Primary Care Learning Support Service

To provide a knowledgeable and competent primary care workforce across South Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership (ie Nottingham North & East, Rushcliffe and Nottingham West CCG footprints) to ensure patient needs are managed using latest best practice information.

Learning Event aims:-

• To enable clinicians and primary care staff to have the knowledge and education to provide an efficient, effective, and safe primary care service.
• To provide a co-ordinated, relevant and quality education programme.
• Aid personal and professional development.
• Improve team work and relationships/cohesion between practices.
• Ensure a rapid response to changes/developments/governance issues and ensure these are effectively communicated.
• Dissemination of clinical and none clinical information according to the needs of the clinicians and primary care staff.
• Provide training and updates on relevant subjects, in line with local and national guidelines and policies.
• Primary care staff to be informed and kept up to date around commissioning intentions, local service improvements and changes affecting the South Nottinghamshire population.
• Provide a platform to share best practice across a range of organisations.
• Provide an opportunity and environment for primary care staff to network across practices and PCNs.

The provider will work with primary care and CCG colleagues, to :-

• Identify educational topics that meet the education needs of practice staff, and also support the PCN priorities.
• Support mandatory training requirements and dedicated PCN Development sessions of which will be agreed within the PLT steering group
• Organise the events including venue, chairing and managing speakers on the day.
• Provide training equipment for the events.
• Provide a minimum of 105hours education over 12 months across South Notts for the education of GPs, practice nurses, practice managers and practice staff as identified by a PLT steering group.
• Provide ad hoc training events for other practice staff, ie Practice Managers, Health Care Assistants and other practice staff, as identified by prac