ICHP are pleased to announce the launch of the Polypharmacy Action Learning Set Foundation (ALSF). This is a pilot educational opportunity for primary care clinicians not yet eligible for the Polypharmacy ALS. These may include clinicians who are not yet a prescriber or prescriber for less than one year. The course content has been developed…
BackgroundNHS England commissions the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) to provide compulsory training for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians whose salaries are being supported with the Additional Role Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS) finding. This training pathway is the Primary care pharmacy education pathway. NHS England has agreed that places remaining for a cohort not taken by…
Training for Social Prescribing Link Workers and similar roles in North West London This training programme is sponsored by North West London Integrated Care Board to support social prescribing link workers, health and wellbeing coaches and similar roles, improve understanding of social welfare advice needs of clients of social prescribing. It will enable better identification…
What is the training? This framework has been developed to allow individuals and employers to be aware of the skills and knowledge that are required to ensure they can safely care for a child and young person with asthma. The framework is aimed at both health and non-healthcare professionals across all aspects of a child’s…
We are currently recruiting Practices to take GPN Academic Trainees for a September 2024 start date. We are aiming to work with Practices, to address the below and this is outlined on the linked flyer: The GPN Trainee Academic course is a year long course, which will result in a skilled GPN. Throughout the year,…
Following the success of last year’s NW London Big Case Find, Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) and NW London Integrated Care Board are delighted to be running this initiative again in May 2024.Currently, 207,729 NW London adult residents are suspected to have undiagnosed hypertension (source: WSIC). The NW London Big Case Find aims to decrease…
Preliminary reports detailing the system-wide analysis of the barriers to career progression faced by black and minority ethnic staff members have been published on Collabor8 for all staff to access. As well as the analysis, the reports give ideas around the practical implementation of the “zero tolerance” policy towards discrimination and we are keen to build…
The Yoga4NHS programme is a 6-week evidence-based health and wellbeing course accredited by the Royal College of GPs which equips staff with a toolkit of mind-body practices; this can help to reduce stress/anxiety, increase resilience and reduce risks of burnout. The sessions are being offered free to NHS staff by the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance….
There is a new Enhanced Service (ES) to provide the fitting of coils for non-contraceptive purposes (see attached). It is hoped that eventually every PCN will have a clinician that is able to fit coils for their PCN population. However, the training can be onerous so this may take some time! There is training available…
As of October 2023 there are two new Diabetes Enhanced Services specifications, these can be found here. National lead Dr Shivani Misra lead 4 sessions on this topic, the recordings and slides from these sessions can be found here.