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This half day workshop been developed to support receptionists and other health care professionals in General Practice to develop their skills and confidence to provide excellence in customer service and to help manage challenging conflict situations. The workshop will help you create a vision of exceptional customer service and will also help you to manage conflicts that arise in General Practice. We will consider how and why conflict may arise between staff members and the patients or their carers around access to services, treatments and other aspects of practices life and will consider and reflect on ways to manage this.

This is designed for those already working in an established management role. It is set at a standard suitable for those who are managing teams or projects and are responsible for achieving operational or departmental goals as part of the organisations strategy.

You may be accountable to a senior manager or the business owners. Other responsibilities may include managing change, financial and resource management, talent management, coaching and mentoring.

This is ideal for those aspiring to move into a management role or you are already in a junior supervisory/management position and want to develop your skills further.

The Diploma will develop the skills necessary to lead and manage teams. You’ll need to have some supervisory/management responsibilities, like supporting, managing and developing team members, involved in projects, planning ahead and monitoring workloads and resources.

You may also be involved in delivering operational plans, resolving problems, or building work relationships with colleagues at the same level or above.

The Developing the Role of a Prescription Clerk module is aimed at practice managers, receptionists and administrative staff who wish to broaden their knowledge of Medicines Management within General Practice. Receptionists are often the first point of contact in general practice for patients when it comes to ordering their repeat medications or when they have a query concerning them. They can play a ‘hidden’ crucial role in the highly complex process of repeat prescribing and the collaboration between clinical and administrative staff is crucial to maintaining the quality and safety of prescribing.

Are you supporting a range of clerical tasks within your role and looking to enhance your skill base? This apprenticeship is designed to enhance and develop a highly transferable skill set built around core elements of business admin: communication, organisation, IT skills, decision-making and more. Business administrators develop key skills and behaviours to support their own progression towards management responsibilities.

Root Cause Analysis or RCA is widely endorsed by healthcare systems worldwide for the investigation of serious incidents. RCA is understood as a method of structured risk identification and management in the aftermath of adverse events. The RCA is not a single technique but, describes a range of approaches and tools drawn from many fields – and these will be fully explored throughout the web workshop. These will enable you to establish how and why an incident occurred to identify how it, and similar problems, might be prevented from happening again.

This half day course will help GPs and Clinicians to analyse and prioritise their own workload, as well as recognise and manage the causes of ‘bad’ time management. The workshop will explore assertiveness is the capacity to control your working environment to manage time and work performance under pressure. This workshop will enable you to understand your own behavioural styles and those of others and develop achievable techniques for communicating and behaving more assertively.

This module focuses on ‘coaching for performance’ – and will develop the skills needed to understand and develop the capability and capacity in the practice. Through the introduction of a variety of coaching tools and techniques, this module will develop the core skills of questioning and listening and using powerful questions to support people in achieving their best outcomes. Delegates will gain an understanding of the skills, principles and practice of effective management coaching and mentoring.

Receptionists are the first point of contact in general practice for patients when it comes to their contact with the surgery – this can be for appointment making, treatment queries, ordering their repeat medications or when they have other prescription related query. Receptionists and administrative staff play a hidden, but crucial role in managing patient expectations.

Prescribing is the most common intervention involving patients in the NHS and as such is the second highest area of spending in the NHS, after staffing. Statistics from NHS Digital show that in 2016 there were 1,104.1 million items dispensed, an increase of 1.9% or 20.5 million additional items compared with 2015. This was at a cost to the NHS of £9,204.9 million. With increasing numbers of prescriptions, it is imperative that prescribing is cost effective to provide the best value for money for NHS resources whilst also meeting the clinical needs of the patient.