MINUTES - PAST MEETINGS

19 August 2004, The State Hospital, Carstairs

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Present: Susan Begg, Moira Brown, Chris Rodden, Penny Bond, Tracey Smith, Lynsey Newman, Kate Cocozza, James Cassidy (treasurer), Jane Christie, Kate Lambie, David Langton, Ann Rae, Caroline Scott (jt secretaries), Joyce Surfleet,
Mark Lees

Apologies received from: Liz Adamson, Susan Alexander, Jacequeline Bryceland, Geraldine Butcher, Christine Hoy, Diane Allcock, Dorothy Armstrong, Fiona Cook (Chair), Fiona Minto, Gail McSheehy, Paula Ingram, Janice Turnbull, Joyce Jeffrey, Karen Bell, Kate Danskin, Kevin Hurst, Irene Lavery (Vice-chair), Margaret Dunn, Maria Dale, Ansley McGibbon, Kathy Munro, Julie Peacock, Linda Sinclair, Kim Smith, Karen Spiers, Stan Phillips, Vivienne Simpson, Heather Cavannagh, Elaine Trainor

Welcome

James chaired the meeting in Fiona's absence. He welcomed everyone to meeting and thanked David Langton for organising and The State Hospital for hosting the meeting and a subsequent tour of the hospital.

Minutes from previous meeting

Accepted.

Chairperson

An abstract has been submitted by Fiona and Caroline for the DPN conference in November entitled Supporting Practice Development in Scotland'. The existing PPDNF poster presentation has also been submitted. Chris Rodden will also be attending.
The action learning sets are continuing. Both groups feel they are progressing. An evaluation will be carried out after the last set in December. The next AL set is at St Johns on 13th September, 10-3pm.

A discussion took place regarding enquiries from Practice Education Facilitators who want to join the Forum. Members agreed this is an open forum, therefore they will be welcomed. It was not thought appropriate to ask a representation from their networking group to join the Forum officially, however it was considered appropriate to enquire re feasibility of giving PPDNF presentation at either PEF induction or national conference. David Langton to find out key contact.

Members agree that the 'member's feedback/sharing PD issues' part of the meeting is valuable, but often time runs out at the meeting.

In order to maximise this, members should be allocated 2 mins, unless there is an issue that the Forum wants to debate. This is to be moved to before lunch in future meetings. Kate Cocozza suggested this part of the meeting could be used to respond to national documents.

Treasurer's Report

James reported that the current balance in the bank account is £2642.06. Total expenditure for the period May-Aug 04 was £1086.26. This included payment for the use of Dolby for AGM and three AL sets and travelling expenses for DPN committee meeting for Caroline and conference for Fiona.

Secretary's Report

Membership 112
11 New members (May - Aug)
1 left Forum

There is a new database which gives ongoing statistics about when people join the Forum and how they heard about it.

Website
Statistics asked at last meeting
674 visitors to the site and 1742 visits. No. inds with PPDNF in 'favourits' jumped from 50% to 72%.
Top countries visitng the site:

USA, UK, European Union (general), Germany, Taiwan, Australia.
Average time spent on the site is 378 secs. 17.4% spend more than 5 mins.
Most populare time: 9am (NB time differences)

Notice Board
Items pasted on the noticeboard will now go out to all Forum members via the mailing list.

Working Groups

Conference Group
The conference group asked the Forum if it would be possible to postpone the conference until early 2005. Members agreed that April would be the best time. Caroline to inform Susan Alexander.

Presentation for HEI/Information Document:
No update from this group.
Group Members: Irene Lavery, Charlie Sinclair, Fiona Cook. Aileen

Facilitation Toolkit
Caroline informed members that there has been one meeting of this group. The intention is to develop and on-line resource available on the website that is 'live'. Issues surrounding copyright currently being sought.
Group members: Caroline Scott, Kevin Hurst, Joyce Surfleet, Kate Cocozza

PD Strategy
Group developing guidance for practice developers to develop a strategy.
Group members: Ann Rae, Susan Begg, Penny Bond, Irene Lavery, Karen Bell, Judy Taylor

Evidencing Practice
Jane talked to the final draft of the person-centred standards that can be used in healthcare settings. Discussion took place how to document successful implementation of standards.

Guest Speaker

June Wylie, Professional Practice Development Officer for AHPs, NHS QIS updated the Forum on where AHPs are, in relation to PD. June's presentation can be downloaded in Powerpoint format.

Following the presentation, members discussed opening the Forum to AHPs. General feeling was that the time may be right to open the Forum. Caroline is to ask Jen to set up a 'discussion group' on the website to debate this issue. A ballot will take place at the next AGM.

PPDNF MEMBERS' FEEDBACK

(an example of…)

James Cassidy
Setting up a multi-agency forum for education/trainging/development.

Kate Lambie
Carried out an audit of non-registered nurses' practice and the views of G/H grades on their development.

Chris Rodden
Holding a symposium on 'consent'
Looking at clinical management plans and CPD for Nurse Prescribers

Penny Bond
Shortly reviewing and updating the first 5 Best Practice Statements

Tracey Smith
Focus of Care Project: multi-disciplinary approach with action plan (aim is to contribute to individualised/holistic care)

Jane Christie
Developing an on-line Risk Management module (masters level). Already developed Clinical Governance.

Jane Camp
Developing clinical management plans in CDSS and Spice that interface with GPASS. Will pilot soon.

Date of next PPDNF meetings

25th November 11am-3pm, Board Room, 2nd Floor Trust Offices
Perth Royal Infirmary. Please let Kevin Hurst know if you will be attending – for catering. kevin.hurst@tuht.scot.nhs.uk

10th February 2005 11am-3pm
? NHS 24

Then 12th May 2005 (AGM).
Venue to be confirmed.

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