Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy

The next Wakefield GP District TARGET event is on Wednesday 25th April, 2018 from 1.00 - 5.00 pm. There is food available from 12 noon. The title of the event is 'An Update' and we have organised a programme that we hope everyone will find absolutely fascinating. We have a couple of key note presentations, one on AF and Anticoagulation and other on 'The State of the CCG'. There are seven workshops about updates from Connexus, Pregablin Abuse, Palliative Care, Prescribing, New Obesity Pathways, Sepsis and CQC and Wakefield Healthy Hearts. We will be using Slido again so bring your smart phone or tablet. The event number to join is B179. Unfortunately Nadim won't be chairing but we do have a really great caption competition with a bottle of fizzy for winning caption. As a taster we are after a caption to go with this picture: What did Jo Webster say when say pulled out the winning raffle ticket?

End of Term Progress Report Student Name: A Cademy Date: 22 3 18 Workforce Planning Grade Effort Comments C+ A+ Great exam result in Workforce Data (consistently gets nearly 100% completion), have appointed a leadership fellow ( who does not start till September) but let down by virtually no progress in activity data and modeling. A Cademy made a great effort in getting every practice, except one (and we know who you are…) to sign a data sharing agreement but in the end all that effort came to nought. In the next year A Cademy should continue the excellent performance in Workforce Data collection but should turn the effort into output in the difficult subject of Activity Modelling. Growing Talent and Resilience Grade Effort Comments A A Great project work in writing an Education and Training Framework and Wakefield ...

Access to career opportunities is limited for some young people in the Wakefield District. There is national programme to increase the number the number of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in higher education by 2020. The programme is called NCOP – National Collaborative Outreach Programme and in West Yorkshire the programme is a collaboration of Higher Education Institutes in Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield. Schools in Wakefield District have been targeted by Go Higher, West Yorkshire and one of their programmes is called Go Higher in Healthcare . This initiative hopes to increase the numbers of students progressing into healthcare sectors that reflect the wider community, correcting under-representations related to social background, gender, ethnicity, age and disability. This initiative is an expansion of a programme started by the University of Leeds in 2014, funded by Health Education England and the Royal College of General Practitioners (Widening Participa...

|Rant warning on Health Education England have a workforce strategy out for consultation at the moment. The document is titled ‘Facing the Facts, Shaping the Future – a draft health and care workforce strategy for England to 2027’. The strategy and links can be found here https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/workforce-strategy . The document contains a detailed description of current workforce numbers and challenges mixed in with government propaganda and policy initiatives. The document is 141 pages long and the section about wider primary care is just over a mere two pages. The document starts by acknowledging that data from NHS Digital shows that the GP head count has now fallen to 2012 levels (and conveniently forgets that if you turn these into full time equivalents the number of FTE GPs is at 2004 levels!). There is lots of information about increasing workload and pressure from demographics in secondary care but nothing about workload pressures in general practice. They could ...

Not sure if you can recall but during the summer and early autumn the Academy worked hard to promote WRaPT. WRaPT is a workforce repository tool that supports the collection and analysis of workforce and activity data across multiple organisations. We hoped to use it to model the workforce across and within organization’s and use it to model the effect of various scenarios associated with the initiatives of the New Model of Care Vanguard. The Academy went to every Federation to discuss WRaPT and then we spent a lot of time getting consent from every practice (except one) to share workforce and activity data. The short answer to what happened to WRaPT is not a lot! But there has been work around sharing what the workforce across the health economy is and you can read the summary document of the Connecting Care Wakefield Workforce Transformation Strategy here:  https://connectingcarewakefield.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/CC-Strategy-Workforce-Summary-v2b.pdf By the time we...