West of Scotland Cancer Network

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West of Scotland Cancer Network

• Multi-professional Strategy for Continuing
  Professional Development

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Development of the Strategy
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CPD Strategy

• Collaboration between WoS Cancer Network
• NHS Education for Scotland

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Model

• Based on established template developed by
• NES for CPD
• Quality Assuring Continuing Professional
• Development - QACPD Initiative (NBS 2000)

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Aim of Strategy

• To offer organisations throughout WOSCAN a
  framework on which they can build action plans
  for facilitating, delivering and evaluating
  cancer related CPD
• Aimed at clinical staff in all areas of cancer
  care generic and specialist

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Recognises that

• Much CPD activity will be multi-professional
• Occasions when uni-disciplinary activity will be
  more appropriate

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Scope of Strategy

• Framework can be used for action plans detailing
  CPD activity at a variety of strategic,
  organisation and individual levels within
  statutory, individual and voluntary services

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Examples

• Cancer MCNs
• General hospitals
• Primary health care teams and CHPs
• Specialist cancer centres
• Palliative care settings
• Nursing residential care homes
• Local authorities
• Uni and multi-professional agencies /groups
• Individual PDPs

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Content of Strategy (1)

• The Policy Context
• Education Training Needs
• Statutory Mandatory Training
• Generic Topics
• Cancer-Focussed and Discipline-Specific Topics

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Content of Strategy (2)

• The Change Process Service Modernisation
• Supporting Developing Staff Services.
• Monitoring Quality and Outcomes
• Developing Partnerships

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Summary of Development Process

• Initial exploratory meeting
• Steering group
• Wider reference group
• Consultation
• Workshops
• Final draft
• RCAG Approval
• Publication

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Initial Exploratory Meeting

• Approx 50 multi-professional clinicians and
  managers across WoS met to discuss potential to
  use NES model for WOSCAN
• Resulted in strong support to progress.
• Multi-professional steering group established
  from interested parties, to lead work
• Carried out under the auspices of the RCAG

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Steering Group

• Wide range of disciplines involved
• Involvement from all 5 WoS health board areas
• Primary, secondary and tertiary care settings
• Management and academic input

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Steering Group Members (1)

• Esther Black
• Clinical Psychologist
• Ailsa Currie
• Physiotherapist
• David Dunlop
• Consultant Medical Oncologist
• Leigh Findlay
• Speech and Language Therapist
• Fiona Fraser
• Occupational Therapist

• Cathy Hutchison
• Consultant Nurse
• Richard Jones
• Consultant Clinical Oncologist
• Kate Lennon
• Consultant Nurse
• Joanne Low
• Lead Cancer Pharmacist
• Roseanne McDonald
• Lead cancer Nurse

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Steering Group Members (2)

• Franky Milne
• Superintendent Radiographer
• Marie Pirret
• Macmillan GP
• Rosemary Richardson
• Dep services manager
• Nutrition Dietetics

• Ann Marie Rice
• Macmillan lecturer
• Lorna Roe
• Lead Cancer Nurse
• Kate Wilson
• Macmillan coordinator
• Primary care

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Stage 1 of Strategy Development

• 1st draft developed by steering group at workshop
  facilitated by NES NES-appointed external
  consultant
• Subsequently revised by group through various
  iterations
• Then submitted to wide consultation

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Consultation

• Direct contact with 400 people in organisations
  across WoS. Included
• Chief execs, Medical directors, Nurse
  directors, AHP leads, Learning and development
  managers, Primary care leads, MCN lead
  clinicians, MCN managers, clinical personnel at
  the coal face
• Consultation workshops

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Consultation Workshops

• Five regional workshops
• Facilitated round table discussions
• Aim- to refine content of the draft strategy
• Involved West of Scotland Cancer Network and NHS
  Education for Scotland

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Stage 2 of Strategy Development

• Redrafted and resubmitted to Steering group
  following consultation and workshops.
• Final changes agreed by steering group
• Final draft strategy submitted and approved by
  RCAG

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Next steps and challenges

• IMPLEMENTATION !!