High quality healthcare and support services are dependent upon a highly skilled and valued Medical workforce, appropriately rewarded for their work and the vital impact that it has on people’s lives. If we are to ensure true integrated care between health and social care, then we need to invest in recruiting, retaining, developing and empowering our medical workforce; across community, mental health, primary care and secondary acute hospital provisions. The diverse and rich variety of medical professions is essential in the delivery of complex clinical diagnosis. It can take 7 years+ to become fully qualified; at numerous stages of expertise; from junior doctor through to consultant levels, as well as in specialist fellowship roles. Looking after the wellbeing, reward, development & talents of our medical workforce is essential. We need to invest in our medical workforce pipeline and establish innovative ways in new roles and new ways of working.
Hence, we are proud to establish our ICS Medical Faculty. This brings together medical education & organisational leads to work together to determine the joint education, learning & development priorities, and we will deliver these. We are just at the beginning of our journey, but we have already established increased investment in supporting with the new medical distribution & expansion plans, targeted recruitment for roles in fragile services, new physician associates expansion, international recruitment, talent & leadership development access, as well as ensuring medical professionals are at the heart of new health and care integrated service redesign.
As our Faculty develops, we will promote more updates and access to a full repository of information, resources, tools and development offers via the ICS Academy
More information coming soon.
Applications are open for the Certificate training course 'Meeting the Medical Needs of Adults with a Learning Disability'. The course lasts for 15 mths and results in a University Certificate granted by Edge Hill University. The course is run by the Royal College of Physicians and Edge Hill. The aim of the course is to improve the medical care of the physical health of people with a learning disability. The course is aimed at hospital consultant physicians, senior medical trainees, GPs, particularly those with a learning disability leadership role, senior trainees in learning disability psychiatry and allied health professionals who have a role in the clinical care of medical problems for this patient group.
Funding is available for places starting in February 2024 for those working in England.
For further information and to apply - https://www.rcp.ac.uk/education-practice/courses/training-programme-meet-medical-needs-adults-learning-disability
It would be great if Partnership Board Members could raise the profile of the course within services where they work and with colleagues. The sub-optimal physical healthcare management was a key theme in the Safe and Well-being Reviews and this looks an excellent opportunity to build skill in physical healthcare for people with a learning disability.
More information coming soon.
