CPD Funded offers are continuing to be available to access for eligible individuals (nurses, nursing associates, and allied health professionals), in general practice in Humber and North Yorkshire.

• Please see document with full details of 2024/25 available funded training, and FAQs here.
• Details can also be found on the website here: HNY CPD Funded Training.
• If your PCN submitted any separate claims for individuals sourcing their own training outside of the central offer instead, we will be back in touch with details for you to invoice as soon as we receive the funds from NHSE.

Brief summary of included offers:

For full information on CPD funded training please see document with full details of available funded training and FAQs. Details can also be found on the website here: HNY CPD Funded Training. Please share with all relevant colleagues, don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries.

Further to the above item regarding CPD funded training, below are details of upcoming BiteSize CPD webinars live for booking, you can find details and booking links here:

BiteSize CPD Webinars – Training Hub (yhtraininghubs.co.uk)

Or on each webinar link below:

• 07/11/24 – 10.00-12.00 – Heart Failure Management in Primary Care |⇒BOOK HERE⇐|

• 21/11/24 – 10.00-12.00 – Blood Results: Investigation & Interpretation |⇒BOOK HERE⇐|

• 11/12/24 – 12.30-14.30 – Basic Contraception |⇒BOOK HERE⇐|

More dates and topics will be released soon, we’re prioritising the topics that have been most requested.

To be kept informed of the latest dates as they’re added, and to let us know what you’d like to see prioritised, subscribe here: CPD Webinar Subscription if you haven’t already.

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NHS England (NHSE) provides funding and support to develop trainee Advanced Practitioners (APs). Any employers who have a trainee starting their advanced practitioner programme from September 2024 to March 2025 can apply for NHS England funding support of £10,200 via the application portal here. We recommend that applicants read the guidance document (found here) prior to submitting their application as this is subject to an eligibility criteria.

The faculty still has funded spaces available and due to this, the portal has been reopened, extended beyond the September deadline.

To apply for the NHSE advanced practitioner support, please click here.

Key Points:

• The North East & Yorkshire Faculty Handbook contains details about the funding offer from NHSE, employers’ responsibilities/commitments and how to apply. If after reading these you still have questions, please email england.neyadvancedpractice@nhs.net
• Please note the document is a live document and may have updates added as and when.
• Each organisation applying must nominate a single contact to lead on the AP process and act as a key liaison for all enquiries relating to APs. All applications must be approved and submitted by the same lead contact.
• You will be required to submit a job description and/or job plan for your trainee AP(s) upon applying, to ensure your application is considered. Please note applications that are not completed in full or do not provide a JD/PS will be returned.
• If you require any support completing the form or have any issues accessing the form, please email: england.neyadvancedpractice@nhs.net
• We aim to notify your organisation of the outcome within 4 weeks of submitting your full application.
• For more information on the NHS England apprenticeship levy and levy transfer please view the flyer here.

Please note once funding is confirmed, organisations need to apply to their preferred HEI and follow their application process.

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Qualified Advanced Practitioner Masterclasses – hosted by Northumbria University

Northumbria University are hosting a suite of masterclasses aimed at Qualified Advanced Practitioners working across multiple specialities within the North East, North Cumbria & Yorkshire region.

These events are free to delegates and are kindly funded by NHS England North East & Yorkshire Regional Advancing Practice Faculty as well as supported by the International Journal of Advancing Practice, the Advanced Practice series – British Journal of Nursing, The Advanced Practitioner textbook series – Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Mobile Educational Learning Improving Simulation Safety Activities (MELISSA) and g&hCritCareEcho.

To book onto an upcoming masterclass or to view more information about the sessions please click the register links below

• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Advanced Critical Care Practitioner – 8th November 2024 – Click here to register
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Raising The Roof on Research – 15th November 2024 – Click here to register
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Raising The Roof on Research – 22nd November 2024 – Click here to register
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Multi-professional advanced practitioner workplace supervision – 7th February 2025 – Click here to register
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Mastering Simulation Modalities – 28th March 2025 – Click here to register
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner Masterclass – Introduction to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) – 4th April 2025 – Click here to register

Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) Training

Suitable for advanced practitioners and physician associates in primary care in the north east and north Cumbria

This PAD training is delivered virtually by Matthew Thomas (Consultancy Vascular Surgeon and Clinical Lead in Vascular Surgery at NUTH NHS FT). This is suitable for staff that require initial training or an update in PAD across North East and North Cumbria. This will cover the basics of PAD, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and annual monitoring.

This course is aimed at General Practice Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, Physician Associates and GPs.

Date: 28^th November 2024

Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm

Location: online

To sign up click here

Learning Outcomes

• What is PAD – pathophysiology?
• Risk factors for PAD
• Diagnosis criteria (ABPI classification)
• Treatment, management and optimisation options: Pharmacological, non-pharmacological, self-care
• Annual monitoring in primary care: what to consider in an annual review, red flags to monitor for, when to refer and to which service
• Point out useful guidelines and resources

If you have any queries, please contact the primary care training hub on: england.traininghub.nenc@nhs.net

Rural, remote and costal advanced practice – webinar

Are you an advanced practitioner interested in finding out how you could develop your experience and knowledge of rural, remote, or coastal healthcare?

Do you want to further develop the effective delivery of healthcare for improving the experiences and outcomes of care for patients, carers, and families in rural, remote, and coastal areas?

Or are you involved in planning the delivery or planning of healthcare services in remote, rural, or coastal areas and would like to find out how advanced practitioners can be supported to improve the delivery of care in those challenging environments?

If so, please come to this webinar being facilitated by the NHS England Centre for Advancing Practice together with the University of the Highlands and Islands and NHS Education for Scotland, which will explore education development opportunities for advanced practitioners in rural, remote and coastal areas.

When: Tuesday 15 October 2024 at 09:00 – 10:00

How to book: To book please click here.

Advancing Practice week events

University of Cumbria – Advanced Practice Conference

The University of Cumbria are hosting a virtual advanced practice conference which celebrate the advanced practice students and workforce, demonstrating the exciting work the trainee and qualified advanced practitioners have been doing.

When: Wednesday 6^th November 2024

Time: 09:30 – 16:30

Where: Online

To sign up for the even please register via the link here.

North East and Yorkshire Allied Health Professions Advancing Practice Conference

NHS England’s Health and Care Professions team have organised and Advanced Practice conference for Allied Health Professionals in the North East and Yorkshire. The event will include a variety of speakers and workshops, and the event is aimed at aspiring AHP advanced practitioners, current AHP advanced practitioners and service/strategic AHP leads.

When: Wednesday 6^th November 2024

Time: 09:30 – 16:00

Where: Odsal Stadium, Odsal, Bradford, BD6 1BS

A sign-up link is not yet available for this event but once this is available the faculty will distribute this. If you would like to receive information on this event once it is available, please email the faculty.

Centre for Advancing Practice Conference 2024 – Save the Date

The Centre for Advancing Practice Conference 2024 will return for 2024 and will see a wealth of talks, knowledge sharing and panels covering a variety of professions and specialties from across the UK and beyond.

When: Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 November 2024

Where: Online

The programme and registration will be available shortly. For updates on the conference please visit the website here.

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Apprenticeship Funding Guide

We have worked to create a guide to funding apprenticeships in the NHS. Some of topics covered in this guide include:

• Apprenticeship Levy
• Funding Bands
• Funding end-point assessment
• Funding apprentice salary

Read or download the Apprenticeship Funding Guide here.

A Managers Guide to Health and Care Apprenticeships

Find out how to recruit an apprentice to your team or develop your existing staff using apprenticeship programmes. We have worked to put together A Managers Guide to Health and Care Apprenticeships. Some of the topics included are:

• What is an apprenticeship?
• Contract of employment
• Apprenticeship qualifications
• Off the job training
• English and maths functional skills
• Apprenticeships – employer implementation flowchart

Read or download the Managers Guide to Health and Care Apprenticeships PDF here.

Understanding Apprenticeships – Return on investment

Wondering how to check if apprenticeships have provided a return on investment? Download the printable below to see a list of things you can measure.

Skills England and IfATE

Skills England has been established in shadow form within the Department for Education and is already taking on its important role in identifying skills gaps and talking to the key organisations that will need to work together to fill them, driving growth and providing opportunities to learners from all backgrounds, delivering outstanding skills for businesses of all shapes and sizes, right across the country.

The King’s Speech set out the Government’s intention to bring forward legislation to pass IfATE’s functions to Skills England. The important work employers and others have been doing with IfATE over the past 7 years to shape the skills system would then be taken on by Skills England.

https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/about/skills-england/

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Please find linked flyer for the NHS England, Levy Transfer Service. This service facilitates the transfer of funds from levy paying employers to non-levy paying employers to pay for apprenticeship training in primary and community care. If your practice plans to employ an apprentice, requesting a levy transfer via this service will mean you do not have to pay the 5% employer co-investment training cost. As 100% of the apprenticeship training costs are covered via a levy transfer.

All details are contained within the flyer.

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NHS England funds access to software that supports functional skills learning (until March 2027)

Suitable for: Functional skills learners

NHS England are providing access to bksb which is a software that supports functional skills learning and can help prepare employees who would like to undertake the function skills qualification.

How do I access bksb?

If your organisation already uses bksb and Open Awards through the previous NHSE funded contract you do not need to do anything differently, please continue to book exams and register learners on bksb as you already do.

However, if your organisation is new to accessing these resources please follow the below steps:

Step 1: Identify the member of staff who will be the point of contact for bksb

Step 2: Identify the learners who will use this product.

We don’t need to know names, but we ask that you give bksb an initial number of learners. Please only ask for the number you plan to use, as the number of users is limited, and we want as many people as possible to be able to access.

Step 3: Enrol your learners

Ask your nominated staff member to email: mailto:hee@bksb.co.uk to start the process and enrol learners.

Step 4: Complete and book your exam

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NEYLA are pleased to share that the Systems Collaborative Programme is now open for applications, and would be grateful if you could share this opportunity with relevant colleagues within your ICS and networks.

Commencing in December 2024, the programme is aimed at collaboratives – groups of 3-7 members working together to lead initiatives that improve health outcomes for your staff, population and community. Collaboratives can be multidisciplinary, cross-organisational, or cross-agency and programme is open to anyone working within the health and care system, regardless of grade, profession and employer.

The key benefit of the programme is that it offers experiential learning while working on an improvement in real time, through a mixture of group learning sessions and ring-fenced time for collaboratives to work on their project with an experienced organisational development facilitator, and has previously resulted in tangible outcomes that improve population health and tackle inequalities by developing collaborative leadership skills and building trust across organisational boundaries.

Past projects have included the development of workforce and primary care pharmacy strategies, Eden Together (a health outreach hub) and the establishment of integrated neighbourhood teams.

A briefing session is taking place at 9am on 17 October for those interested in learning more about the programme. Led by our programme faculty, this session offers potential participants the opportunity to find out more about the programme, ask questions and check that it is the right development for them. Applications are now open and close on 1 November 2024.

Please find the programme information pack here, which includes information on the programme, briefing session and applications process. This information can also be found on our website.

We would really appreciate if you could share this information within your networks, thank you for your continuing support.

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Free training webinar for practitioners on November 6th, 12.30pm – 2pm

Click here for details and to book

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Re: NHS England launch the Community Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship Programme.

We are excited to announce the launch of the Community Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship Programme. This programme will support Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians (PTPTs) to be employed and complete their full 24-month apprenticeship training within a community pharmacy setting. Upon completion of training and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) this will support community pharmacy to utilise the expertise and knowledge of registered pharmacy technicians as part of pharmacy services and wider reform

Funding Offer

We are offering a training contribution of £15,053 per trainee, per year for two years (24 months) to support community pharmacies in developing a PTPT programme that meets the GPhC IET standards for pharmacy technicians and the NHS England Education Quality Framework.

Next Steps

Application for funding is through expression of interest (EoI) submitted via an online application form. The application window will open on Monday 23 September 2024 until Sunday 13 October 2024.

We will be holding a webinar via MS Teams to provide more information on the programme including the application process and how to access apprenticeship funding. This will be repeated, please use the link below to attend on your preferred date. You need only attend one webinar date.

• 11am, Friday 27 September
• 2pm, Sunday 29 September
• 1pm, Wednesday 02 October
• 7pm, Tuesday 08 October

If you have any questions, please email england.wtepharmacy.ney@nhs.net with Community Pharmacy Technician Apprenticeship Programme in the subject field.

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> Please find the Pharmacy Education and Training Update October 2024 here <

In this month’s update from the School of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team, as we have trainees starting numerous programmes of learning, you will find information focussing on  expressions of interest, quality – national trainee survey and supervision of prescribing training to help support your workforce for all pharmacy sectors.

I hope this is helpful. If you require further information, please contact england.wtepharmacy.ney@nhs.net

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***Closing date for applications: 5pm on 22^nd October 2024.

Hosted by Sheffield Hallam University on behalf of NHS England in the North East and Yorkshire, the Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic Internship scheme is now open for applications for our next intake which will commence on 5th February 2025 and complete in October 2025. Please could you cascade this opportunity widely to your colleagues and networks. A summary of the scheme is provided below.

About the Internship opportunity

The Internship is the foundation programme of the NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic career development pathway, please see: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/academy-programmes/hee-nihr-integrated-clinical-and-practitioner-academic-programme.htm .

The 2024/25 internship cohort is open to an expanded group of registered health professionals (excluding doctors and dentists) including nurses, midwives, allied health professions, pharmacists and healthcare scientists. Applicants will be working in the NHS England North East and Yorkshire region, normally within an NHS organisation (or an organisation providing NHS services), however we are keen to widen this to registered professionals employed in other settings (e.g. social care).

The Internship offers a range of on campus and online teaching sessions combined with the opportunity to undertake a research project or knowledge mobilisation initiative supported by an expert clinical academic supervisor, or to undertake a project related to development of research culture within and across teams. The key components to the internship programme are:

1. A Planned Research Experience (30 days) supported by supervision and research mentorship where appropriate.
2. A Learning Package comprising of 2 days face to face learning (Sheffield Hallam University) and 4 half days of online learning.

Funding has been secured to support our next cohort in 2025 and the employers of successful applicants will receive £10,000 for the intern’s backfill and to support research expenses. The employing organisation of the clinical mentors (where required) will receive an additional £1200 to support their costs.

Please find application form here. Full details of the programme and the eligibility criteria can be found at https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/options/health-and-social-care/integrated-clinical-academic-programme-internship-scheme

For any queries please contact the Internship email address:  icainternships@shu.ac.uk

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The Multi-professional National Education and Training Survey (NETS) opens on Tuesday 1st October. The survey will be open for 8 weeks, closing on Tuesday 26th November 2024. This will be the sixth year running the NETS.

Please click on the following link to complete:  National Education and Training Survey 2024 (hee.nhs.uk)

About the NETS

The NETS is the only national survey open to all healthcare students, postgraduate doctors and dentists in training and apprentices, providing NHS England with essential feedback on induction, clinical supervision, facilities, learning opportunities, and teamwork that they experience. It also includes questions on health, wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion. The survey gathers opinions from learners about their time working and training in practice placements and training posts, asking them to provide feedback on what worked well and what they think could be improved.

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Skills for Health and NHS England have launched a survey on a new career framework that covers the range of non-medical roles in primary care and community services.

In light of the shift toward universal personalised care in England, the Primary Care & Community Services Multi-Professional Career Framework has been designed to help facilitate the development and expansion of the non-medical workforce which plays a crucial role in the delivery of joined-up, preventative care.

The development of the framework follows the Community Services Transformation Programme which found that out of hospital careers tended to be less attractive to newly qualified professionals due to a perceived lack of training, development and progression opportunities. By outlining clear career stages and progression routes, it is anticipated that new and improved career development opportunities will support the recruitment and retention of the non-medical primary care and community services workforce.

An expert reference group convened by Skills for Health and NHS England oversaw the development of the first iteration of the Primary Care & Community Services Multi-Professional Career Framework, and the views of stakeholders (including PCNs) are now being sought to help refine and improve the framework prior to its publication.

The survey is open until midday 25 October.

https://www.skillsforhealth.org.uk/news/survey-on-non-medical-primary-and-community-services-careers-launched/?_gl=1*14g3jop*_up*MQ..&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmOm3BhC8ARIsAOSbapXMQN6eNXBe4dEPrbNsZ_JCGCbvmnhTwQJGQxkg9ec-ef0GvRYMlJsaAlEkEALw_wcB

Please click here for the latest Humber and North Yorkshire workforce bulletin.