Training and Education Afternoons

Training and Education afternoons are currently all taking place virtually via MS Teams.

Out of Hours cover will be available to allow more staff to join. With regard to future practice education afternoons will keep you appraised of any event changes.

2021

Thurs 22 April - Cardiology, Heart Failure
Wed 19 May - Safeguarding Adults and Children (Level 3)*
Thurs 17 June - Urology
Wed 14 July - Cancer (Red Whale)
Thurs 9 September
Wed 13 October - Pain
Thurs 11 November - Paediatrics
Wed 8 December
Thurs 10 February 2022
Wed 9 March 2022

Usual afternoon sessions 2pm start, and finish by 6pm at the latest.

Please note there are no education events in January or August.

*As in previous years, the session will form part of your additional level 3 hours for both adult and children's safeguarding. Separate to this you need to complete your mandatory face to face level 3 training from the CCG Safeguarding team (to be completed when new in post and at least every 3 years thereafter). The CCG safeguarding team are now offering a 2-hour joint adult and children’s local update via Microsoft Teams, which you are expected to complete at least every 3 years once you have completed your level 3 e-learning packages. Dates for these sessions and booking details are advertised in the CCG safeguarding bulletin, which is sent to all surgeries.
More information can be found in Safeguarding Children and Adult Level 3 Update Guidance and Opportunities.

The monthly educational meetings in protected time are designed to bring at least some of your professional development back into the daytime.

Our aim is to provide you with high-quality learning and an opportunity to network with friends and colleagues, old and new.

Why attend?

Consultant-led educational topics
Development workshop done in a speed-dating format in small groups
Direct feedback to the commissioners
Networking with colleagues
Fun and interactive
Prioritise education for the benefit of patients
Downloadable resources from the monthly events

We appreciate that a half day practice closure is not always feasible. However, if you cannot attend a particular event at Trinity Park or online, your practice can take advantage of part of the afternoon closure to do some in-house training. We also use the afternoon closures to support 'mandatory' training for your staff and arrange events as per our published timetables.

After every training afternoon we ask for your feedback and your ideas. This is to help us in planning future training sessions that will be of greatest benefit. In 2019, we received some our most favourable feedback, thank you; you can read a summary of feedback for the whole of 2019. We continue to strive to provide high quality teaching.

Thursday 29 April 2021, 7pm - 8.15pm via MS Teams

Personality Disorder and Complex Emotional Needs

We are revisiting personality disorder and are delighted to welcome back Dr Lulu Preston, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, NSFT, who presented at our very first evening event back in February 2019 on How best to practically manage patients with personality disorder and the skills to achieve this in a 10 minute consultation.

This is part of a series of FREE educational evenings on mental health and emotional wellbeing designed for primary care practitioners across Suffolk. We have developed a full Programme for 2021/22 including domestic violence, personality disorder (or complex emotional needs), crisis pathways, gender dysphoria and much more.

To allow more people to benefit from this teaching, all sessions have been recorded. The videos are accessible to any primary care staff (most do not need a password) and are great way of doing some online learning from home. Resources from each session are also available online.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact us.

Please note that these events are NOT sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry: CCG Policy on relations with the pharmaceutical industry.

Shelley Hart
Email: shelleyhart@nhs.net