Hampshire and Isle of Wight Continuing Professional Development

The Primary Care school are accepting applications for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) funding for allied health professionals, mental health practitioners, nurses and nursing associates employed in an NHS GP practice or Primary Care Network (PCN) within Hampshire and Isle of Wight (HIOW).

How to apply

All colleagues working in HIOW must submit a CPD funding request, before applying directly with the course provider. Our CPD opportunities are listed on this webpage with hyperlinks to view further details on each course.

Submit the Continuing professional development funding application Microsoft Form or scan the QR code to request funding.

Your funding request will be reviewed by the Primary Care School team, and you will receive an email outcome with details on how to apply via your chosen provider, should your request be approved.

If you any have questions relating to HIOW CPD, please email: england.primarycareschooltvw.se@nhs.net.

Live opportunities:

Asthma

Enhancing asthma care in professional practice

Foundations of managing asthma

Advancing asthma care

Advancing paediatric asthma care

Asthma foundation course

Introduction to paediatric asthma

Children and young people

Paediatric presenting conditions in Urgent and Primary Care (Level 6)

Paediatric presenting conditions in Urgent and Primary Care (Level 7)

Advancing paediatric asthma care

Introduction to paediatric asthma

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Enhancing COPD care in professional practice

Principles of COPD for professional practice

Advancing COPD care

COPD foundation course

Diabetes

Enhancing diabetes care in professional practice

Principles of diabetes for professional practice

Diabetes advancing care

Foundation course in diabetes care and management

Management of adult diabetes in Primary and Secondary Care

Frailty

Frailty as a long term condition

Older people and frailty

This course is available for 12 months from when you sign up and is fully chaptered, so you can learn in your own time and at your own pace.

About the course

The Red Whale older people and frailty course is designed to help you feel more confident in supporting our elderly patients – both at home and in nursing home settings. You will explore key concepts and skills in this area, such as:

• What is normal ageing… and what isn’t?
• The terrible triplets: frailty, multi-morbidity and polypharmacy
• How to do a really good medication review – and feel good about deprescribing!
• The 3D’s of deterioration: delirium, depression and dementia
• Common Primary Care problems: falls, recurrent infections and requests for antibiotics

General Practice Nurse (GPN) development

General Practice Nurse Foundations Course

The GPN Foundations course is a fully funded course for nurses who are new to General Practice (within the last year) in the HIOW Integrated Care System.

The course has been recommeded to GPNs who are new to general practice, or newly qualified, to support quality and consistency of the role, and to improve patient safety.

The programme can be undertaken at Level 6 (degree level) or Level 7 (masters level) and is delivered through attendance at interactive seminars, skills-based presentations and through building a portfolio of evidence from your practice.

Learners will require 25 days study leave over six/seven months in order to complete the programme requirements.

For further details please contact the course lead, Sharon Waight swaight@bournemouth.ac.uk or visit the Bournemouth University website.




The General Practice Nurse update course

By attending this course you can earn six CPD points and get 12 months access to Red Whale Knowledge with 900+ written resources, including downloadable, ready written protocols, access to Red Whale online handbooks and a search function to support you to answer questions, in or out of practice.

Topics covered

Allergy and Immunology
Cardiovasular
Children and Young People
Contraception
Dermatology
Diabetes
Emergencies and Injuries
ENT and Oral Health
Gastroenterology
Infectious Diseases and Travel
Interpreting Blood Results
Lifestlye
Menopause
Mental Health
Pregnancy
Respiratory

Heart disease and heart failure

Foundations of managing chronic heart failure

Tackling the complexity of managing heart failure

Advancing heart failure care

Coronary heart disease for Primary Care

Heart failure foundation course

History taking and assessment

Enhanced assessment skills for clinical practice

Risk assessment and decision making in practice

Diagnostic assessment and decision making

History taking and physical assessment across the lifespan

History taking and assessment

Independent prescribing

Independent and supplementary prescribing

Non-medical prescribing update day 

Independent and supplementary prescribing

Long term conditions

Care of clients with long term conditions (Level 6)

Care of clients with long term conditions (Level 7)

Community rehabilitation for long-term conditions

Mental health

Impact of mental health on long term conditions

Understanding mental health in Primary Care – 10/11 September 2024 only

Minor illness

Care of clients with minor illness (Level 6)

Care of clients with minor illness (Level 7)

Musculoskeletal

Musculoskeletal practice in Primary Care

Older people

Community rehabilitation: healthy ageing

Postgraduate certificate in practice education (PG Cert)

PG Cert in practice education

Starting September 2024, the PG Cert in practice education at University of Winchester is open to nurses, midwives and AHPs.

It is a one year, part-time distance learning course.

Practice supervision and assessment

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

Visit our General Practice nursing webpage to sign up for standards for student supervision and assessment (SSSA) training.

Please note, you do not need to fill in the funding application form for this course.

PCN support

PCN support

Whether you are new to Primary Care and need a good foundation or are evolving in your role and want to stay up to date, keeping on top of everything needed to deliver safe practice is a formidable task. This PCN support programme consists of 12 months of online learning with content including:

• 40 hours of on-demand clinical video content to watch in your own time and at your own pace
• Bite size modules covering a wide range of key Primary Care topics
• 12 months access to ‘Red Whale Knowledge’, with hundreds of online written articles to support your learning and practice protocols to help you in consultations

Spirometry

Advancing spirometry

Women’s health

Women’s health for Primary Care clinicians – 10/11 September 2024 only

Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) long acting reversible contraception (LARC) training

Menopause – the foundations – 7 & 21 October or 4 & 18 November

Coming soon (please refer back to this webpage for updates):

Injection therapy

Theory and practice of injection therapy – funding not currently available