PRIMARY CARE
Fylde Coast
Fylde Coast Primary Care Training Hub works with and on behalf of the 34 practices within the Fylde Coast CCG footprint.
We work in close cooperation with the Lancashire and South Cumbria Training Hub central team as well as the other locality teams in the region to deliver locally and regionally commissioned educational and development programmes. You can read more about them in the Education section of this website.
With the expansion of our work programme, we are also growing our team, to gain further capacity to support general practice education and development.
WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE FYLDE COAST
Events ~ CPD ~ News
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Events
UCLan Physician Associate Professional
Training Update and Best Practice Day
FAO: Practices who take PA students and practices or PCNs who employ PAs
Jane Rutt-Howard and the PA team are holding a Physician Associate Professional Training Update and Best Practice Day at UCLan. Following the recent GMC visit (November 2023) we are wanting to keep up the momentum and share some of the excellent Best Practice taking place across our placement areas.
Please see Physician Associate Training Update flyer for more information and the link to book your place.
Nurse & AHP Annual Conference
The Annual Nurse and Allied Health Professionals Conference will take place on 2nd July 2024 at UCLan
View Nurse & AHP Conference flyer with booking link
You can now nominate your colleagues for our Conference Awards!
View Nurse & AHP Conference Awards Flyer with nomination form
WHAT'S HAPPENING
CPD
Fylde Coast CPD Funded Training
Fylde Coast Primary Care Training Hub is proud to present the following fully funded training opportunities open to General Practice Nurses and AHPs for financial year 2023/24. These training offers have been commissioned at-scale allowing for maximum cost efficiencies; multiple delivery dates wherever possible and have been approved by PCN Clinical Directors in line with current / on-going training needs across the patch.
Limited funding is available to support individual training requests not currently being met by our at-scale offer below. Funding applications can be made using our online application form or via the link in the following document:
Please click on the following link to view and book courses – Fylde Coast CPD funded training opportunities
FSRH Essentials
Lancashire Sexual Health is organising FSRH Essentials course on behalf of FSRH.
The SRH Essentials Course is aimed specifically at healthcare practitioners working in primary care settings. It provides an interactive day with scenario based learning, presentations, time for discussion, questions and role play. It is relevant for those needing an introduction to SRH and also provides a useful update for more experienced staff. These courses are delivered in a variety of locations across the UK. SRH Essentials is not a competency based course and it is not assessed.
Please click on the following link for more information, dates and booking link – FSRH Flyer April to July 24
WHAT'S HAPPENING
News
General Practice Assistant Training
There are (yet to be 100% confirmed) plans to have another GPA accredited training programme cohort start around April time.
Advice is for anyone interested in a future cohort is to complete the application now. Places on the programme are prioritised by those currently working in the GPA role (employed through ARRS or funded by the practice) and those who have already started to follow the frameworks and gathering evidence ready to be submitted onto the portal. Please click the following link to complete the form: https://remote.ipegs.co.uk/webforms/NDE3NTc=
(On the application, there appears to be a drop down box to select a specific area of which our locality – Blackpool and/or Fylde Coast isn’t listed but I believe there is an option for ‘other’ so you can select that instead. The course is open to the whole of the north west).
Practice Managers will need to complete the first page of the form and upon pressing the submit button the form will then be emailed automatically to the GP Assistant for them to complete their information. Once the GP assistant completes their information and submits the form it will automatically go to the GP mentor for completion. After this it will go to your regional training hub (Cheshire and Mersey are managing this for L&SC) who will contact you in due course regarding the next stage in the process.
Click here for GP Assistant Specification
Click here for GPA Frequently asked questions