SGPET Membership 2020/21 Applications
Date sent: Thursday 13 February 2020
Somerset Practice Managers & Senior Partners
Good afternoon,
Membership of the Somerset GP Education Trust (SGPET) is due for renewal on 31st March and we write inviting your Practice to take up membership for the 12 months from 1st April 2020. The cost for annual membership is £150.00 per GP. We are aware not all Practices join fully and we would be grateful if you could pass this to your GPs if they subscribe on their own behalf.
An application form for Practice membership or individual GP membership is attached and we would be grateful if this could be completed and returned if you wish to continue membership or indeed join as a new member. Any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
It is worth noting that if all GPs in the practice join, (including salaried and retained GPs) then other members of the practice team can attend relevant sessions free of charge.
By joining your GPs and you will be able to enjoy:
- A series of clinical study days and half study days throughout the year, SGPET has already run sessions on ENT/Ophthalmology/Haematology/Dermatology and will be holding a Paediatrics Study Day, Moving Matters (Hip, Knee, Rhematology, Neurology Study Day, Diabetes update and Respiratory update a complete list of sessions are visible via the SGPET website. Local monthly evening GP Discussion Groups, new GPs, Sessional and locum GPs.
- Local monthly evening GP Discussion Groups across Somerset.
- Resuscitation updates
- Monthly evening meetings with local Consultants at venues across the county
- Week long GP Refresher Courses. These are now being held in both Yeovil and Taunton. The Yeovil GP Update is being held at Yeovil Hospital 8-11 June 2020 and the long running successful Taunton Fresh Looks course is running 23-26 November 2020
- Specific small groups for new GPs and locum GPs, PCPs (paramedics in practice)
- SGPET are continuing to expand the sessions for Nurses, Nurse Practitioners and HCA’s, including Childhood Immunisation training & updates, Ear Care, Podiatry, Women’s Health, Infection Control, Travel Health, and again in 2020 a Respiratory Study Day specifically for Nurses and a full day Update for Independent Non-Medical Prescribers
SGPET’s website has information on all events being organised, along with copies of presentations from Study Days plus an online booking facility: www.somersetgpeducationtrust.co.uk
Non-members are charged to attend events. For evening sessions the 2020/21 rate is £15 per hour. Full and half study days are charged at a specific rate for the particular event. Practice Nurse/HCA half day sessions are charged at £45 for half day training events and £110 for full day sessions.
SGPET is one of a number of similar GP Education Trusts in the Severn area and our members will continue to have certain reciprocal arrangements with the GP Education Trusts in Bristol, Gloucester, Swindon and Bath. Some events will incur costs.
Following receiving funding from Health Education England (HEE), The Training Hub also funds certain events, which are also organised by SGPET.
SGPET aims to be an important part of general practice life in Somerset. The LMC and Education Team are working hard to ensure this and your support and membership are important.
Kind regards
Tony
Dr Tony Wright
Chairman
Somerset GP Education Trust
Somerset LMC
Crown Medical Centre
Venture Way, Taunton, TA2 8QY
Tel: (01823) 331 428
Mobile: 07833 400 960
Fax: (01823) 338 561
www.somersetgpeducationtrust.co.uk
Attached file: Practice Application for membership 2020-21.doc
Attached file: Single Application for membership 2020-21.doc