1. The General Practice Nursing
Workforce Development Plan

2. Its losing your practice nurses that will break you.
Introduction
Its losing your practice nurses that will break you.
I’m Pete Lane
This is Louise Berwick

3. GP 15% GPN/ANP 26% HCA 20% Practice Managers 29% Retirement Risk
Aged over 55
GP %
GPN/ANP %
HCA %
Practice Managers 29%
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4. Age Profile

5. What are GP’s doing? P O A
R E C Y C L I N G H I N G

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7. Evolving Workforce Configurations

9. Report Published on 8 March 2017, the report covers four key areas
Entry into general practice – raising the profile as a first career choice and increasing the availability of training placements for students
Establishing the role of the GP Nurse – ensuring appropriate training and support is available for new GPNs
Enhancing the role with professional development and career progression
Expanding the healthcare support workforce with standardised training and career paths.

10. Recommendations
The report contains 17 recommendations covering these areas:-
Improve training capacity for the general practice nurse workforce by:
Providing access to accredited training to equip them for each level of their role
Ensuring that there is access to quality assured education and training to support career development and inform revalidation if appropriate
Raise the profile of general practice nursing, to increase the uptake of the role as a first-destination career by:
Increasing the number of pre-registration nurse clinical placements in general practice
Designing a standardised and accredited competency based preceptorship programme to equip all nurses for their general practice nursing role.  
Retain the knowledge and expertise of existing general practice nurses by:
Developing GPN educator roles to cover all CCG areas, including the promotion of mentor training for all GPNs
Improve access to return schemes by offering a general practice specific ‘return to practice’ programme
Development of a sustainable and easily accessible ‘how-to’ toolkit and web based resource to support the implementation of general practice nursing workforce initiatives

11. Big issues We want and advertise for experienced nurses
We usually want part timers
We aren’t always that good at supporting new nurses to General Practice
Are we planning in time for the retirement risk?
There wont be enough of the new roles to replace GPNs quick enough

12. We need to be better at…....
Induction of new clinical staff to GP land
Planning their foundation training-sourcing education
Supporting our practice nurses as educators and mentors
Making GP land an attractive career for new entrants
Retaining staff

13. How can the Advanced Training Practice Scheme help?
Student nurse placements
GPN Ready Scheme
Return to Practice
HCA Apprentice Scheme
Practice support
Mentor support

14. New World. Describing the “Educational Practice”
ATPS Video
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15. UPSKILLING

16. SUPERVISION