Extended Access

As previously highlighted in the December newsletter the Alliance now has the role of integrator within the development of our city wide extended access service. I’m delighted to report that Chrissie Todd, Practice Manager and Lead for the West Locality Extended...

Career Start Health Care Assistants

We will shortly be looking for expressions of interest from practices to host our 2nd cohort of career start HCAs.   Application packs will be coming out to all practices in the first instance followed by practice visits by the Career start Lead Nurse.  We are hoping...

Skills Bank

Work is well underway with the development of the skills bank; agreement around the benefits for SGPA membership but also developing a package to attract locums to work in Sunderland and make locum work more productive to practices. The challenge will be creating a...

Thornfields & Workflow Optimisation

The first Thornfield training sessions on read coding and medical terminology were very well attended, with positive evaluation. There are still places available on the later courses; 25/04/17 – Clinical Coding Read Version 2 – Trainer is Kay Ellermeyer 26/04/17 –...

Respiratory Service Update

The Respiratory post discharge review service started 06.01.2017,  Claire Adams is the respiratory nurse specialist who will be liaising between secondary and primary care to reduce the risk of avoidable hospital admissions. Proforma & pathways shared with...