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...

Health Education England and have made a short You Tube film that showcases what a General Practice Nurse does in a day. If you want to see the film click here

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...

Health Education England has published a General Practice Nursing, Workforce Development plan - to read it click here for the link. The report has been written by a HEE Task and Finish group chaired by Dr Peter Lane, who is a GP in Barnsley and the lead behind the Yorkshire and Humber Advanced Training Practice Initiative. The report looks at four key issues: Entry into general practice – raising the profile as a first career choice and increasing the availability of training placements for students Establishing the role of the GP Nurse – ensuring appropriate training and support is available for new GPNs   Enhancing the role with professional development and career progression Expanding the healthcare support workforce with standardised training and career paths. We have been reviewing the recommendation of the report and looking at how the work of the Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy is addressing these recommendations and then RAG rating ourselve...

As part of the General Practice Forward View (GPFV) commitment to strengthen general practice workforce The Academy is supporting practices to make a proposal to become part of the International GP Recruitment Programme. Overseas GPs recruited as part of the programme will be supported with a dedicated training programme about general practice in England. Support will be provided to help with language requirements and meeting the standards of the national Induction and Refresher (I&R) Scheme. GPs recruited as part of the scheme will get funding similar to those on the Induction and Refresher scheme. The funding is £3,500 per month whilst on the scheme, £1,250 contribution towards the cost of indemnity and £425 for reimbursement of GMC registration fees. Practices need to be GP training practices or to be partnered with a GP training practice. Practices on the scheme will be offering attractive and competitive salaries and the schemes will be offering help with relocation fo...

We are really pleased to announce that Janice Dean has joined the Academy as our Academy Co-ordinator. Janice is on secondment from Wakefield CCG. We have proper accommodation at Kings Medical Centre, Normanton - an office, meeting room and usual office 'stuff'. Janice has a desk and here she is settling in! Janice is the go-to person for the Academy. We are currently acquiring an Academy generic email address that Janice will access and distribute but in the meantime you can ring her on 01924 228092 or contact her on her Wakefield email address - janice.dean@wakefieldccg.nhs.uk .

The latest quarterly survey of general practice staff in practices across Yorkshire and Humber was published last week. There were several themes from the data: The number of practices continues to reduce with mergers and consolidation of practices. In the last quarter the number of practices again reduced from 765 to 757 The affect of initiatives to encourage newly qualified nurses to have a career in general practice can be seen with 12% of GP nurses under 34 years of age The number of GPs under 34 has reduced from 23% to 20%. This might because newly qualified GPs are not taking up posts locally. It raises the interesting questions about where they actually are going? The report also shows the continued huge inter practice variation. Of 136 practices that commented about their risks and mitigation's only one practice said it had no workforce risks. The risks could be summarises under the following headings: Recruitment / retention /retirement Workload Resource co...