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Updated Chronic Disease Management

General Practice has changed dramatically in the last ten years. We are now managing patients in the community who a few years ago would have needed hospital referral and follow up. As a consequence GPs, GP Registrars and Practice Nurses have to continually acquire and maintain new knowledge and skills.

 

One of the areas that have transformed the care and outcomes for patients are primary care evidence based chronic disease management services.

 

In order to deliver quality chronic disease management services within primary care we have to have:

 

  • A patient centred approach.
  • Consistency from the multidisciplinary team in terms of targets, schedules of care, clinical management etc.
  • Validated and maintained disease registers.
  • Robust call and recall systems.
  • Accessible, pragmatic, evidence based, primary care orientated guidelines.

 

Unfortunately one of the great challenges we face in general practice is keeping pace with the rapidly changing evidence base for chronic disease management. To cope with this and to standardise care SunnyBank Medical Centre has created (and update six monthly) these chronic disease management guidelines. As there are conflicting national guidelines in some areas of chronic disease management we have opted for pragmatic, achievable targets that fall between differing national guidelines.

 

 

Click on the topics below for the April 2008 updated evidence based guidelines 

from SunnyBank Medical Centre                   

 

NEXT UPDATE OCTOBER 2008

HDR News

 

Venue: HRI

 

Date: 9/9/08 (Lunch 13:00 and HDR start 14:00)

 

Topic: PBL 1 delivery and PBL 2 planning

 

Preparation: If you were unable to attend HDR on 2/9/09 then Read the PBL1 case scenario (click) and identify the clinical, non clinical and professional issues it raises.

 

Choose a learning need that matches to the curriculum, address it and bring it to the PBL feedback group.

 

 

News & Updates

 

The News page (click) - Keep up to date with what is happening, as it happens, whether it’s changes to the e-portfolio, nMRCGP assessments or our website.

 

HDR handouts (click) - Missed HDR? You can now catch up by reading the handouts.

 

Next Trainers' Workshop

 

Venue: Church Lane Surgery

 

Date: 11/9/08

 

Topic:

 

1.      Hot topics and burning issues.

2.      E-Portfolio Curriculum matching. LTFTT.

3.      Reflections on ARCP panels & Educational Supervision.

4.      Trainer participation in HDR.

5.      Feedback from Q&A meeting with Deanery and Trust

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Preparation: Read the excellent document Making the e-portfolio work for you (click) which outlines what your Registrar should and should not be doing!

 

Educational Supervision Deadlines

 

The next deadline is September 26th (Supplementary Yorkshire Deanery Review).

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