External Events and Training

Personal Wellbeing is about your overall assessment of how well you feel about yourself and your life, including happiness, meaning, and control.
How is your personal wellbeing? Are you happy, positive and in control of your life? Or are you in need of some support and understanding?

Suitable for:

All staff working in General Practice.

Course summary:

This course will help you explore your own wellbeing and discuss how you can maintain your wellbeing through evidence based approaches and practical exercises.

Course format:

The course will be run via zoom – a joining link will be shared with you a few days before the event.

Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

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You are invited to attend the following Primary Care programme. A Certificate of Attendance will be issued along with a Personal Development Plan summary form, which will be supplied for your portfolio. Any lecture notes provided by the speakers will be available to download. Free to attend.

11.45am Registration

12noon Light Lunch

1.00pm Managing Hormonal Changes ib the Life Stages of Women
Dealing with the perimenopause & menopausal transition
HRT: time for a comeback
*What do we mean by HRT *Different regimes *Facts & fiction about risks & benefit
*Women with complex problems & early menopause *Starting & stopping *Local HRT
Mr Tonye Wokoma – City Healthcare Partnership CIC, Hull

2.15pm Refreshments

2.45pm Endometriosis and Fibroids
Mr Kevin Phillips – Spire Hull & East Riding Hospital

4.00pm Questions, Discussion – Close

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This interactive course will explore ways in which you can improve the Practice Team’s Wellbeing.

Through practical exercises we will explore wellbeing activities that have proved useful in local practices. By the end of the session, you’ll leave with a toolkit of activities and ideas to consider introducing in your own practice to support a healthier, more positive work environment.

You will leave with various activities for you to consider introducing in your own practice.

Suitable for: GPs, partners, practice managers / senior managers, team leaders.

We will run various versions of this course with each version focussing on a different area of team wellbeing, such as: Improving team communications with huddles and civility.

North Yorkshire & Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

For more details and online booking click Learn More below.

Are you involved in the future planning of your practice?

This course is aimed at those who are involved it the future planning within their practice. This can be GP partners, practice managers, finance managers or salaried GPs with an interest in developing their skills for future partnership.

This course will:

• Discuss how to assess your current position and make effective decisions on future goals and aspirations and willingness to change
• Look at ensuring the practices values and ethos are aligned to decision making and team development
• Review and prioritise strategies for issues inside your control and contingency measures for those outside your control

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Learn from specialists on pancreatic cancer during a free webinar and Q&A session, hosted by GatewayC – the leading earlier cancer diagnosis resource for primary care professionals.

Designed by the NHS for the NHS, GatewayC offers free evidence-based courses, bite-sized cancer education, podcasts, webinars and more to support earlier and faster cancer diagnosis.

This live webinar will cover:
• Patterns of vague symptoms should raise suspicion of pancreatic cancer
• Helpful primary care investigations
• The significance of family history

You’ll hear from expert speaker Dr Andrew Millar, Consultant Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist, who will also discuss pathways for suspected pancreatic cancer and the NHS Pancreatic Cancer Case Finding Pilot, followed by a live Q&A.

This session is designed for GPs and primary care professionals.

Can’t make it? You can watch on demand on the GatewayC website after the event has finished.

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If you are a partner GP, a practice manager or a senior manager and you are looking to make improvements within your practice then the Practice Systems Resilience course may be a great place to seek help and direction.

This programme will help you to:

• Reflect on the resilience of your own organisation (using the Healthy Practice framework)
• Review Values and share system resilience initiatives/processes that are working well for your organisation
• Determine and discuss systems that you may wish to have in place
• Discover tools and techniques to aid your organisation to become more resilient
• Consider leadership models to develop the team and enhance practice communications

The practice systems covered within this course will include:

• Effectiveness of clinical systems
• Effectiveness of practice management systems
• Patient experience

Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

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This meeting will discuss the clinical pathway for the Aortic Stenosis (AS) patient and related matters. View the agenda for the meeting. Book a place at the meeting.

Suitable for: all members of the practice team.

This course will equip you with the tools and skills to have empathetic, confident, and productive conversations with your team about how reasonable adjustments can support neurodivergent individuals. We’ll also guide you to relevant legal information and help reduce any fear or uncertainty around these discussions. The benefits and insights gained will extend beyond supporting neurodivergent colleagues—they’ll strengthen your whole team and highlight the valuable contributions neurodiversity brings to the workplace.

Feedback received on the best aspect of the course:

“Clear but detailed. Great toolkit given to use.” 

Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

Click Learn More below for full details and online booking.

This is a bite sized workshop for anyone who wants to set up an effective appraisal system at work, or feels their current system is lacking in some way.

We look at the purpose of appraisal, boundaries, scope and style, and consider the pros and cons of various forms. We look at GP, nurse and non-clinician appraisal, how to reflect and how to demonstrate quality improvement in appraisal documentation.

As with all our courses you will come away with a 3-point action plan based upon your (and your organisations) development needs in this area.

Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

Click Learn More for full details, cost and booking.

Suitable for: practice management, team leaders/supervisors, Partners.

This course will help you discover:

• The definition of good and bad leadership
• Important tools to take back to your organisation to develop leadership skills
• Your own leadership action plan

The course objectives are:
1. To define good and bad leadership, and explain why we are all leaders
2. Share ways to evaluate the leadership and culture of an organisation
3. Share important tools to take back to your organisation to develop leadership skills
4. To formulate your own leadership action plan

The course will be run via zoom – a joining link will be shared with you a few days before the event.

North Yorkshire & Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

Click Learn More below for further details, cost and online booking.

This course is suitable for individuals in salaried or trainee roles, as well as others considering partnership—including practice managers and nurses. Partners in their early years who feel they would benefit from refreshing their understanding of core responsibilities and skills may also find it valuable.

Throughout the session, you’ll take part in several exercises designed to help you explore your own learning needs within the partnership, and you’ll leave with practical ideas and actions to bring back to your practice for further development.

Course Summary

Over the two-hour session, we will:

• Explore the challenges of being a business owner while continuing to deliver clinical duties
• Review the essentials of partnership, including business and financial responsibilities
• Consider the resilience required within a partnership to ensure it functions effectively

Feedback received for this course:
‘‘Excellent informative session! I’ll be back to book the Business Planning course once I become partner.’’
‘’ Well presented. Some really handy take home messages.’’

North Yorkshire & Humber practice staff will now be required to pay a course fee which has been subsidised by GPMplus. These places are limited and are only eligible to be booked by staff working in an NHS practice, within Humber and North Yorkshire ICB.

Click Learn More below for more details and online booking.