Thursday, 19 April
There’s so much going on that it feels like
I’m running to stand still this week. Now the Bill is enacted,
there is a furious haste to have the right structures in place.
I know some members still don’t feel informed
enough about what we as a College are doing to steer the best
course through what feels like endless changes and missives that
dominate our day-to-day clinical lives. We have a Council meeting
next week with important papers about how Faculties and Divisions
can better work to inform members, hear and act on your concerns,
and support you all in putting your case within your employing
organisations as to what will deliver best patient care and
influence commissioners. I will also continue to update everyone on
our ongoing commissioning work at local, specialist and national
level.
We have recently appointed Dr Ellen Wilkinson
as the new Chair of our Revalidation Committee, and yesterday I had
a really good discussion with her about the plans she has in mind
to ready us all for revalidation. I am also particularly keen to
look at how we can better support new consultants in the first five
years of their consultant careers, and equally how we can support
consultants gradually reducing from full-time work to part-time
work as they approach retirement. So there are lots of challenges
here for our revalidation group and also for CPD.
I’m attending a joint conference between
medical psychotherapy and general practitioners in Manchester
tomorrow. So time, hopefully, for mindfulness, kindness and
reflection. GPs should be in good humour as they have been
successful in their bid to
extend GP training to four years. Extended and enhanced
training will include a greater focus on mental health, which has
to be good for our service users and carers. It will also open up
opportunities to learn from each other’s skills sets, which will
hopefully lead on to true integrated care. We are meeting with
people from the RCGP next week to look at the training and
education implications and opportunities.
Sue
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