Supporting GPs in Cornwall
The Training Hub is working to support the GP workforce in Cornwall to access career support, education and training, and updates in a more accessible way.
GP Workload Safe Workfing
GP workload, Safe Working, 25 in 2025 – workshop to make this happen.
We are pleased to announce a joint programme with Kernow LMC, The Cornwall Training Hub, and Collaborative Board to help us all progress towards the BMA safe working guidance. We often hear this called 25 patients a day. In recent months the question we are most frequently asked is “how do I do it?” Well we want to help show that path.
We are organising a series of 4 events throughout 2025, maybe even described as a course. The first session will be on 29th January in the evening and will be online. Moving to a Face to Face session in March to really drive it forward. With a further session in June to catch up and adjust, with summary or next steps planning in the Autumn.
The Training Hub has secured Dr Rachel Morris, host of the ‘You Are Not A Frog’ podcast, former GP, and specialist in Resilience at Work to support these sessions, we feel she will add the inspiration and mindset shift work to help us realise this is all within our power to achieve. We will then use local examples of practices doing 25 patients a day to show how it can be done within our Cornish system, without breaking patient relations or causing too much overflow into other areas of the system, ultimately improving patient care and our working lives. You will then take this back to practices to implement the changes. We aim to build some peer to peer support tools for the interim periods.
Our hope is 1-2 representatives from each practice will be able to join us, wherever you are on the journey to 25 a day. If you’re already there your role will be to help others, if you haven’t even thought about it then we will help you move that way. We are clearly developing a strategy to make this work, but peer support will be key too and we hope this can be the start of a grass roots support network that focuses on what matters most to us all, the quality of our working lives and our ability to deliver quality patient services.
Book a place on the first online session here – 29th January 2025, from 7 – 9pm.
Annual GP Update- Red Whale
The Training Hub brought the Red Whale GP Update course to Cornwall in February 2020, delivered as a face to face session. The course was attended by over 90 GPs and clinicians from Cornwall, and feedback from the event welcomed the opportunity to access CPD in this way locally. The Training Hub plan to bring this opportunity to Cornwall on an annual basis, face to face if possible, or virtually following the restrictions in place following the Covid-19 pandemic. If you are interested in hearing more about this opportunity and registering interest for future events, please contact us at:
Webinar Learning
The Training Hub have delivered a series of learning webinars in conjunction with partners and clinical experts across Cornwall. This first series of 5 webinars was focussed on Dementia, and the Training hub was fortunate to benefit from input from the National clinical lead for Dementia Professor Alistair Burns. The full series can be watched on demand via our Youtube channel via this link below…
The Importance of Diagnosis
Other webinars in the series that can be found on our Youtube channel are;
‘Three Ds’
‘Living Well with Dementia’- (Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management) with guest speakers Dr Henry Cameron (Consultant Psychiatrist – CFT), Teresa Parsons (Services Manager – Alzheimer’s Society) & Dr Allison Hibbert (GP Clinical Lead for Dementia, NHS Kernow).
‘Dying Well with Dementia’- With guest speakers Jay Over (Resus Officer – RCHT) & Dr Allison Hibbert (GP Clinical Lead for Dementia, NHS Kernow).
‘Legal Issues’- (Mental capacity act, deprivation of liberty and driving) with guest speakers Dr Vicky Brown (Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist) & Allison Hibbert (GP Clinical Lead for Dementia, NHS Kernow).
If you know of a specialist area that you think would benefit from a learning programme please let us know by email
Continuing Professional Development
We are happy to share links below for organisations that provide resources and e-learning for GPs. Please note these are not delivered by or in collaboration with the Cornwall Training Hub, but are those we have been made aware of.
Monthly face-to-face teaching at The Duchy Hospital via RCGP Tamar Faculty