Projects Archive

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1 Ashton, Wigan & Leigh PCQG: Electronic resources to improve use of evidence-based guidelines for training
The project, led by Dr Bob Kirk, is focused on developing learning resources to improve the use of IT in the management of patient care, and the access to and availability of, Clinical Governance and other relevant information in the Wigan Borough for the primary care community.

2 Blackburn with Darwen PCT: Developing a model for a multi-disciplinary primary care training health centre
The project is intended to provide a flexible training model and associated templates that can be used to identify the training resource requirements within a community setting in a flexible way. This would include a methodology to identify a suitable community facility that could subsequently be developed to deliver multi-professional training in a working community setting. The model and templates, provided on CD-ROM, could be used for emerging PCT organisations to assist them as they begin to try to identify their own training requirements.

3 Blackburn: communication/consultation skills for juniors in Paediatrics
The project is focused on using video playback and role play, to provide training in counselling and listening skills, development of consultation skills, interview and viva skills.

4 Blackpool: exploiting the knowledge base in the primary and community care sectors
The project is focused on maximising the provision and exploitation of digital health care information in primary and secondary care sectors in a cost effective way to provide demonstrable impact in continuing education, clinical practice and patient care. Project partners are Blackpool PCG, Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde Community Health Services NHS Trust and Blackpool Health Professionals' Library.

5 Bolton: CPD and collaborative Working
The project is focused on developing life long learning skills that relate directly to the professional self-regulation and continuous professional development of medical staff, as well as integrated care pathways.

6 Burnley: emergency medical admissions - developing evidence based care
This project looked in detail at the present pathways of patients admitted through the Accident and Emergency Department to acute medical beds in the hospital and developed a range of ideas to benefit patients, junior medical staff and the Trust through improved patient management against the guidelines implicit in Care Pathways.

7 Burnley: learning in the new NHS
The project is focused on encouraging medical staff to integrate PDP and portfolios of learning, enhance the evidence-based practice/appraisal skills of trainees and encourage multi-disciplinary learning.

8 Bury: Personal Development Plans
The project was focused on devising a model for Personal Development Plans for all health professionals within the Trust.

9 Bury:improving communication skills
The project is focused on training consultants and senior nurses/PAMs in how to assess and appraise junior medical staff on communication skills.

10 Bury: developing and assessing skills in clinical practice
The project is focused on developing a matrix of key skills and learning outcomes for each specialty area, prioritised in terms of timetable for achievement by PRHOs and allied professionals, e.g. audit, IM&T, communication skills, bereavement counselling, team-working, and prescribing practice.
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11/12 Central Manchester: (i) emergency psychiatry – tailored problem-based learning (ii) nurse-led training for deliberate self-harm assessments
Both projects are being directed by Dr Damien Longson, Consultant Psychiatrist, and managed by Sarah Sanderson. The first is focused on developing excellence in the management of incipient and acute psychiatric emergencies leading to improved outcomes in patient care. The second is focused on transferring skills in assessing risk associated with DSH from highly specialised nurses to junior doctors in Psychiatry and A&E.

13 Central Manchester: foundation course in evidence retrieval, appraisal and dissemination
The project is focused on developing and delivering training in best evidence retrieval and dissemination to all professional staff in Emergency Medicine to allow them to be instruments for delivery of a major part of the clinical effectiveness agenda.

14 Central Manchester: enhancing delivery of healthcare to children
The project is focused on training medical staff and health professionals who treat children in clinical areas away from the Paediatric Unit. The seminars are intended to involve junior doctors in multidisciplinary discussion regarding common problems encountered such as pain and the effects of social issues surrounding the inner city population served, increase awareness of physical and psychological growth and developments, abnormal pathology, and the importance of interventions such as play. The project leader is Ms Hazel Chamberlain, Paediatric Practice Development Nurse.

15 Central Manchester: problem-based learning in the clinical environment
The project, led by Dr David Tunbridge, is centred upon the establishment of group-based learning for junior doctors, to focus on patients who present a challenge to clinical management.

16 Central Manchester: Improvement of safe and effective prescribing skills for health professionals
The project is intended to address the education and training needs around safe and effective prescribing by the multi-professional team, in order to improve the quality of prescribing and consequently the quality of care given to patients who are prescribed with medicines.

17 Central Manchester: Evidence-based child health – critical appraisal skills in clinical decisions
Evidence-based medicine required new skills of physicians, including literature searching and ability to judge the validity of published research articles. This programme aims to develop participants' critical appraisal skills and to enable them to enhance their understanding of evidence-based health care.

18 Central Manchester/Manchester Children's Hospital: medical note-keeping for SHOs

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The project, led by Drs Maureen Cleary and Mark Bradbury, is focused on improving SHOs ability to keep high quality notes and thereby promote active learning of clinical problems. It includes an assessment of current standards of note-keeping followed by training in written communication skill and a review of critical incidents related to medical note-keeping.

19 Christie: education co-ordinator
The project is intended to establish the role of an Education co-ordinator for doctors in training. The incumbent will assume responsibility for setting up systems to ensure that educational opportunities are maximised, acting as a central point of information and assistance for all trainees and trainers. The Education co-ordinator will also be involved with the development of an electronic handbook for junior doctors.

20 Manchester Mental Health Partnership: Training to improve mental health care of older people in hospital
The project is focused on the education and training of junior medical staff and selected nursing staff to improve the mental health care of older people on medical, surgical, rehabilitation and intermediate care wards in an acute hospital, with particular emphasis on detecting and managing the three most common psychiatric problems (delirium, dementia and depression) in this age group.
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21 Medical Education Unit: managing the teaching of learners with varying experience and needs in the clinic environment
The project will carry out an assessment of current teaching patterns in clinics where there are learners (from medical students to Specialist Registrars) competing for finite teaching resources. The intention is to identify the problems faced by Consultant clinical teachers and some solutions to these problems, thereby informing plans for staff development to support teachers.

22 Mental Health Services of Salford: Training GPs to manage patients with challenging mental health problems
The project will establish groups of GPs, facilitated by psychotherapists, to focus on enhancing their understanding and ability to contain the challenging patients with mental health problems presenting in primary care.

23 Morecambe Bay: Communication and Consultation Skills Development

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The project focused on establishing a development programme to (a) support doctors in training in consultation skills and (b) strengthen the learning and support infrastructure by developing consultants as facilitators both in facilitating the development programme and action learning meetings, including in the workplace, drawing on day to day opportunities for learning and improving practice in consultation.

24North Western Deanery: Quality assurance of postgraduate medical and dental training posts & programmes
The project is focused on collecting and analysing data on existing quality assurance mechanisms for training posts and programmes in the deanery and nationally, identifying best practice and producing recommendations for further improvement of systems and processes.

25 North Western Deanery/Gt. Manc WDC: Delivering 24 House access – services at night
The project is focused on facilitating two health economies to review their organisations, giving them the opportunity to step back and consider how things can be done differently by analysing current systems and identifying improved ways of working around delivering 24 hour access.

26 North Western Deanery/ Gt. Manc WDC: Educational needs of non-consultant career grade doctors
The project is focused on identifying the professional development needs of non-consultant career grade doctors, mapping current provision and making recommendations for appropriate education and training provision for this group of clinicians.

27 North Western Deanery: Careers advice for doctors in training
The project is focused on developing a central source of careers information (Web-based) for doctors in training, including medical workforce issues and the training programmes and requirements for different specialties.

28 North Western Deanery: Preparing for assessment in Vocational Training (Dentistry)
The project is aimed at enabling those working in dental vocational training to gain a better understanding of the issues involved in the introduction of assessment into dental vocational training and to learn from the experience of medical colleagues.

29 North Western Deanery: Continuing Professional Development for General Dental Practitioners
The project will involve a structured interview with c. 200 GDPs who did not attend a Deanery CPD course in the past year to investigate their current CPD activity, future needs, and willingness to participate in preparation of Personal Development Plans. It will be conducted by Dr Michele Crossley and Professor Elizabeth Kay at the Dental School.

30 North Western Deanery: Developing the role of District Dental Tutors
The project is focused on (i) investigating the extent to which the DDTs' role could be extended to include working with PCG/Ts on identification of educational needs of general dental practitioners (GDPs) arising from the implementation of clinical governance; (ii) pilot mentoring of GDPs in the development of personal and practice development plans; (iii) work with Practitioner Advice and Support Schemes on the development and monitoring of personal retraining plans.
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31 North Western Deanery: Dental Practice Team Management
The project is focused on devising and delivering practice management training for all dental practice team members in protected time, involving identification of practice training needs, agreeing objectives with team members, provision of training and subsequent evaluation.

32 North Western Deanery: Evaluating the role of PRHO tutors
The intention of the project is to evaluate the role of the tutors who co-ordinate training of PRHOs in Trusts. The tutors, who have been appointed in 13 pilot sites, are responsible for ensuring that PRHOs are released for regular group-based interactive learning and have suitable education programmes to ensure smooth transition from Medical School to full registration.

33 North Western Deanery: Analysing the education culture of a hospital specialty
The project is focused on identifying the key elements of education culture within General Medicine by analysing the artifacts, espoused values and basic assumptions of the specialty across and within its national, regional and local manifestations. The intention is be to locate, within the wider culture of the specialty, attitudes and behaviours towards teaching/learning and sub-specialisation at Specialist Registrar level, to inform the work of the postgraduate deanery.

34 Oldham NHS Trust et al: Evaluation of Laerdal SimMan (Human Patient Simulator)
Human Patient Simulators (HPS) are used to teach doctors, nurses and other PAMS in the assessment and treatment of patients. The Laerdal SimMan is a complex HPS using a portable console which mimics numerous critically ill patient scenarios thereby having the facility to train a variety of personnel. The project is a prospective study to assess the efficacy of the Laerdal SimMan in training.

35 Oswald Medical Practice: Developing small group learning for GPs
The project is focused on setting up a small group of GPs based in inner city areas for mutual professional support and self-help for managing difficult clinical and practice problems.

36 Postgraduate Centre Managers: developing standards and a monitoring framework for postgraduate education centres
The project, led by three of the Postgraduate Centre Managers, is focused on developing a framework for the evaluation of educational centres to link with the existing NAPMEACA standards and develop improved North Western standards for centres.

37 Rochdale: patient handover
The project, led by Dr D Foster and Dr A Shenoy, will investigate, change and evaluate the process of patient handover to improve patient care, speed up management and reduction in bed occupancy and train junior doctors in acute medical management.

38 Salford East PCG: Developing opportunities locally to enhance the delivery of postgraduate medical teaching/ training in primary care.
The project is focused on enhancing the exposure to primary care locally during the pre-registration house officer training year and on developing the local GP SpR training scheme to include skills and experience more relevant to modern primary care practice.

39 Salford Royal: on-line infection control system
The project, led by Dr Paul Chadwick, is focused on utilising new technologies for training across a series of mandatory and clinical areas, developing a series of on-line training modules in Infection Control to improve the uptake, scope and quality of training for junior doctors and other staff.

40 Salford Royal: effect of producing cohort of educators on communication skills
The project is focused on training and supporting consultants and senior nurses to develop the skills required to become communication skills trainers for junior doctors. The project is being led by Dr Tony Thomas, Postgraduate Clinical Tutor.
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41 South Manchester: counselling skills
The project, led by Mrs A Ahluwalia, will train SHOs in counselling and communication skills, including discussing operative procedures, taking consent, record keeping and managing patients with terminal illness, impending death and trauma. Specialty-specific training will also be built into the programme, with the pilot being in Obstetrics, to include dealing with common obstetric situations involving screening for foetal abnormalities. Management of foetal abnormalities and perinatal death.

42 Specialty Training Committee in Accident & Emergency Medicine: multi-professional evidence-based learning in a virtual hospital
The project, led by Mr K Mackway-Jones, is focused on developing a web-based learning environment for the delivery of problem-based learning to emergency medicine specialist trainees. A virtual hospital will be established on the web, containing a number of clinical and administrative areas housing a number of virtual patients existing in various depths according to the educational aim of the case.

43 Specialty Training Committee in Pathology: developing a digital 3D library of histopathology specimens
The project, led by Professor John McClure, is focused on developing a digital 3D library of histopathology specimens (necropsy and biopsy) as an educational/training resource which can be accessed by a large number of trainees (WWW-based) and trainees in other disciplines. The standard approach has been the examination of specimens obtained locally in the post mortem room and in the histopathology cut-up. The number of specimens has declined and there is controversy about their use. Creating electronic materials will obviate these problems.

44 Specialty Training Committee in Psychiatry: action learning for Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
The action learning project will enable Consultant Psychiatrists to share their strategic, managerial and operational problems with colleagues in a supportive and challenging environment, and seek better practice in their resolution.

45 Stockport: improving induction of doctors in training
The project was focused on the collation and analysis of junior doctors' experiences of induction at Stepping Hill and Blackpool Victoria Hospitals, with the aim of improving their interface with hospital systems, procedures and multidisciplinary teams.

46 Stockport: developing calendar of key skills
The project is focused on identifying a calendar of training in core medical knowledge and skills during the first six months after induction, analysing areas of knowledge and skills necessary at each progressive stage in hospital placements so information can be delivered to juniors at relevant points, in order to clarify their roles and responsibilities.

47 Tameside: critical appraisal skills
The project, led by Mr Anele Ebezi, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and Mrs Patricia Conaghan, clinical governance co-ordinator, is intended to develop critical appraisal skills amongst trainees, to provide in-house workshops and develop a network of trainers who can cascade the training programme and provide ongoing training.

48 Trafford: adverse incidents – learning the lessons
The project was focused on setting up within the Trust a system to analyse data on ‘adverse incidents' in a meaningful way such that trends are identified, ‘hot spots' detected, and the lessons learned from real life adverse incidents integrated into the postgraduate teaching of junior doctors.

49 West Lancashire: finding quality clinical information
The project is focused on providing librarian-led small group teaching sessions on using Medline, Cochrane and other databases to get maximum information to support clinical practice.

50 Wigan and Leigh: empowerment of medical staff in IM&T capability
The project, led by Dr V Jaitly, is intended to formulate, deliver and evaluate the benefits of an IM&T education and training programme.
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