Faculty & Devolved Council Leadership Activities

 

Examples of recent Leadership Activities across regional and national levels.

 

North West England Faculty

Ran a course entitled Leadership Skills for GPs.

 

  • Identify the qualities of a good leader
  • Describe different leadership styles and identify their own style
  • Understand sources of power in a practice
  • Know the effect of different leadership styles on the team
  • Understand the concept of psychological contracts
  • Describe the key principles of team leadership
  • Turning a group into a team
  • Describe the skills required for effective chairing of meetings
  • Leading like Shackleton

 

North West England Faculty are currently collaborating with the North West and Mersey Deaneries to organise a Medical Leadership Conference in the North West.

 

RCGP Scotland Devolved Council

Runs a variety of initiatives.

 

  • Media training for GPs and lay representatives required to provide comment on behalf of RCGP Scotland
  • Quality & Outcomes Framework Reviewer training
  • Management of Drug & Alcohol Misuse training for GPs, Pharmacists and Nurses
  • Living Better Project – enabling and empowering GPs and their Practice Teams to manage patients who present with a long term condition and mental health issues
  • Essence of General Practice initiative – development of learning tools to facilitate training of young GPs and to raise awareness of the unique role of GPs to a wider audience (eg. established GPs, Practice Teams, etc)

 

nPEP: a web-based broad brush self-assessment exercise founded on the nMRCGP methodology. A useful tool for all GPs and, in particular, AiTs at their stage of career development.

 

modularPEP: an in depth web-based self assessment tool which will allow GPs throughout the UK to assess their learning needs across all aspects of the GP Curriculum. Enabling GPs Personal Development Plans, presented at Appraisal, to be informed in a systematic, evidence-based manner.

 

Sexual Health Training: a one-day course providing a basic grounding in sexual health for GPs, practice nurses and generalist clinicians already working in general practice.

 

 

RCGP Northern Ireland Devolved Council

 

The Future of General Practice: A 10 Year Strategy

This strategy was developed to demonstrate how GPs could provide leadership and accountability to areas of change within the health service. The essence of the strategy is to provide GPs with the vision and confidence to become more pro-active in providing for the future direction of general practice.

 

Political and key stakeholder engagement

GP members engage with politicians and decision makers to ensure that the viewpoint of RCGP Northern Ireland is always at the forefront of all proposed health policy changes. In addition a number of GPs have been media trained to allow RCGP Northern Ireland the opportunity to offer a voice on health issues through the role of the media.

 

Northern Ireland Manifesto

The RCGP Northern Ireland Manifesto has been published to highlight key priorities and policy areas which the members would like to influence over the next number of years.

 

Consultations

With the development of a new Consultations Policy for 2011 the aim is to provide local members with the opportunities to shape and influence the development of health policy effecting general practice.

 

CPD Events

RCGP Northern Ireland offers a wide range of events for members who wish to develop their knowledge further in certain subjects. These events have ranged from Mental Health to Thrombosis and Dementia. RCGP Northern Ireland continues to support and provide events for Associates in Training (AiT) to prepare for life as a qualified GP.