Wakefield District GP Target Evaluation and Answers!

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 themes from the comments were;

  • Start to use OSCAR
  • Increased awareness of different pain management approaches
  • Concern about NHS resources and the impact on general practice
  • Support for use of slid in future events

All the main presenters were asked to answer all the questions that were submitted via slide and if you want to find the answers and see the complete evaluation documents in the TARGET dropbox folder then click here.

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