National General Practice (GP) Profiles are designed as a tool to support GPs, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) and PCTs to ensure that they are providing and commissioning effective and appropriate healthcare services for their local population.Using a variety of graphical displays such as spine charts and population pyramids, the tool represents a range of practice-level indicators drawn from the latest available data, including:
To coincide with the first anniversary of the launch of Health Education North West’s Apprenticeship Promise a celebration event was held on 13th March at the Reebok Stadium, Bolton.Sir Keith Pearson (Chair, Health Education England) and Sally Cheshire (Chair, Health Education North West) were joined by apprentices and NHS trust representatives from across the region along with strategic partners, to celebrate the region’s achievements since last year’s launch. This document provides an overview of that event.
The Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) is a programme developed over a decade ago by Gettheworldmoving to improve the health and productivity of employees around the world.In that time the programme has transformed the cultures of thousands of the world’s leading organisations, including many NHS trusts, and has changed the lives of over a million employees across 158 countries.GCC optimises organisations’ most valuable/expensive asset - their human capital - and ensures that employees arrive each day in the right physical and mental shape so that they are fully engaged.
Skills for Health and Skills for Care were commissioned by the Department of Health following the Secretary of State’s speech at an NHS Employers conference on 15 November 2011, where he announced that the Government’s intention was to commission work to develop a Code of Conduct and minimum standards for education for support workers.The Code of Conduct and National Minimum Training Standards are aimed at healthcare support workers and adult social care workers throughout England and as such are relevant to all NHS employers.
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) integrated workforce planning tool was first developed as part of the CAMHS National Workforce Programme (2011) and has since been further developed by Cme in the Community, in partnership with the Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network (ChiMat), where it is hosted.
On 11 March 2015 the North West Allied Health Professions Network hosted ‘Early Career Networking – What can the North West AHP Network do for you?’ at the Macron Stadium, Bolton. The event was attended by approximately 80 allied health professionals (AHP) from a range of disciplines, from dietitians to speech and language therapists, who are in the early stages of their career.In 2014, Norah Flood, the Chair of the North West AHP Network, set an informal objective of broadening engagement and encouraging new faces to the network.
A national vision and call to action for school nursing services has been recently published and the North West is investing in an implementationprogramme to support the partners involved in this work. The implementation programme is being led by the Child Health Development Programme and the North West Regional Youth Work Unit and wish to hear from all involved partners to explore their views, needs and support mechanisms they would like to see employed in this project. The project will last until the end of the year and will cover all North West areas.
Preceptorship is a well evidenced mechanism to support the transition of newly qualified Health Care Professional to competent practitioner. It can reduce transitional stress associated with realising their full accountability whilst being a novice competent Health Care Practitioner by being provided with structured support, advice and from a colleague.
In recent years the numbers of health visitors in the workforce have declined, as has the number of health visitor student placements offered by PCTs. Increasing the numbers in the health visitor workforce is part of the NHS Operating Framework and the SHA (Strategic Health Authority) Assurance Framework as well as a key priority for the government as set out in the coalition agreement and comprehensive spending review. This document seeks to outline what the North West objectives and implementation plan is following the recent call to action.
There is increasing recognition at a national level that our health and social care workforces need to work differently - across traditional professional boundaries, in different settings, with greater communication and integration with other services, at all levels of the career framework, with different individual skills and team skill mixes.The predicted ageing of our population, with increasingly complicated health and care needs, led to the introduction of the national Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention programme (QIPP) in 2008.