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Primary Care Nurse News is our bi-monthly newsletter to update you on work at the CCG and to provide the opportunity for YOU to share YOUR news and successes.

If you have any comments or any news to share in the next edition, please get in touch with Sally Harris.

Please share with any nurses in your practice who may not be on our distribution list. To sign-up, please contact Shelley Hart. 


Primary Care Nursing News - September 2020
28 August 2020
  • Sally's Blog
  • Lunchtime Learning and Drop-in & Chat sessions
  • Learning Disability Annual health checks and Flu vaccinations
  • Mental Capacity Act and Safeguarding training
  • Widowed & Young
  • #LookingAfterYouToo
  • Healthwatch Digital Survey and Digital Nurse Network
  • Assorted virtual training webinars and conferences
 
Primary Care Nursing News - June 2020
17 June 2020
  • Virtual Nurse Forum
  • Project Inspire
  • Covid-19 Self Care for Wound Care Guidance
  • Get involved with Flu
  • Connect & Create
 
Shine a Light - International Nurses Day 2020
12 May 2020
 
Special Edition - April 2020
22 April 2020
  • Staying connected: Virtual Primary Care Nurse Forum
  • Wellbeing - Managing the uncertainty
  • Active Coping Calendar
  • CQNI GPN Survey
  • Covid-19 Newsletter
  • Stay in touch
  • Useful documents
 
Primary Care Nursing News - March 2020
10 March 2020
  • Sallys Blog 
  • Park Run 2 May 2020
  • Primary Care Nurse Forum Updates
  • Sharing Notice Board
  • The changing perceptions of a Practice Nurse
  • Eating Disorder Support in Suffolk
  • Is a low-carb dietary approach a useful option in the management of Type-2 Diabetes?
  • Changes to the infant vaccine schedule
  • Infection prevention and control training for IPC lead and General Pratice nurses
  • Advice on flu vaccines and reimbursement guidance
  • Advice on Coronavirus
 
Primary Care Nursing News - December 2019
16 December 2019
  • Sally's Blog
  • Latest Nurse Training Manual
  • NMP Forum Dates
  • Articles of Interest: How to ask for CPD
  • Nurse Recruitment 
  • Suffolk health visiting and school nurse changes 
  • Safeguarding 
  • Infection Prevention 
  • Diabetes e-Learning 
  • Primary Care Nurse Forum 
  • Respiratoty guidelines
  • LD Nursing 
  • CVD Conference
  • 2020: Year of the Nurse 
  • Sharing Board
 
Practice Nurse News - October 2019
22 October 2019
  • Chair's blog
  • Review of Nurse Conference
  • Next Forum meeting
  • Training and Education Manual
  • Training opportunities (cancer, allergies, psychosis, transgender, AF)
  • Leadership conference
  • Woundcare and appliances formulary update
  • Care Homes Group
  • Warm Homes with Rural Coffee Caravan
  • LGBT primary care survey
  • Black History Month
  • New campaigns including season flu vaccines, 'We are the NHS' and Hate Crimes Awareness week
 
August 2019 - Extra
27 August 2019
  • Sally's blog
  • Practice Nurse Conference Agenda (with timings)
  • Feedback from PN Forum on Dementia
 
Practice Nurse News - August 2019
19 August 2019
  • Ipswich and East Suffolk Practice Nurse Survey
  • Infection Control Update
  • One Clinical Community Ipswich and East Suffolk Nurse Leadership Development programme 
  • Nursing associate Leadership Programme 
  • Spirometry Interpretation workshops 
  • Inequalities in cervical screening
  • Funding available to training nurses new to general practice
  • New Musculoskeletal (MSK) Primary Care E-learning programme 
  • Patient Activation Measures (PAM)
  • Womens Health Update course
  • East of England Practice Nurse and Community Diabetes Specialist Nurse Conference 
 
Practice Nurse News - July 2019
16 July 2019
  • Sally's blog
  • Primary care Nurse conference
  • ONE CLINICAL COMMUNITY: Ipswich and East Suffolk Nurse Leadership Development Programme 2019-2020
  • Launch of ‘CONNECT for health’ initiative across East Suffolk
  • Primary Care Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing Evening Education Series
  • Reminder: Living Life to the Full (LLTTF)
  • Wound Care Updates
  • General Practice Improvement Leads programme
  • Time for Care Quality Improvement for General Practice Nurses
  • The Suffolk and NE Essex Training Hub
  • Level 3 Safeguarding Children Training dates for Primary Care Clinicians
  • Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin
  • Flu Imms updates 2019-20
  • Suffolk Respiratory Group Refresher Afternoon
  • 'Meet the Mash' sessions for Primary Care services
 
May 2019
22 May 2019
  • June's Practice Nurse Forum
  • Sally's Blog including PN Conference
  • Specialist Perinatal Mental Health Team
  • Suffolk Respiratory Group
  • Safeguarding Event
  • One Home GPN Single Point
  • Suffolk Domestic Abuse Champions Network
  • NMP Forum
  • Primary Care Mental Health & Wellbeing Training
  • Dementia Cafe
  • Mental Health First Aid Workshop
 
March 2019
20 March 2019
  • Sally's update
  • Next PN Forum
  • Cervical screening campaign
  • Nursing blog: Research nurse
  • Living Life to the Full
  • Digital Nurse Network
  • CWMT Project grant for practice nurses
  • Insulin safety week
  • Diabetes prevention week
  • Wound care updates
  • Suffolk Prevent conference
  • Mental Health Education
  • L3 Safeguarding training
  • Introduction to COPD workshop
  • Suffolk Respiratory Group meetings
 
January 2019
22 January 2019
  • Sally's blog
  • Diabetes services and resources
  • Update on NMC standards
  • Nursing Conference
  • SEND 16+ Transitions Guide
  • Next Practice Nurse Forum
  • Training opportunities
 
November 2018
26 November 2018
  • Forum update
  • NMC resources
  • Nursing Blog: Macmillan Cancer course
  • Woundcare and dressings
  • 10 Point Plan survey
  • Leadership conference
  • Adult safeguarding
 
October 2018
19 October 2018
  • Practice Nurse Forum update
  • Next Forum Agenda - November
  • Practice Nurse Survey
  • GP+
  • We are the NHS recruitment campaign 
 
September 2018
19 September 2018
  • Practice Nurse Forum
  • Blog: What working in primary care means to me
  • PHE vaccine updates
  • Mandatory training guidance
  • Primary care Education Lead
  • IDDSI
  • MyDiabetes & Diabetes Prevention Programme
 
August 2018
07 August 2018
  • Practice nurse forum
  • Immunisation update
  • Spirometry training options
  • Practice nurse cancer course
  • GP online services
 
July 2018
12 July 2018
  • Practice Nurse Forum Update
  • Nursing Recruitment Campaign
  • Spirometry Training Options
  • Mental Health Services Survey
  • Breastfeeding training 
  • Physical Activity in Clinical Care training


 
Jun 2018
15 June 2018
  • Welcome and Forum Update including outcomes from March meeting
  • Meet the new Chief Nursing Officer - Lisa Nobes
  • Educational Hubs/ Leadership Programme - Julie White, Primary Care Development, CCG
  • Spirometry Training Opportunities - Chris Loveridge, Education for Health
  • Flu immunisation update
  • Evaluation and close
 
May 2018
18 May 2018
  • Physical Activity Clinical Advice Pad Pilot
  • Medicine Management Care Home Training
  • Thank you from Deirdre
  • Practice Nurse Forum
  • Safeguarding Training
  • Chief Nursing Officer Bulletin


 
April 2018
16 April 2018
  • Asthma resources and register
  • Shingles programme
  • Stoma training
  • Practice nurse forum
 
March 2018
14 March 2018
  • Practice Nurse Forum
  • Next Trinity Park date: 25 April Stoma and Ostomy
  • Physical Activity in clinical care training courses
 
February 2018
15 February 2018
  • Practice nurse Forum in March
  • New Chief Nurse appointed 
  • Other training opportunities
 
January 2018
11 January 2018
  • Welcome
  • Feedback form the first Practice Nurse Forum
  • Q&A with the Chief Nurse (interim), Chris Hooper
  • Agenda for the next Forum on 7 March
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