Criminal
Records Bureau Enhanced Disclosure
Identification
for Sessional GPs
The meeting
was kindly sponsored by:
Dee Warren
(Maddison Healthcare)
Stephne Maykels-Strange (Beecham Research)
Dr Adrian
Harris (Consultant A&E at Royal
Dr Harris gave
an enlightening and very informative presentation on a wide selection of minor
injury case studies entitled “What GPs do Badly”.
It was
evident that many of the sessional GPs present at the
meeting were unaware of the CPD forum and only about 1/3 of the group had
received letters and passwords regarding the forum.
There is a
long term locum at Heavitree (8 sessions per week from March-June/July 2005)
covering sabbatical leave for Dr McLeod. If interested contact him on 01647 252881.
The next
meeting will be on 19th October and will cover GU Medicine (am) and On-Line
Learning (pm). All are welcome and its Free. Those
eligible for HPE will get funding to attend. Contact John Deacon on 01752
311972.
Dr Diane
Baker has established a database (from Sept 2004) of attendees at each ESGPG meeting
which will be available to anyone wishing to include it in their appraisal
portfolios.
A reminder
was given to the Group that all will need to have been registered by February
2005 to ensure eligibility to continue work. It is understood the appropriate
forms for the
The
question was put to the Group as to whether some specific form of identification
should be carried by them when working in areas they are not recognised and
during out of hours. It was generally felt that most SGPs
carried some form of identity (certificates etc) and as such additional ID was
not necessary.
It was
noted that significant improvements have been made to the model contract for
Salaried GPs as a consequence of BMA and NASGP involvement. It was advised that
anyone considering taking up a salaried position should consider viewing the
new model contract on the NASGP web-site.
Please note
that the meetings are now scheduled to start at
2nd November – “Drugs &
Alcohol” Dr Bill Nolan (Clock Tower)
7th December – “Wound & Burns
Management” Mr Vikrim Deveraj
(Plastic
Surgeon
RD&E)
4th January – “Resuscitation
Issues” Barry Thomas (
Dr
Vik Mohan ............................................................................................. Email:
mohanvik@hotmail.com
Dr
Diane Baker.......................................................................................... Email:
diane@belbury.freeserve.co.uk
Dr Peter Kennerley (LMC
Representative) .......................................... Email: peter.kennerley@btopenworld.com
Dr Liam Kinsella ........................................................................................ Email:
lkinsella@doctors.org.uk