SGPET Update
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Are you looking for additional resources for managing patients with chronic pain? Livewellwithpain is a clinician run national organisation that has recently added new resources for HCPs at www.livewellwithpain.co.uk . They also have...
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Are you a paramedic working in primary care and wondering what the new Roadmap to Practice for FCP/AP means for you? We have organised a meeting with national, regional and local contributors for Thurs Feb 4th 6.30-8.00 to help you...
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Do you have nurse practitioners, paramedics, physiotherapists or clinical pharmacists working in your practice? If so this meeting will be very helpful. An Essential Update about First Contact Practitioners and Advanced Clinical...
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Paediatric Allergy Educational Vignettes. The Peninsula Paediatric Allergy Network covers the paediatric allergy units from Cornwall up to Taunton and Dorchester. Please see an introduction from the Network here and Vignettes as...
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A happy, hopeful New Year to you all. Our events will resume with Nurse Immunisation Update Training on the 14th January and the first GP study session on the 20th January 'Growing Old Normally'. We will continue to provide support...
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The SGPET team would like to wish you all the best for this festive season and thank you all for your support for all the 2020 educational events which started out really well in traditional fashion for January and February after...
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Growing Old Normally, 20 Janaury 2021 (SGPET/ST3 Study Day) - Programme now confirmed, sessions on Falls, Deprescribing, Dementia & Parkinsons Disease
SGPET Website User Guidance
NHS Primary Care Bulletin
The Health and Care...
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Training modules Covid Vaccine: The Core Training Modules are now live, accessible via the Learning for Health site.
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NHS Primary Care Bulletin
The Health and Care Professionals Council (hcpc)...
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Digital Skills Bootcamps - primary care in Somerset has been awarded 20 funded places on these great IT training programmes. Courses run for 12 weeks from January 4th. Applicants cannot hold a degree-level qualification so this is...
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End of Life online education session for GPs and clinicians working in out of hours/urgent care. with Dr Jo Lutyens and colleagues from Somerset palliative services. Tuesday December 1st- 6.30 - 8pm. Contact Emma Sartain at Devon...
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Fresh Looks 2020 - Full Programme, places still available.
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NHS Primary Care Bulletin
The Health and Care Professionals Council (hcpc) COVID-19 hub
Resources for GP's & others in similar...
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Education Events on Zoom As practices will be aware the education team have moved the full programme where feasible online to Zoom and have also added many further events to those that had been delivered F2F. To date this has had...
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This second lockdown means that all our learning will remain online well into 2021. The SGPET team is working hard to make sure that we are providing you with a wide range of learning events and an increasing amount of online...
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Diabetes Study Day 21 Oct 2020 - Presentations from the day have now been added to the event on our website. (please note you will need to be registered with website and logged in to view them)
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Fresh Looks Programme - The full programme apart from one session is now confirmed please see here. If you would like to book one or all of the dates please find the links below in the SGPET education list.
Booking Events and Using...
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SGPET Respiratory Season
We are pleased to confirm the details of a series of events produced by SGPET and the CCG to increase your knowledge, skills and confidence in managing patients with respiratory conditions - particularly...
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Want to feel more confident about using practical Quality Improvement methods and tools in your day to day work? Improvement Fundamentals is a brand new programme of short, bite-sized mini-courses from NHS Improvement that takes you...
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WINTER RESPIRATORY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME OF EVENTS
A series of events has been produced by SGPET and the CCG to enhance knowledge and supportive skills to manage with confidence people with respiratory conditions that potentially...
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PCN Staff access to SGPET - As you may be aware Training Hubs support learning and development of health services in Somerset. The Somerset Training Hub is led by Martyn Hughes and is funded directly from Health Education England. It...
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Update from SGPET Vice Chair Dr Ian Boyland
Adapting Our Programme - With COVID ever present and possibly on the rise we have had to put in place firm plans for the rest of the year. Unfortunately we are not planning any face to...
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INTERESTED IN BECOMING A PAID MENTOR TO NEW GPs - Two important parts of the Updated GP Contract are the:
1. New to Practice Fellowship Programme which provides newly qualified GPs with support, learning, mentorship and protected...
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General Practice Fellowships for Newly Qualified GPs and Nurses is a two year programme of support available to all newly qualified GPs and nurses working in general practice which was introduced in the Update to the GP Contract....
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SGPET Events Update. Taking account of all possible advice the SGPET team has unfortunately had to make the decision that we cannot put on any same room face to face meetings before March 2021. We will instead be putting on a lot of...
Good morning, Please now find attached the missing sheet referred to in the below section in yesterdays update.
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Uptake of UWE CPD COURSES for 2020-21 - (Message from Carol Hobbs, Education Facilitator, Somerset Training Hub) Thank...
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Uptake of UWE CPD COURSES for 2020-21 - (Message from Carol Hobbs,Education Facilitator, Somerset Training Hub) Thank you to those who have contacted me so far. I am pleased to have been able to support so many Nurses and AHPs and I...
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How to manage patients with acute and chronic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic: This BMJ resource covers all clinical areas and problems, gives concise, readable advice based on latest guidelines and is regularly...
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SGPET continues to review our education programmes in the light of Covid and its impact on our commitment to support your learning and professional development. Health Education England has advised that direct contact activities...
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Group Consultation ' SGPET does not expect planned Group Consultation training meetings with national leaders ELC to take place in September and October. Practices interested instead in receiving online training and support from ELC...
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GatewayC is an online cancer education platform for all primary care clinicians. Courses are supported by Cancer Research UK, endorsed by Macmillan Cancer Support. Courses, accredited by RCGP and Health Education Funding means you can...
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GP Recruitment event 15th July - Our popular GP recruitment events of the past four years gave GPs and GP Trainees the chance to meet up and talk to a wide variety of Somerset practices all in one session. We have re-designed the...
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Changes to our website and this update. Please note from today our Anytime Learning Tutorials will be accessible from an Anytime Learning Page, rather than incorporated in our dated events list. This will hopefully make things...
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Helpful BMJ Article - Throat and ear infections in children: URTI in the time of COVID-19.
GP Recruitment event 15th July - We are going online: Our popular GP recruitment events of the past four years gave GPs and GP Trainees the...
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Receptionist Training Slides - CHIS have developed some training slides for receptionists in response to a request for support on how we might reduce the number of children being turned away when they attend for immunisation too...
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Paediatric Study Session, Wednesday 17th June 2020 - Unfortunately due to some last minute problems, some of the speakers are unable to present, however we will still be running the two sessions below. Please note these will count...
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• NEW Paediatrics Study Session. We unfortunately had to cancel this in person training day due to be held on the 22 April. However we are pleased to say we are going to be holding a Paediatrics Study Session on the 17th...
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We are disappointed that the annual June Yeovil Update course cannot take place at Yeovil Hospital Academy as planned next week. However, we are very pleased that some of the programmes contributors are able to run live Zoom...
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Please see below the final approved version of the Somerset IP & C Good Practice Guide for your use and information.
IPC Good Practice Guide - Final version now available
LMC & SGPET Office Phone lines: due to the increase in...
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SGPET Training - We have now cancelled all our face to face training and meetings until the end of June and will review any further as time goes on. Education via online resources and Zoom sessions are being arranged and will be...
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Recovering after COVID19 - a practical guide for clinicians and commissioners
Steve Holmes, GP in Somerset and PCRS Education Lead and Rob Stone, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset provide a practical...
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All that coughs is not Covid gives advice from Dt Steve Holmes , Shepton Mallet GP and education lead for the UK's Primary Care Respiratory Society, about how to assess the respiratory impact of Covid and how to distinguish it and the...
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Somerset Covid-19 Rapid Training Guide Everyone has a lot of learning to do to feel confident in the new skills and understanding required by Covid-19. This guide is designed to help you identify your learning needs and then access...
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Shielding vulnerable patients from Covid-19, RCGP slide set module update April 20th
Support and educational group meetings SGPET is working with the LMC, Somerset Training Hub and Somerset GP Career Plus to ensure that everyone in...
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The Roth Score: DO NOT use in primary care (update 2/4/2020) Some emerging protocols have recommended use of Roth Score to assess shortness of breath over the telephone but updated advice now from Professor Greenhalgh at the Centre of...
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COVID-19 rapid guideline: managing suspected or confirmed pneumonia in adults in the community. NICE guideline [NG165] Published date: 03 April 2020 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng165 It only runs to five on line pages with...
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As SGPET face to face education events remain postponed we are organising some remote learning tutorials, webinars and small group events around key topics that you will be able to view and access on this SGPET course page . Additions...
SGPET - Information and Learning about Covid19 - A Weekly Update
Due to Covid19 all SGPET events are now cancelled at least until the end of May. Education is always big part of being a healthcare professional and that is particularly so when there are new skills to learn and new ideas to...
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GP's & others in similar roles
We would like to increase numbers at the below meetings:
Bridgwater Evening Education Group - 9 March (Speaker Andrew Drysdale, ENT Update)
South Somerset & Yeovil First 5 - 11 March (Speaker Mehmet Gem, Young Adult Hip Pain)
Mendip First 5 -...
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GP's & others in similar roles
SGPET 2020/21 Membership (1 April 2020 - 31 March 2021), please find details and membership forms here
9 March, Bridgwater Education Evening - speaker confirmed, Andrew Drysdale ENT, Consultant
Practice Nurse & others in similar roles
Nurse...
