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Celebrating Advancing Practice Week
29 November 2022
To mark and celebrate Advancing Practice Week on Monday 7 and Thursday 10 November, the south west Faculty for Advancing Practice participated in a number of sessions in this year's national advancing practice conference that was attended by over 3,000 people (recordings will be made available soon).
During the week, the faculty also used Instagram to showcase what a day in the life looks like for advanced practitioners in the south west. Two practitioners working in emergency care and frailty are featured on HEE's Instagram account (click on AP Week 22).
The faculty also launched their latest podcast focusing on leadership in advanced practice. The podcast explores the many facets of leadership and how vital clinical leadership is within the profession.
To round off the week, the faculty launched a video showcasing the benefits of surgical advanced practitioners as part of the surgical multi-disciplinary team. The video follows three surgical advanced practitioners – Jay Smallshaw, Danielle Stevens, Jube John and consultant surgeon Tom Walker – who work in the Surgical Assessment Unit at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Advanced practice radiography study day
The Faculty for Advancing Practice invited advanced practitioners interested in radiography for a virtual study day on Wednesday 19 October. The faculty welcomed 74 like-minded people focusing on leadership, education and research as well as a series of advanced practitioners who shared their lived experiences of working at an advanced level within radiography. You can view the recordings and resources from the event here.
Advanced practice south west research skill development event
The south west Faculty for Advancing Practice held on Thursday 3 November a virtual event to help advanced practitioners and academics develop their research skills. Some 86 people participated in the event which was used to network, hear presentations on how to get involved in research and learn about different ways to incorporate research into participants’ roles. You can view the recordings and resources from the event here.
We are delivering bronze and more advanced silver QI courses for postgraduate doctors in training in partnership with the South West Academic Health Science Network (South West AHSN).
Our courses are open to postgraduate doctors in training (FY2, Core StR), Specialty and Associate Specialty (SAS) grades and dentists in training (bronze). They are interactive and practical courses with an experienced clinical faculty. The courses aim to explore QI science and methodologies, implementing a QI project in a training setting, and the challenges this may present, and how to convert completed QI projects into a presentation and prepare for publication.
Find out more about dates and registration. (MaxCourse registration required)
To deliver this programme we have collaborated with the University of Plymouth’s Faculty of Health. This programme is designed for postgraduate doctors and dentists in training (GP and Specialty ST3+), and SAS Doctors.
The PGS programme is fully aligned with the GMC’s Generic Professional Capabilities Framework, and provides a unique combination of skills, knowledge and thinking to develop as a clinical leader within an evolving NHS. The programme consists of seven modules including a two-day new module on QI. The course requires commitment of nine days throughout the academic year for the delivery sessions, plus time required to write a final reflection.
These half day virtual sessions are designed to be interactive and ensure educational and clinical supervisors have more understanding of the context for QI, the fundamentals QI methodology and how best to support, encourage and supervise good quality improvement experiences for their postgraduate doctors in training. The sessions are delivered on our behalf by QI and patient safety expert Dr Tricia Woodhead.
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We are excited to offer you our new resource open to all. We’ve updated and revamped our QI pages and they now feature signposted resources including:
- how-to QI guides for those in training, and trainers;
- project ideas;
- QI support contacts within trusts; and
- monthly blogs from national QI experts.
Find out more by visiting Severn QI or Peninsula QI.
We have appointed a QI Clinical Fellow to work with our team focusing on QI as part of the strategic educational plan and faculty development for trainers and postgraduate doctors in training. The post is for one year with the post-holder spending two days studying and developing QI and gaining a postgraduate certificate qualification in Healthcare Leadership and Management with the remaining sessions spent clinically within their specialty.
Our ongoing work includes liaison with quality leads in trusts, trainers, and postgraduate doctors in training plus other stakeholders in the region to establish a QI training network and to foster support for postgraduate doctors in training to engage with Quality Improvement projects.
We are also exploring multidisciplinary work regarding QI training. Our mission continues to be promotion of QI by facilitating training and uptake of projects by postgraduate doctors in training with aims of improving patient safety, experience and efficiency and supporting the development of their competencies and confidence to use quality improvement methods as part of their daily professional practice.
For further information or to become involved please contact us.