August Education

This months tutorial is by Dr Suzanne Hogg on Bisphosphonates.
It will be held between 1400 and 1500 on Thursday the 9th August at the Rowan Centre, PBL.

Other educational events in August include:

2nd Journal Club presented by Dr Jon Valentine.
9th Journal club presented by Dr Lucy Oliver
23rd Journal Club presented by the new SPR
30th Journal Club presented by the new SHO

Please phone for more details and to check locations

Check back at the end of the month for more educational activities.

Please contact us if you would like to organise some educational activity with the specialist palliative care team for the coming months.

Surveys

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We value your feedback so please feel free to contact us if there are things which you wish to query or items on this site which you feel we have omitted.

REMINDER

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Educational Resources

Discussion with my GP colleagues has suggested that you would like more education from the specialist palliative care team. In response to this we will be posting links to educational resources on a monthly basis.
We hope to be able to post the presentations which have been given in the preceding month or so by the specialist palliative care team.

Below would be July's Offering if this area wasn't still under construction!

Breathlessness in 10'ish minutes By Dr David Plume

Survey

Dont forget to fill in the survey at the bottom of this page, we want to know your experiences of implementing GSF/LCP/PPC, and what we can do to help you.

July Education

This month there is a plethora of palliative care educational activities available.

Journal Club Thusdays 1300-1400 at the Rowan Centre Meeting Room
5th July
12th July
26th July

Monthly Tutorials 1400-1500 Rowan Meeting Room
12th July Tutorial on methadone.

Please phone for more details and to check locations

Check back at the end of the month for more educational activities.

Please remember that we can help you to look at possible educational events in your area with the specialist palliative care team, you only need to phone us!

Welcome

This is the first post on the new Central Norfolk Macmillan GP Facilitation Blog- or "How I came to love the syringe driver" for short!

My name is David Plume and I am the new (relatively!) Macmillan GP Facilitator for Primary Care.

I worked extensively in oncology and palliative care as a trainee and after my VTS I worked as a GPwSI splitting my time between primary care and palliative care in Colchester.
I moved to Norfolk in 2004 to work initially for the PCT and then as a partner at Attleborough Surgeries.
More recently I have split my time between palliative care and working as a GP in and around Norfolk.

I work closely with Elizabeth Stallwood, a very experienced specialist palliative care nurse with a wide range of community and hospital experience accross the NHS and private organisations.
She has been working with a number of you for the last year or so on end of life care especially the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) and its implementation in the community.

We have joined forces to look at the implementation of the LCP, GSF (Gold Standards Framework) PPC (Prefered place of care) and other palliative care initiatives across central Norfolk.

We are based at PBL and will be visiting practices across central Norfolk in the next few months to attend GSF meetings and to discuss what we can do to help with the often daunting task of organising optimal end of life care.

We hope to use this blog for a number of purposes including information and communication from the team, notification of upcoming educational events in palliative care, resource for teaching materials produced by the specialist palliative care team and general learning and communication resources.