Present: 

Brad Cheek, Tim Sanders, Bruce Helme, Sam Frost, Hannah Judson

Matters Arising:

OOH course

• Single days works well
• Would be too intense if one whole week
• CREA was MUCH BETTER venue
• In retrospect how good was it?
• 9/10
• Adastra training
• Better in small groups
• pairs / threes
• Part of HDR?
• ?half of eportfolio session
• ?session in own right

Hospital at Night Scheme - update

• Brad: Probaby starting in April
  
  

Borrowdale for all - ideas

• Would be better not in school hols
• Plan well in advance
• Aim for first week of July
• Action
• Tim lead
• Need to meet ASAP
• Theme
• Venue
• GPR involvement

Scheme bulletin

• "Very good"
• A lot of work to start off with, but getting better now
• Website - "very impressive"
• Communication over email
• Please read them!
• Make professional and timely response
• Professional emails NOT same as personal ones
  

Study leave

• Deanery is currently looking at this

Funding available when in hospital posts at the moment

• Margaret Tait is contact, in Education Centre

Funding is not available whislt in General Practice

Study Leave is 30 days/ year

• 15 of these days are taken by HDR programme

We have negotiated with departments that courses DO NOT have to apply to the specific post you are doing

• just need to be appropriate for training as a whole
  

Eportfolio

• More guidance on what is required for eportfolio  eg. PSQ
• Incorporate into eportfolio session
• Scheme website
• gp-training.net
• Bradford VTS
• RCGP website
• Roadmap
• Rules are updated quite frequently
• We are not always alerted to this
• Need to keep eye on RCGP website
  

Difference in experience between GP practices

• Programme accepts this
• View it as positive
• There are quite large differences
• not much that we can do to change this
• Practice swap
• Yes, yes, yes!
• If you want to
• Need to negotiate and organise yourself
• with support of trainer
• who has final say
• and TPDs
• ITP is opportunity to do this
  

Time out of busy rota to attend HDR

• A & E
• Obs & Gynae
• This is your study leave
• should be released to attend
• need to be assertive
• Need to accept that "needs of service" may dictate that you can't come occasionally
  

Guidance on suggested courses / diplomas
A lot of information already on website, if specific additional guidance required, please speak to a TPD.

Splitting ITP

• E.g. dermatology + eyes

Scheme is open to discussion though need to make sure sufficient time in each post to learn still remains

Dermatology post

• ?scope for ITP
• GPRs are encouraged to think flexibly and ask if they have special requirements
  

Teaching sessions fortnightly

• This has been considered
• Conclusion is that on balance, weekly half days are better
• though accept that this is a compromise
  

Christmas "do"

• 18th December at Irena's house
• Families invited
• Email on its way
  

Date of next meeting 19/1/11

Tim Sanders 11/1/11