DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES

Wednesday 17th February 2010

Have your say- get involved in the debate and shape the future

The consultation event will include presentations and discussions about:

    ~Education issues

    ~Future roles within the team

    ~Future service delivery and configurations

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Paediatric Nurses' Forum

The Inaugural meeting of the Forum was held in July 08, the Terms of Reference are:

• To provide a forum to support those nurses involved in the care of children and young people (C & YP) across the partnership area
• To facilitate networking and the sharing of ideas / examples of good practice  - to encourage evidence-based practice
• To identify & analyse service / workforce needs and to consider the mechanisms to address these
• To influence national and regional initiatives for nurses working with C & YP, and to consider the implications for local areas
• To recognise training & educational needs and to influence strategies to address these.

Nurses Forum Workshops

Thursday, 15th October 2009

Transition and Adolescent Health Services

Workshop was hosted by Bruce Kirk from the West Midlands Government Offices in Birmingham City Centre. A well supported event with 24 Nurses and a Social Worker attending the event.

Copy of Programme

Workshop Evaluation Feedback

Summary report

PiP & Nurses Forum presentation - Lesley Hines

Adolescent Health plans & 'Your Welcome' Quality Standards presentation - Bruce Kirk

e-LfH presentation - Abdul-Khaliq Nathekar

For links to the 'Your Welcome' Quality Standards and e-LfH please click here

Thursday, 3rd September 2009

Pandemic Flu preparations

Copy of programme

West Midlands SHA Regional Overview presentation by Helen Hipkiss

Role of Programme Consultant, Children's Services by Helen Hipkiss

Wednesday 10th June 2009

The Nurses Workshop took place on Wednesday 10th June at Stafford PGMC.  There were two presentations at this event - Sue Chapman, Nurse Consultant (Acute & High Dependency Care) at Great Ormond Street talked about the GOSHman Paediatric Acuity & Nursing Dependency Assessment (PANDA) tool they have developed and Chris Mason from E-learning for Healthcare talked about their work around Adolescent Health. 

To visit the e-LfH website click here

Copy of programme

Summary notes from the event

PANDA Tool presentation_Sue Chapman

Evaluation                                                                                                                                                                                        

13th November 2008                   

Following the inaugural meeting of the Nurses’ Forum (held in July 2008), the first workshop for nurses was held at Stafford PGMC in November. This was well attended with 29 nurses from a variety of acute and community disciplines participating.

There were two speakers at this event: Liz Morgan - Professional Adviser for Children, Young People and Families at the DH and Kerry Cook - Senior Lecturer for Children's and Young People's Nursing at Coventry University.

Presentations from this event  

Evaluation feedback

Future Health Policy related to Children & Young People - The Contribution of Children's Nursing - Liz Morgan, Professional Advisor, Department of Health

Assessment of the ill/injured child & young person - Kerry Cook, Senior Lecturer

PiP Presentation - Julia Greensall, PiP

Nurses Forum
There are several ideas for future events, so further information will be forthcoming in due course.
If you would like more general information about the Nurses’ Forum - or would like to propose ideas for future workshops / study days - please contact either Julia Greensall on Julia@greensall.com or Alison Wood at Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust on alison.wood@sath.nhs.uk  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                The Inaugural meeting of the Nurses Forum 2008...                                                                                               

Held on Wednesday 2nd July, was well attended. 19 nurses attended, representing 13 Acute Trusts and 1 PCT. All who attended agreed that there was a need for such a Forum.

Some of the key issues / challenges facing nurses, that will be considered through the Forum are:
- considering the impact on nurses of initiatives such as: Lord Darzi's review, Nursing   Futures, Future Nurses, EWTD (relating to junior doctors' hours) and Modernising Nursing Careers;
- developing particular areas, for example, the Paediatric Surgery Standards relating to the role of nurses / environment issues following the audits PiP undertook ( in 2003 and 2007);
- the impact of mandatory training on clinical care;
- the future role of specialist & community nurses - and ANPs - particularly the important roles they will play in the plan to delivery care 'closer to home'.

It was agreed that the following issues were important ones that the Forum should address first:
1) Skill mix issues - including new & extended roles; training - particularly for non-RSCNs and   benchmarking of services.
2) To examine the environment where children are seen and treated ie - in A & E or on a PAU - and consider how that activity is
counted and paid for. Need to look at tariffs / PbR and present information to Commissioners.
3) Development of Guidelines / Competencies / Care Pathways.

Small sub-groups are being set up to progress these issues.                                                                                                                    

Inaugural Nurses Forum meeting