, identify and understand some of the principles and processes of successful coaching, and recognise how these can support your team and organisation.
This topic will explore the different approaches to ‘Collaboratives’ as ways of working together across organisations and sectors at Place, across Providers and at System level.
The aim of this training session is to improve patient experience, provide practices with training, support, and confidence to manage complaints appropriately, allow practices to identify areas for quality improvement, improve information available to patients on practice websites, improve collaborative working across BNSSG and reduce the number of formal complaints being received.
This short course aims to ensure that all staff working in general practice across the UK are aware of the correct complaints procedure, and their individual and collective roles in ensuring compliance with current legislation.
This course provides an overview and an understanding of staff and patient conflict, how to recognise it, and how to react to possible conflict in the workplace. The learner will also gain an understanding of, and be able to acknowledge, the need to support colleagues who have experienced conflict.
Consent is a crucial element of medical ethics, based on the concept of the person and the fundamental dignity and equality of human beings. This course explains the need for consent before any type of medical examination, test or treatment can be undertaken, how to obtain consent and how to assess capacity to consent.
This module explores the challenges facing primary care leaders in balancing the strategic and operational – working on the business as well as doing the business. It is designed to help you step back and reflect on how can you find the space and capacity to move out of the busyness into more virtuous cycles of improvement.
This modular course has been designed to introduce the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and to help practices effectively understand the CQC’s assessment process. The course is comprised of six modules. The first gives an introduction to the CQC, and the remaining modules will focus on the five key questions asked by the CQC.
CQC Masterclass: The Perfect Practice - Module 2: Key Question (Safe)
This course is comprised of six modules. The first module presented an introduction to the CQC and each of the subsequent modules will focus on one of the five key questions; starting with Safe.
CQC Masterclass: The Perfect Practice - Module 5: Key Question (Responsive)
This session is also aligned to the new data security standards that came out of the National Data Guardian’s 2016 review. It therefore meets the requirement for Level 1 staff training in data security.
Working in a GP practice or healthcare setting can mean managing difficult interactions with patients, relatives, or even colleagues — often in high-pressure situations. This practical workshop equips staff with the awareness and tools to handle challenging behaviour calmly and professionally.
This short course will help you understand what is meant by the term dementia, how it affects patients, and what you can do to support people living with dementia, in general practice.
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Mental Capacity Act (NI) 2016
This session has been developed to help receptionists working in community-based care settings to recognise the signs of potentially life-threatening conditions and escalate patients appropriately. Receptionists are often the first to engage with a patient with acute health needs and this session aims to provide information and guidance in initial patient assessment.
The DLS IT Skills Pathway provides access to quality assured, customisable learning and assessment products including basic digital literacy skills, a range of Microsoft Office products and a digital capability self assessment. It has been developed to provide an officially recognised route of learning for the whole workforce.
By the end of this short course, you will understand how to utilise your workstation correctly and subsequently minimise the risk of long-term musculoskeletal problems due to poor posture and the poor positioning of your equipment.
This course introduces Document Templates in EMIS Web. It is provided for staff who wish to develop skills to create and manage document templates effectively.
This course will provide the learner with a comprehensive overview of the duty of candour, the surrounding legislation, and a guide for its implementation within your organisation.
Aimed at managers, the focus of this module is for you to appraise your management skills and identify how you can make improvements. This should be a continual process and should include contingencies for staff changes, where there will be a period when the team dynamic is altered. In addition, staff retention will also be addressed.
This course describes how to effectively administer and oversee the NHS medical records management obligations of your organisation within the guidelines of the 'Records Management Code of Practice: A guide to the management of health and care records 2023'.
This programme aims to provide individuals with a basic understanding of why the use of a standardised language at the point of care across the NHS can provide benefits, as well as a basic introduction to SNOMED CT. It highlights the value of capturing structured data in an electronic health record versus just using narrative or unstructured eNotes.
A short accredited course for people who are new to general practice. The course covers a) what is general practice and how does it work within an integrated care system, b) how general practice is staffed, c) clinical patient record systems and how data is stored, and d) looking afer yourself and those around you.
The Environmentally Sustainable Healthcare (ESH) programme aims to provide the healthcare workforce with the knowledge and skills to deliver healthcare for financial, social and environmental sustainability.
This Fire Marshal course provides essential knowledge to help you confidently carry out your duties, whether your learning the role for the first time or refreshing your existing fire safety skills.
This course details NHS/HSC fraud and its components. It also describes NHS fraud prevention along with an overview of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA-UK).
This training is for everyone wherever they work in healthcare and explains in a clear and consistent way what speaking up is and its importance in creating an environment in which people are supported to deliver their best. It will help you understand the vital role you can play and the support available to encourage a healthy speaking up culture for the benefit of patients and workers.
An interactive elearning programme providing general practice teams with the evidence, current best practice, and resources to support access improvements that benefit all patients and staff.
For the first time we have all 4 generations - BABY BOOMERS, GENERATION X, GENERATION Y and MILLENNIALS - in the workplace at the same time. This brings a wealth of diversity in motivations, values, perceptions and understanding. It may also bring some challenges as we may struggle to understand why some things appear important to someone else and not to another.
This module will help you to identify & understand some of the principles & approaches to successfully acknowledge & recognise the generational differences in Values, Perceptions & Motivations.
GP2GP Part 1 – filing records and handling degrades
This module has been designed to help line managers working across the NHS in England to have positive and effective conversations with staff. It highlights good and bad practice for line managers regarding conversations on annual appraisals, pay step conversations and general supervisory meetings.
This elearning programme has been developed to support champions in understanding their role. The session is intended for all appointed Health and Wellbeing Champions to complete.
This e-learning module is aimed at anyone who would like to be able to deliver feedback to other people in an effective way.
It may be particularly useful for managers of individuals and teams who play a key role in developing others.
The number of missed appointments across the NHS and its primary care organisations is a source of great frustration to many practice managers, staff and clinicians. The purpose of this short course is to help learners consider simple, easy and hassle-free approaches that may help to reduce the Did Not Attend (DNA) rates within their practices.
Action learning sets (ALS) are practical. Not something you can learn in a couple of hours. You have to take part in them as much as/more than reading about them. But our practice always improves with reflection. Thinking about how we are using ALS and how this is influencing our thoughts and feelings will help us develop, embed, and share the practice.
This is the first stage in the employee life cycle and top-quality recruitment is vital not just to ensure that you get the best possible candidates for your roles but to also promote your practice as an employer of choice.