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Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Teaching PCTs ; All you ever wanted to know…..
Stephanie CarsonHead of College
Outline
• Who and what are Teaching PCTs• About Tees and Durham• Getting started - systems and
processes• Keeping going- what are we doing?• Where do we go next?
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Who are we?
•
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
What are Teaching PCTs?
• Recruitment and retention difficulties
• Areas of high health and social care need
• Education and development
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Teaching PCT….
• ‘Live’ from 1 April 2002• Key posts filled summer 2002• College steering group August
2002• Development of workstreams from
September 2002• Full core team in place May 2003
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Tees Valley and County Durham
• 10 PCTs – circa 167 practices• Four higher education providers
including…• Post Grad Institute – medical and dental
input• 6 Social Services Departments• Co-terminous with Workforce
Development Confederation and Strategic Health Authority
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Where are we?
StocktonDarlington
Durham
Derwentside
Tyne & Wear
Durham & Tees
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Sunderland Teaching PCT
Tees Valley & County Durham
An early definition Learning is derived from ……..‘Leornung’ a Northumbrian verb
used by St Cuthbert, Holy Island in the 8th Century
[from work now in Durham Cathedral]
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Learning Culture
Organisational Learning
‘An organisation’s rate of learning should be equal to, or greater than, the rate of change in their environment.’
Reg Revans
What does this mean for PCTs? Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Drivers for learning organisations
• Workforce demands• Technology• Policy• Ability to work through change• Improved performance• Leadership• Client/User/Carer as the centre
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Values and Ethos
• Value & recognise the needs of front line staff
• Integrate teaching and learning in the workplace
• Research, develop & share good practice• Provide better care• Develop a vibrant health economy• Support lifelong learning-- Student to
retirement and beyond! Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Partnerships….
• PCTs• WDC• Higher and Further
Education - NHSU• Local Authority• Prisons• Patient /carer• Learning Skills
Councils
• NHS Direct• Ambulance• Acute Trusts• NatPaCT• Learning Alliance• Voluntary sector • PALS • ….for starters
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Primary Care College WDC NatPaCT Purpose To create a learning and development
network, sharing resources and working to recruit and retain staff. Work builds on existing initiatives in the PCTs and seeks innovative and effective solutions. The approach is inclusive, involving clinical and non-clinical staff from primary and community care, as well as staff from Social care and the prison health service.
To deliver a health and social care workforce capable of implementing the NHS Plan, working in partnership with our member organisations.
NatPaCT works with Primary Care Trusts to help them learn and grow together as connected and competent organisations and leaders of radical change to improve health and services for PCTs.
Dimensions 10 PCTs across Tees and Durham 167 practices Developing links with Social Services and Prison Healthcare
10 Pct’s, 5 Secondary Trusts, 6 Local Authorities, Independent Care Sector, Voluntary Care Sector, Prison Healthcare across Durham & Tees Valley
National team entering year two of three-year initiative. Local Facilitator works across 16 PCTs in the North East of England.
Resources National funding for two years £300k for Year One
Non-medical circa 20million Medical circa 25million
? to be agreed for next financial year
Role Develop a learning network across health and social care sector and share/spread of recruitment & retention initiatives
Workforce Planning, Workforce Expansion, Modernisation, Commissioning of education and training, Modernising learning
Working with PCTs on organisational development – national and regional programme of events/development
Links WDC workforce development information across primary/community care
Recruitment and retention initiatives Projects funded by WDC eg
recruitment and retention Changing Workforce Programme WDC rep on College Leading on developing national Teaching PCT competencies
Teaching PCT Director member of Corporate Management Group
Head of College on Commissioning Group
HEI Providers Changing Workforce Programme Learning and Skills Councils FE Colleges Connections
Matched funding support with WDC and Primary Care College on projects
Regular meetings between Facilitator and Head of College
New stakeholder group to be established across Tees/Durham
Links with NatPaCT & WDC
How does it work?
• Systems and processes – less emphasis on structure initially
• Networking model – small core team• College – steering group• Sub groups for some workstreams
established• Lead PCTs to play increasing role
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Systems and Processes
• Criteria• Project Management• Evaluation culture• Teaching PCT competencies• Assessment – CHI• Funding & Planning• COMMUNICATION
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Criteria
• The PCTs regard the work as a priority ( fits with their strategic direction)
• Resources can be identified to support the project
• The work can be evaluated – and tansferable/adaptable to other PCTs
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Competencies for TPCTs
• Clarify governance arrangements• Partnership working - agreements pan PCT• Seeking out external funding for projects• Strategic approach to recruitment and
retention - with WDC• Develop links with Library Alliance network to
support education/EBP• Workforce development and commissioning-
putting primary care on the WDC map
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Using Action Learning…..
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Developing the Learning Network
• PCT engagement• Influencing proposals• Feedback and evaluation• Partnership with Workforce
Development Confederation • Funding streams
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Communication…… communication…..communicatio
n• Key stakeholder events• Themed seminars• Roadshows• Executive Committees• Existing meetings –practice managers• Leaflets ; Q&A• Speakers packs• Website
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
What have we started?
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Workbased learning
recognition
Identify resources/baselines
accessible
Recruitment & Retention
• Toolkit for practices• Telephone survey • Seminars• Linking initiatives – international
recruitment ( WDC)• Retention essential – retirement a focus• Impact of GMS contract & appraisal
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Learning Survey - NHSU
• What resources do we have?• What learning activities are people
undertaking?• When does most learning take
place• …….. And where?• How do people prefer to learn?
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Learning centre - NVQs
• Need to develop the infrastructure – SKILLED assessors, protected learning time
• Increase access and awareness• Use Learning Accounts funding to
better effect• Skills escalator – Stockton
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Prison Healthcare
• PCTs commissioning prison healthcare
• PCTs talking to each other• Awareness of need to develop
continuity of care – family – cycle of health problems
• How to improve the links across health and Home Office
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
…..and the rest
• First Contact testbed site link with Emergency Care See & Treat
• Higher Professional Education• Intermediate care ( Health & Social
Care NVQ)• GP Appraisal
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Where to next?
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Work with regeneration schemes – community involvement
Skills escalator
NSHU
E-learning
Careering into the NHS
Influence commissioning & curriculum design
Primary Care College – Tees Valley & Durham
Create time to reflect ……
On our career choice
Career development
Our future
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