Training opportunities

During these challenging times, managing the impact of COVID-19, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight CCG is offering PCNs and practices additional HR support and training offers .

Below you will find a list of the training available along with helpful links to resources and sources of the most up-to-date information and guidance.

To access the support offered or ask COVID-19 related HR questions please contact us This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for any HR support or Fran White for any support on training and development This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Handling challenging conversations in the workplace

Three hour Zoom workshop delivered by Warren & Aitchison, to support frontline clerical, admin & reception staff in the development of their skills and approach. This interactive workshop is designed to build ‘muscle memory’ in dealing effectively with situations where emotions are triggered.

Dates:
November 11, 9am to 12pm or 1pm to 4pm
November 18, 9am to 12pm or 1pm to 4pm
November 23, 9am to 12pm
December 2, 9am to 12pm
December 9, 9am to 12pm
December 16, 9am to 12pm

Suitable for:
GP receptionists
Social prescribers
Practice managers
All practice staff (can be delivered to whole practice as one group)

To book:
email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Innovative Collaborative Practice Programme

Personalised Care Institute free core skills course

Senior General Practice Leadership Programme

Free webinar - perinatal mental health training

Primary Care Research Apprenticeship Scheme 2021-22

The Primary Care Research Centre at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Southern Health Foundation Trust, is delighted to offer a Primary Care Research Apprenticeship Scheme.

Who is this aimed at?

Are you a GP, Practice Nurse, Pharmacist or other Primary or Secondary Care Health Professional interested in Primary Care research? Are you working in a research practice and would like to learn more about research design or other aspects of the research process?

What is involved?

You would be invited to join a piece of funded research, to shadow the team and get involved in aspects of the research, e.g. looking at data, conducting interviews, analysing interview data, developing study materials and outputs.

You will also have access to mentoring in primary care research to help you develop and pursue research ideas.

What time and funding is available?

Each project will vary and working arrangements will be organised with the project team and according to your availability and the project tasks. There are 5 apprenticeships of £1000-£2000 each, depending on time available, which will run until 31 March 2022.

Where will it lead?

If you enjoy research and would like to pursue this further we would support you in seeking funding for a subsequent fellowship.

Can I reapply in subsequent years?

Participants who have previously taken part in the apprenticeship scheme can reapply in subsequent years – please outline in your covering letter what you have gained so far and what you anticipate will be the benefits of further funding.

How do I apply?

Apply by Friday 20 August 2021 providing the following, or contact Professor Miriam Santer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Covering letter explaining why you want to apply (max 250 words)
Short CV (2 sides A4) with a focus on previous research experience, if applicable, (none needed)

Please take a look at the Primary Care website to learn more about research opportunities and who to contact about them. Examples of projects apprentices could be involved in are:

Chief Investigator	Project title	Project description and involvement
Miriam Santer Ingrid Muller This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	ECO (Eczema Care Online)	·Developing self-care support online interventions for families and young people with eczema ·Carrying out a Cochrane review into topical corticosteroid use
Miriam Santer This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Acne	·Randomised controlled placebo-controlled trial of spironolactone for acne in women ·Systematic review of international guidelines on acne
Tony Kendrick This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	REDUCE	Trial of Internet and Psychologist telephone support to patients tapering off inappropriate antidepressant treatment. Involvement with interpreting results of quantitative and qualitative data.
Tony Kendrick This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	PROMDEP	Trial of using the PHQ-9 questionnaire to monitor depression. Involvement with interpreting results of quantitative and qualitative data
Nick Francis This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	COVID-19	Analysing data from Covid online questionnaire. Includes analysis of data on: ·Use of infection control behaviours and risk of subsequent RTI/Covid-19 ·Symptoms and treatments taken during an RTI/Covid-19 illness Presence of Long-Covid symptoms and possible risk factors
Nick Francis This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	UTI in care homes	Helping to develop an ‘enhanced surveillance’ plan that could be used by care home staff instead of giving immediate antibiotics to residents with non-specific symptoms possibly related to UTI by: ·Reviewing and summarising the literature Collecting and/or analysing interview data from care home staff and primary care staff
Hazel Everitt This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	ATLANTIS	Amitriptyline at Low-dose and Titrated for Irritable Bowel Syndrome as Second-line Treatment (The ATLANTIS study): A Double-blind Placebo-controlled Trial
Hazel Everitt This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	Athena	Amitriptyline for the prevention of post-herpetic neuralgia
Mike Moore Merlin Wilcox This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	EXCALIBUR	A feasibility study of Shufeng jiedu (a traditional Chinese patent medicine) as an adjunct to usual care for exacerbations of COPD in the community

The Southampton Primary Care Research Centre (PCRC)

PCRC is one of the world’s leading primary care centres of research excellence, offering a spectrum of expertise in methodologies and a broad range of topic areas. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment, we were ranked 3rd highest for the quality of our research outputs out of 32 institutions in the Public Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care unit of assessment.

PCRC is part of the School of Primary Care, Population Sciences and Medical Education in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, giving us very close links with Public Health with shared interests in kidney disease, liver disease and alcohol misuse. We have particularly strong links with the Health Psychology group, and a very strong track-record of developing effective behavioural interventions for both patients and clinicians that really make a difference to patient care, as well as close collaborations with the Southampton NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Nutrition and Respiratory Medicine, the Faculty of Health Sciences, Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, and Computing Sciences within the University.

Our research provides new evidence to inform key challenges in primary care, including addressing major issues affecting population health. Our research currently focuses on area such as: infections and antibiotics; long-term conditions; healthy ageing; and integrative healthcare.

We organise our research around four broad themes:

Supporting self-management
Improving use of medicines
Healthcare communication
Diagnosis and prognosis

Supporting self-management

Research in this area covers a remarkable range of content areas, developing and testing internet interventions addressing: lifestyle, mental health, emotional distress, cancer-related distress and cancer survivorship, low back pain, chronic dizziness, asthma, COPD, respiratory infection, IBS, eczema, hypertension, and weight management. We have successfully developed and trialled the POWeR interventions to help tackle infectious disease epidemics such as COVID-19 (GermDefence) and major public health epidemics such as obesity (POWeR). We are evaluating self-help behavioural interventions for eczema (ECO) and irritable bowel syndrome (ACTIB). For mental health problems we are providing evidence to support self-help for distress and mindfulness meditation. We have evaluated the Alexander Technique for back pain, and psychologically based symptom management strategies in both COPD and asthma. Our SPEAK (SPEcialist cAncer helpline) studies on Macmillan’s Cancer Helpline, and the PROACTIVE intervention designed to diminish anxiety in prostate cancer patients on active surveillance. The major CLASP Programme is developing a complex internet-supported intervention for lifestyle change and the management of distress among cancer survivors.

Improving use of medicines

Research in this area includes providing evidence on the safe and effective use of conventional and alternative medicines for common conditions managed in primary care, including: infections, eczema, acne, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, depression, asthma, CKD, hypertension and COPD. A key focus has been on tackling the major public health threat of antibiotic resistance by providing evidence to support the better use of antibiotics and alternative treatments for infections. Current studies include a trial of a novel treatment for COVID-19, a trial of antibiotics for chest infections in children, a trial of a nasal spray (and lifestyle approaches) to reduce recurrent respiratory tract infections, trials of Pelargonium for chest infections and Uva ursi for acute UTI, and medication reduction/optimisation in hypertension. We are also conducting database studies on the use of ACE-inhibitors in patients with COVID-19 and have a major grant on cessation of long-term antidepressants (REDUCE).

Healthcare communication

We aim to provide evidence to enhance health care communication and improve patient outcomes. Current work includes developing tools to enhance empathy and positive messages within the consultation (EMPATHICA). Recent work identified key challenges associated with managing patients who attend with multiple concerns (EPAC study (Elicitation of PAtients’ Concerns) in general practice consultations and trialled a new communication technique to encourage early agenda setting in the GP consultation (SoCs). Qualitative work continues to explore prescribing practice in general practice consultations through in-depth analysis of video recorded consultations (AN-CAP). In the area of managing infections, we have developed and trialled communication skills approaches, and qualitative evaluation of approaches such as delayed prescribing and comparing GP and nurse practitioner perspectives on the challenges of prescribing antibiotics out of hours (UNITE). Other studies include exploring how GPs communicate with patients presenting with symptoms that may indicate cancer (CATRIC), the use of patient-reported outcome measures in depression (PROMDEP), and work on the placebo and non-specific therapeutic effects in consultations for pain, aiming to reduce the use of anti-inflammatories.

Diagnosis and prognosis

Work in this theme includes prospective observational studies, routine data studies, qualitative studies, diagnostic studies and randomised controlled trials that aim to improve the management of infections, asthma and COPD, mental health problems, atrial fibrillation and cancer. Recent and ongoing studies are on the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of COVID-19, diagnosis of sore throat, using routine record data to explore variations in outcome for people with asthma and COPD, evaluating the use of a FeNO-guided approach to managing asthma, and identifying whether biomarkers can predict progression with the Respiratory Biomedical Research Centre. We are also developing evidence for best practice in the early detection of cancer in general practice, building on the 20,000 patient CANDID cohort and in the longer-term support of survivors of cancer, working with Macmillan Cancer Support.

Managing and implementing change and new process

Making Every Contact Count

Physical Activity Clinical Champions (PACC)

Supporting others to be physically active

Social, welfare, legal and money guidance for social prescribing

Shared Decision Making delivered by Personalised Care Institute

Core Skills delivered by Personalised Care Institute

Mental Health Awareness Training

Psycological First Aid

Suicide Awareness Training

Connect 5

Personalised Care

The Leadership Academy

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