Health for Healthcare
Professionals (HHP)
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Introduction
The aim of the HHP pilot is
twofold. Firstly, it is to deliver a training programme to improve
the knowledge, skills and expertise of all GPs who have a role in
caring for health professionals with health problems (Certificate
in Practitioner Health (CPH) Part 1). Secondly, it is to create a
cadre of general practitioners with specialist interest in
practitioner health (CPH Part 2).
Certificate in
Practitioner Health Part 1
CPH Part 1 utilises a mixture
of learning methods and styles, including both e-learning and face
to face days (please
click here to access the e-learning courses).
The course explores the issues
around doctors' health, and what we can do in general practice to
improve the care of our own practitioner patients. Health
professionals, like their patients, become ill. Poor practitioner
health adversely affects the care of patients, healthcare costs,
the lives of the physician's colleagues, family and friends, and
the physician themselves.
RCGP will be arranging further face to face days commencing
Spring/Summer. These face to face days will be available to
all GP members, AiTs, First 5 and non-member GPs.
Please check back
regularly for updates on when and where these will be held in
2012
Health professionals often find innovative ways of obtaining health
care and are at risk of inappropriately self-diagnosing,
self-prescribing and even self-referring.
The focus of the face to face
training is:
- To consolidate and further
develop the learning that has taken place in the HHP e-learning
courses 1 & 2 in the areas of mental health, alcohol and
substance misuse and regulation.
- To provide an opportunity for
reflection and peer discussion on the participants experience of
dealing with practitioner health.
- To identify ways in which
service provision could be improved.
Those who attend the training
day can expect to gain experience and knowledge in aspects of the
healthcare of health professionals through the following:
In order to complete your
Certificate in Practitioner Health Part 1 you will
need to complete both e-learning courses and attend a face to
face day.
Certificate in Practitioner Health
Part 2
This in-depth training
programme, uses a range of learning methods, to facilitate the
development of the knowledge and skills required to be a GP with a
Special Interest in Practitioner Health. It follows a
curriculum based on the document ‘Guidance and Competencies for the
Provision of Services using Practitioners with Special Interest:
Health for Health Professionals’.
This programme includes
face-to-face teaching; field work; work placed learning;
multidisciplinary learning sets and reflective learning logs.
The current Part 2 pilot programme will
be finishing in June 2012. Once evaluated we hope to run
the next Part 2 course in 2012/13 (tbc)
You can now express an interest in participating
in the next Part 2 course by emailing hhp@rcgp.org.uk with the following
details:
- Full name
- A brief outline of your work experience (one
sentence)
- Region (county of work)
This will enable us to keep you abreast of any
changes and keep you updated on the finer details of when, where
and how the course will run.
e-Learning Courses
Both HHP courses are available through
the RCGP Online Learning
Environment.
This course, comprising of
seven sessions, explores the issue of doctors’ health, and what we
can do in general practice to improve the care of our
practitioner patients.
This course, comprising of five
sessions, builds on the Health for Healthcare Professionals - Part
1. It explores further the issue of doctors’ health, and what
we can do in general practice to improve the care of our
practitioner patients.
Resource Area
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists, in collaboration with The Royal College of General
Practitioners, and the Faculty of Occupational Medicine held a
national conference on 19 January 2011 in London, which explored
the training and service requirements when working with health
practitioner patients.
Rhona Knight presented the RCGP
pilot programme at this event, to view her presentation please
click here
To view all the presentations
from that event, please
click here
For more information on the
practitioner health topic please visit http://www.h4hp.co.uk/
Two short presentations on the
background, part 1, part 2, e-learning and next steps are
available to download here. To download a short
presentation on the HHP courses please click on the links
below:
1: Background, aims and objectives, part
1 and e-learning
2: Part 2, structure, master classes and next
steps
Click here for the BMJ CPD learning module on alcohol and substance
misuse among doctors with Dr Clare Gerada