Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy

The Academy is planning to support a Leadership and Management programme for Practice Managers in Wakefield. The programme will be provided by Wakefield District Housing and is for the provision of an Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) 5 award in Leadership and Management skills for Practice Managers. Wakefield District Housing is an approved provider for the ILM Award and the plan is to deliver the ILM 5 Award to between 12 and 16 Practice Managers in Wakefield. The programme includes 34 Guided Learning Hours over five days, tutorial support, assignment marking and feedback. The programme consists of two key units: Unit 1: Understanding the Management Role to Improve Performance. Three days of consecutive workshops followed by a written assignment. Unit 2: Assessing Your Own Leadership Capability and Performance. Two days of consecutive workshop following by a written assignment. The learning outcomes for the units are: Unit 1: Understanding th...

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Today in Wakefield: Between 7,000 and 9,000 people will have an appointment with either their GP or Practice nurse 560 people will be seen in extra appointments funded by the CCG 340 people will visit the Emergency Department at Pinderfields or Pontefract Over the last five years there has been a small increase in the total number of consultations in general practice: As you can see from the graph the increase in consultations has been mainly nurse consultations with a reduction in GP consultations. This data comes from searching for appointments on GP practice computer systems across Wakefield. The data may or may not be 100% robust. It does not take into account practice list size growth, not all practices in Wakefield use SytemOne and not all practices will record and use appointments in the same way. There are 232 full time equivalent GPs and 150 full time equivalent GP Nurses in Wakefield. If today in Wakefield, one or two people can't get an appointment with th...