Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy

We wish all Wakefield GP Practice staff a Merry Christmas and Happy New year. To see our Christmas Jib Jab movie   click on this link!  And I can confirm that I had the full consent of those involved (sort of ...) to participate in this movie ...

The Academy has been working with Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust and South West Yorkshire Partnership Foundation Trust to develop a Rotational Training Programme for newly qualified Physicians Associates. Physicians Associates are healthcare professionals with a generalist medical education who are able to work alongside and under the supervision of GPs. They are generally biomedical graduates who have undertaken a two year Physicians Associate training course which is at MSc level. Qualified PA’s are able to:   Take medical histories from patients   Carry out physical examinations See patients with undifferentiated diagnose    See patients with long term chronic conditions   Provide telephone consultations Provide home visits/nursing and residential home visits Formulate differential diagnoses and management plans Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedure Develop and deliver appropriate treatment  and management plans    Re...

At the New Models of Care board yesterday we presented our strategy for general practice workforce transformation over the next three years. Below is a summary of what we said: Aim of the Strategy To expand, develop and deliver the general practice (wider primary care) workforce by 2020. Ensuring we have the right people (confident, engaged and motivated) with the right skills, values and behaviours, which results in a workforce who collaboratively support self-management and deliver wrap around health, care and well being services which embodies the ‘Triple Aim’ of patient experience, health outcomes and financial effectiveness. Five Key Priority Areas: •        Workforce Strategy and Planning •        Enhancing and Growing Systems Leadership •        Growing Talent and Securing Resilience •        New roles, new ways or working •   ...