CP Training Hub 2023 Conference

Paula has dedicated her life to campaigning for equality of Health and Social Care for Intellectually Disabled and or Autistic people.  She is an ambassador for several charities and organisations. In 2018, Paula successfully launched a parliamentary petition asking for doctors and nurses in England to receive mandatory training in Learning disability and Autism awareness. As a direct consequence Government announced that Health and Social Care Staff would receive The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training in Learning Disability and Autism

Louise has spent 25 years of her nursing career supporting primary care. Working full time in general practice for seventeen of those years, she was one of the first general practice nurses in the North of England in 2014 to pioneer shared medical appointments supporting communities living with long term conditions to access high quality nursing care. This integrative model still operational today has supported evidence-based health outcomes enabling nurses to create peer- led learning in public health and long-term conditions in partnership with patients’ families and carers.

Jessica Randall-Carrick works as a GP in Peterborough and Co-ordinates the Deep End Network across C&P and the East of England region. Jessica is passionate about improving the health & wellbeing of those in the most challenging socio-economic circumstances and seeks to connect with others to collaborate and advocate for such individuals & communities.  She seeks to ensure that systems and processes ensure good quality, equitable, person-centred clinical care. https://www.deependeastofengland.co.uk/

‘Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century’ – Lancet. Dr Rebecca Davis, Chair of Greener Practice Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and a local RCGP Net Zero advisor, will be delivering a talk on how healthcare and our environment are interconnected.

Heather is a former general practice nurse and director of primary care, who uses asset based community development to innovate and co-produce solutions with local people. She founded BreathChamps CIC: a social enterprise offering social prescribing solutions for adults and children with asthma. In 2018 Heather won the Sue Pembrey Award for person and community centred care and has also received the Open University Business School Alumnus Award for her ‘Outstanding Contribution to Society’. “Today’s Primary Care Networks have a role in engaging and empowering their communities to tackle health inequalities and support long term conditions. But how do primary care teams do this when they feel so overwhelmed?”

Gill specialises in bringing teams together to improve outcomes through working with individuals. She is an accredited mediator and is passionate about improving individuals’ potential. Gill co-authored ‘Taking Personal Responsibility for your NHS Pension’ – a guide for GPNs’ and works with NHSE and other stakeholders to raise awareness of the issues faced by employees in General Practice. She facilitates leadership support groups for nurses with Florence Nightingale Foundation, is a non- executive Director of Risky Business Events, and is a Trustee for Signpost Watford (counselling services for young people) and The Eaton Fund.

After a successful career in education and training, Jan joined the NHS in 1990 and spent 27 years in primary care management. She frequently represented the interests of her colleagues at a local level, as well as devoting time to the professional development of colleagues in the broader NHS. Alongside her NHS work, and since 2017, Jan has been providing training, coaching, mentoring and consultancy primarily to General Practice as an Independent Consultant. She is passionate about what she perceives to be flaws in the current system of NHS Pension administration, particularly in primary care. As well as actively campaigning for change, Jan delivers training and practical interventions with the aim of enabling staff to monitor their own pension and for employers to administer it correctly.

Tom is a GP with a special interest in Men’s Health. He is keen on looking at ‘Real World’ ways of improving the management of Men’s Health issues in the current system pressures. Tom’s session will provide a Review of the management of Lower Urinary Tracts Symptoms in Men, Erectile Dysfunction, PSA testing and other Mens’ Health Presentations in Primary Care.

Craig works mainly across Hertfordshire, and responds solo to both time-critical and lower acuity calls. As part of that role he is trained in the telephone triage of 999 calls, rotates into Primary Care, and is undertaking his independent prescribing course.  He is also an Associate Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, an ALS instructor and an Instructor for the BASICS Pre-Hospital Emergency Course that many AHPs and military personnel undertake prior to working in events or mass gatherings, as well as extensive event medicine experience.

Jan Gower has spent the past 22 years working as a practice nurse and advanced nurse practitioner as well as working in a commissioning role and in higher education. She previously worked as a haematology nurse, a midwife and has spent time in research and healthcare journalism. She is currently the Nurse Lead for the GPN Fellowship Scheme at the Training Hub.

Jan’s interests lie in all long-term conditions but particularly feels that hypertension and lipid management are areas that all nurses in general practice should be able to manage and/or advise on as not disease entities in themselves,  but risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

Jenny works 6 sessions a week as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) in a large teaching Practice just outside Cambridge. She works in a team of ANPs alongside General Practitioners, trainee GPs, Allied Health Professionals and a team of nurses. She sees patients virtually or face to face, assessing undifferentiated conditions and either treating or referring to specialists as necessary. She also manages patients with long -term medical conditions including hypertension and diabetes. She has a real passion for patient centred health prevention. She runs training within the practice, for local clinicians as well as at National conferences. She has set up and lead on group consultations within our PCN working with trained facilitators.

Locally she is the AHP and nurse lead for our Training Hub and has various national roles sitting on, NHS England Advanced Clinical Practice group and regional HEE general practice nurse network.

She has represents the Royal College of GPs as their AHP/Nurse Champion where she is seeking to raise the profile of AHPs and GP Nurses and promote high quality training and development of these roles within Primary Care.

Kelly has led the charge on social prescriber link workers and personalised care since launching the service 4 years ago ahead of the NHS funded ARRS roles, she leads the personalised care team at the PCN an holds a reduced case load of patients herself. In addition to this she sits on the Advisory board of NALW helping to influence national policy and was East of East regional Champion for 2 years.

Kelly has worked alongside the clinical team to establish Group consultations, taking on the role of Lead facilitator, recruiting and training new clinicians and facilitators, expanding the programmes scope of practice. Their programme has recently been asked to contribute to the Group consult research being carried out by the University of Oxford