MINUTES - PAST MEETINGS

10 February 2005, NHS24 Clydebank

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Present:

Susan Begg, Chris Rodden, James Cassidy (treasurer), Jane Christie, Kate Lambie, Caroline Scott (jt secretary), Joyce Surfleet, Fiona Cook (chairperson),
Mark Lees, Irene Lavery, Karen Spiers, Kevin Hurst, May Fallen, Marie Carey, Diane Allcock, Gail McSheehy, Jo McCallum, Moira Brown, Karen Percival, John Norden.

Apologies received from:

Kim Smith, Edna-mae Watson, Madge Balfour, Toby Mohammed, David Langton, Ann Rae, Helen Pickering, Paula Ingram, Penny Bond

Welcome

Fiona welcomed everyone to meeting and thanked Susan Begg for organising and hosting the meeting at NHS24 and for conducting a guided tour of the organisation.

Minutes from previous meeting

Accepted.

Working Groups

Conference Group

Fliers are being distributed to DNSs, NES, NHSQIS and locally. Sponsorship has been gained from Alaris at present and the group are trying to invite Whurr Publishers also to support the event. There is a call for abstracts by 2nd March. There have been no submissions as yet and members have been asked to encourage colleagues to submit and to consider submitting themselves. Five poster boards will be supplied by the venue, therefore it is likely that any members with a poster should bring a stand with them. Members also asked to encourage delegates from their workplaces. Fiona will put conference details on DPN website. Irene has disseminated via RCN education forum.

Evidencing Practice

Jane fed back on framework. Second draft to go out with agenda for discussion at February meeting. Will also be discussed at the conference.

Presentation for HEI/Information Document

The group will arrange one final meeting before the work is completed.
Group Members: Irene Lavery, Charlie Sinclair, Fiona Cook. Aileen

Facilitation toolkit

This group has been unable to meet since the last Forum meeting. Caroline, Joyce and Kevin asked Forum members to write down any facilitation tools/techniques at the meeting – grateful thanks to those who did this. Caroline will ask members to submit one facilitation tool via e-mail and the group will start formulating toolkit. Group members: Caroline Scott, Kevin Hurst, Joyce Surfleet, Kate Cocozza

PD Strategy

This group is looking to compile a template for writing a strategy. Fiona has contacted Jane Stokes, RCN Fellow who has written and implemented a PD strategy. She is willing to come to speak to the group. Fiona will open this to Forum members. Date is likely to be May but will not be part of a Forum meeting.
Group members: Ann Rae, Susan Begg, Penny Bond, Irene Lavery, Karen Bell, Judy Taylor

Evidencing Practice

This group is developing a framework to describe patient-centred practice. The aim is to have an audit tool. 2nd draft is to go out to members with the minutes of this meeting for comment by 7th march 2005. The sorts of comments the group are seeking are:

What is patient-centre practice is
What is evidence?
Why is the framework needed?
How to collect evidence/validate it and learn from it.
Is it is clear enough, too much?

Chairperson's Report

At the AGM all the office bearers are able to stand down but the Forum members agreed that it would not be wise for all office bearers to change at the one time. The chairperson and secretaries therefore are willing to stand down and given someone else the opportunity to hold office. Members were asked to consider their willingness to stand for office.

Fiona and Ann are meeting with Penny Bond from NHS QIS next week. Chris asked if we as a Forum could influence topics for BPS development.

Ann was asked by Ruth Lockwood for representation at NES. Caroline to ask Paul Fulbrook if she can email members his presentation at DPN conference. Fiona asked if we would consider running a summer school for PD as the RCN have indicated they will not be running one this year. Fiona to check this out with RCN. The committee are to draft comments for the NMC consultation document: Level beyond initial registration and seek agreement from Forum members prior to it being submitted.

Treasurer's Report

James reported that the current balance in the bank account is £2315.73. The members discussed how the money should be spent.

Secretary

Here are the stats for the PPDNF site for December 04 and January 05:
Dec 04:
230 visitors
458 visits

Jan 05:
234 visitors
354 visits

Visitor numbers are very slightly down from September/October, but that's probably to be expected over the holiday period.

In January, popular pages were the projects (most popular - with the benchmarking project page being most visited of these apart from the main page), meetings, and noticeboard pages. The links page was also popular in January.

Access to site:
- 79.2% of pages accessed directly (typing in or bookmarks)
- 16% through search engines - search terms included "infection control newsletter"; "risk management in nursing"; "ppdnf"; "characteristics of practice"; "development nursing".
- 3.4% of pages were accessed through links from other sites (down from 6.7% in November), including (as usual) Bell College, Developing Practice Network; RCN and NHSQIS.

In January the average visit length was 85 seconds (a minute and a half). 6% of visitors spent more than 5 minutes on the site.

The stats now show country of origin, and the top 10 countries visiting the site in January were (bearing in mind that some UK visitors will be interpreted as being US-based by the software):

USA
UK
EU
South Korea
Canada
China
Australia
Ireland
Philippines
Norway

Action Learning sets: the pilot has successfully been evaluated. The sets will continue and there is now an opportunity for others to join. Any names should be given to Caroline or Ann. Commitment must be given to all dates.

Guest Speaker

John presented a 'toolkit for practice developers' which he uses in a Level 3 practice Development module at Bell College. The module is based around McCormack and Garbetts definition of PD and the assessment consists of a proposal to carry out a practice development activity. The toolkit consists of web-based resources from references from the literature, facilitation tools, concept, analytical and concept tools. John is keen to share his work. The committee will meet with John to discuss putting the toolkit on the website.

PPDNF MEMBERS' FEEDBACK

(an example of…)
Irene Lavery: how have members approached standardising clinical skills (NES). Chris will contact Janet Thomson at NES to clarify guidance.

Has anyone systems/frameworks to support nurses with literacy problems. John will circulate guidance from Plymouth. Caroline to send out with minutes.

Karen Speirs: has been doing a lot of work round the mental health act. NES have produced an e-learning pack on this.

Marie Carey: wants an e-learning course for safe administration of medicines.

Diane Allcock has been charge with writing a paper to propose the setting up of a PDU. She URGENTLY wants any info that might help her. John suggested the Prince 2 project framework for government frameworks, available on line.

Moira Brown: template for addressing needs of patients/clients with respiratory disorders who are house-bound. This will be used by community nurses.

Karen Percival is auditing PDS.

James Cassidy is looking to develop user/carer information on Mental Health Act.

Caroline would like any information regarding degree level education/development for Practice Nurses.

Next Meeting:

12th May 2005 (AGM).

Easterhouse Health Centre Glasgow

If you are attending please let Diane Alcock know by 7th May for catering purposes: diane.allcock@glacomen.scot.nhs.uk

Apologies to Ann Rae ann.rae@wlt.scot.nhs.uk

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