Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy

Submissions to the General Practice Workforce Survey toolkit was again 100% for practices in Wakefield at the end of Q2 2017/18. This compared to a response rate of 55% at the end of Q1. The improved performance is because the Academy Co-ordinator proactively contacted practices before the submission deadline to ensure that they had submitted data. The number of practices in Wakefield has fallen from 38 to 36 but the report still does not reflect further practice mergers that have taken place. Below is a summary of the latest data compared with the last reliable quarter data (Q4 16/17). This is a graph of workforce trends over the four years we have been collecting data for. Looking at the data at the end of Q2 17/18 compared with Q4 16/17: The number of wte GPs in Wakefield has reduced from 232 to 212 There is continued low risk from retirement of GPs The number of practice nurses has reduced from 152 to 137 There is continued high risk...

Wakefield District GPs attended a training afternoon at Pontefract Racecourse on Wednesday 18th October. The session was titled 'Meet Oscar'. OSCAR is a new referral support service that has been launched to help Wakefield GPs refer patients to the most appropriate service and 'Meet Oscar' sounded like a really snappy title to get GPs interested. But the main agenda for the day was about how Wakefield General Practices will need to change to meet the challenges of increasing workload, stretched financial resources and a GP workforce shortage. 200 Wakefield GPs attended and we had 50 completed evaluations. Attendees were asked to score presentations and workshops out of five. All of the presentations and workshop sessions scored more than three. We used slido to get attendees to ask questions of our speakers and below is an infographic of the main themes from questions attendees asked: We also asked for free text comments. The comments were very interesting and t...

If you have attended the Wakefield District TARGET session on Wednesday 18th October and want to down load a certificate of attendance then click here.  For NHS appraisal purposes you don't need a certificate of attendance and your appraiser is more interested in your reflections about the training afternoon. What did you learn, how is it going to change your practice and what will you different in the future? To help you with these reflections I have added a short reflective template after the certificate of attendance.

News Item Amy Byard, Senior Communications Officer at Wakefield CCG has issued a news item about a new vocational work experience pilot that the Academy has been involved with. I wanted to make a direct link to it, but couldn't so I have just copied and pasted it below! But it is a great news story and a real good start for the work the Academy is doing in helping young people see healthcare as a great career choice! A pilot launched this week to set to widen access to health and social care careers for sixth form students at Airedale Academy in Castleford. Launched by NHS Wakefield Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) the Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy pilot provides vocational work experience placements for students in a variety of health and social care roles. Over the next month, seven Year 13 Health and Social Care BTEC students will each undertake 100 hours of work experience with a number of different local health and social car...