Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy

In Wakefield 28% of GP Practices Nurses are over 55 years of age and it is a risk for practices because they are eligible for retirement. We have been looking at the workforce data this week to see what practices are doing about it. Below is the raw data from the workforce survey tool. We have analysed the data per network and below is tabulated the raw data: One of our first thoughts was whether having more nurse mentors helps with nurse recruitment. Nurse mentors are a vital and mandatory aspect of the assessment of pre-registration nursing students. Mentors have an important role in developing and training the future nursing workforce, assessing students performance in practice and acting as professional roles models. We have looked at each network of practices in Wakefield and compared the percentage of practice nurses over the age of 55 years of age with the number of nurse mentors in that network. Below is a scatter plot of the number of mentors per network versus the %...

We have just had the latest GP Workforce Report for Q3, October to December 2017/18 from Health Education England. The report is compiled from data that practices submit to the GP Workforce tool. In this quarter we had submissions from 37 practices.  Below is tabled the headline data: Role Q2 2013/14 Q4 2016/17 (%>55) Q2 2017/18 (%>55) Q3 2017/18 GP 223.8 (14%) 232.49 (16%) 212.33 (15%) 205.95 (16%) Practice Nurse 126.52 (23.5%) 151.95 (28%) 137.48 (28%) 140.77 (27%) Direct Patient Care 59.79 (18.2%) 80.88 (20%) 78.81 (27%) 84.07 (20%) Practice Management 448.57 (25%) 478.69 (26%) 435.93 (26%) 455.62   (29%) Apprentices 11.02 (0) 29.1 (0) 26 (0) 25.37 (0) Below is a graph staff number tr...

The Academy has just signed up GP practices in Wakefield and Pontefract to be members of the West Yorkshire and Harrogate Excellence Centre. We have signed all practices up to be members of the centre. The Excellence Centre is funded by the Local Workforce Action Board and has lots of fully funded courses that are directly relevant to general practice. The pages are in development and when I looked last week I couldn't find them but they are now much more visible. Click here to find the list of fully funded courses. Below I have picked out a couple of courses that would fill a need: Ear care update Medical Terminology Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Minute taking Quality customer experience Resilience training - coping with stress To book click on the course and register. They are fully funded but there is a cost if you do not attend.