Similarly to last year, Duchy Hospital and the Referral Management Service have organised an MSK study day to take place on Friday 6th March 2020 for all GPs in Cornwall. This is a full MSK study day which will feature talks in the morning and a joint injection workshop in the afternoon. There will be sessions provided by local specialists along with GPs with a special interest.
Content of the day:
The morning will include talks on optimisation for surgery, the management of acute knee injuries and the use of knee braces, RightCare pathways for OA of hip & knee and more.
The afternoon will include joint injection workshop stations focussing on the shoulder, foot, knee and hand.
Full agenda to follow soon.
Location: Lanhydrock Hotel & Golf Club, Bodmin
This event is at no cost to the delegates as it is being sponsored by pharmaceutical companies by the purchase of exhibition stand space.
If you would like to register yourself or any GP colleagues for the event, please do so by return email or by calling 01872 226148.
Places for this event are limited so please book your place early in order to avoid disappointment.
Course Description
These sessions are facilitated by the Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO) Service for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly who will provide a mixture of presentations and case studies.
Intended Audience
This session is suitable for all safeguarding leads in organisations subject to Working Together 2018 which advises that employers, school governors, trustees and voluntary organisations (including faith based and sports organisations) should ensure that there are clear policies in place to handle allegations
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the session participants will be aware of
- what they should know and do to manage allegations against staff;
- how and when to involve the LADO;
- how to build a safer organisation and apply expected behaviours;
- how to record and learn from any safeguarding incidents
Booking Information
If you would like to book a place on this course please book online via Cornwall Learning Online.
If you do not already have an account, you will need to create one. Instructions on creating an account, booking a place and cancelling a place can be found in the link below under booking information section at the bottom of the page.
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/health-and-social-care/childrens-services/cornwall-and-isles-of-scilly-safeguarding-children-partnership/learning/safeguarding-training/
To allow us to allocate spaces fairly and suitably could you please include your safeguarding responsibilities, job role and the establishment in which you are employed in the special requirements box when requesting a place.
“two days to focus on this vitally important stuff that is so often missed out”
for GPs, and other primary care professionals managing patients with complex and chronic health problems.
By approaching everything through an up-to-date understanding of the links between human cognition, emotion and physiology this course can meet many learning needs:
- Help with complex patients and chronic disease, including ways to guide patients to make positive change, and how to avoid medicalising their difficulties, with particular focus on depression and diabetes.
- Getting beyond ideas like resilience and wellbeing to understand clearly what people - including professionals - need to thrive.
- How things like exercise and social prescribing and even the placebo response link to our core expertise in biological sciences.
- Avoiding dysfunctional and time wasting consultations, finding the right words to make consultations more enjoyable and productive
- No-nonsense summaries of trendy yet important subject such as the sleep, the micro-biome, and chronic inflammation
- A chance to get beyond the low-carb vs vegan “diet wars” to appreciate the dietary approaches that we can confidently expect to support health.
Your Course Tutor: Dr Andrew Morrice BSc MBBS MD DipHGP
Andrew has 20 years experience as a full-time GP, 35 years interest in diet and health, 17 years experience using the Human Givens approach, and 15 years teaching Whole Person Care at Bristol University Medical School. His courses are led with his particular brand of enthusiasm and good humour.
Who is this for?
Devised primarily for GPs (at all stages of experience) it will also suit many nurse practitioners, particularly those dealing with chronic disease, senior community nurses, physiotherapists and primary care team leaders.
Amongst the many things you may learn are:
- Ways of cutting through the complexity of modern health care to focus on the things that will make the biggest difference across the board, genuinely empowering paients and avoiding medicalizing their difficulties.
- Simple rules and learnable techniques on how to use language to best effect, including how to put across key messages without raising patient’s resistance to them.
- How to spot and understand trauma, one of the most common drivers of ill-health – particularly in functional disorders.
- A basic toolkit to ensure conversations, meetings and consultations work well
- How to understand “exercise” from a whole new perspective, clarifying quite how helpful it can be, and why people find it hard to engage in “exercise”.
- How thinking, feeling, emotion and physiology are linked, understand the three main physiological emotional responses and their relevance to what we do all day, every day.
- How an unusual feature of our biology means that emotional arousal can always be managedand how to teach people to calm down, within normal consultations.
- Why CBT works, despite being based on an out-of-date theory of brain function, why sometimes patients find it hard work, and where Mindfulness fits in.
- Why it is so hard to think rationally about diet and health, along with what we might conclude if we were to achieve rational thought on food: The dietary patterns proven, or highly likely, to either prevent or reverse the majority of chronic diseases.
- How to spot the basic parameters that can distinguish helpful from unhelpful nutritionresearch, and how to spot nonsensical dietary concepts.
- The basic principles to demystify the whole “microbiome thing” and what this may mean for our practice in the future
- A guide to the trendy but potentially mystifying topic of 'chronic inflammation'.
- A whole new way of seeing obesity and diabetes, and chronic disease management generally.
- New insights into depression, and new (and more satisfying) ways to respond to and help depressed patients, including an understanding of the role of inflammation in depression. And why this needn’t be about prescribing drugs.
- And more … !
...You will need to bring only an open mind and relaxed attitude.
