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.
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.
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