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Professional development:<br />

Provide monthly professional development evening meetings for GPs, nurses, practice<br />

managers, pharmacist and other members of the multi disciplinary team (MDT), with<br />

videoconference links.<br />

Provide annual PHO workshops: PHO day, practice management workshops, practice<br />

nurse workshops.<br />

Link in educational activities with those of the Rural Learning Centre.<br />

Provide training in the use of standing orders, (see Acute <strong>Care</strong> plan).<br />

Develop guidelines for direct CT access and provide educational sessions to implement<br />

them, (see Direct Access to Diagnostics plan.)<br />

Adapt Canterbury HealthPathways for Coast use and provide educational sessions to<br />

implement them, (see HealthPathways plan).<br />

Provide education about health literacy, (see Long Term Conditions plan).<br />

Link with DHB Māori health team to provide cultural competence and health inequalities<br />

training annually.<br />

Actively engage Manawhenua to give guidance and support regarding Tikanga Māori<br />

protocol appropriate to Te Tai O Poutini rohe.<br />

Ongoing implementation and utilization of CTA funded cultural supervision for relevant<br />

staff.<br />

Fund conference/course leave for all members of team.<br />

Continued and increasing utilization of PG Nursing CTA funded education.<br />

Refinement of cohort learning between medical and nursing teams.<br />

<strong>Care</strong>er planning and educational support for nurses, including pathways leading to nurse<br />

practitioner.<br />

Quality initiatives:<br />

Develop quality improvement and clinical governance systems in every IFHC.<br />

Provide Cornerstone support and co-ordination support practice quality improvement<br />

teams .<br />

Support practice improvement activities for GPs (MOPS) and nurses (accreditation and<br />

expert endorsement).<br />

Produce practice level PHO Performance Programme reports with peer comparisons.<br />

Provide practice visits by GP and nurse facilitators to review PHO Performance<br />

Programme reports and assist in the development of quality improvement plans.<br />

Provide PHO Performance Programme incentive payments according to the percentage of<br />

targets met by each practice.<br />

Support pharmacists to provide feedback to GPs on cost effective prescribing.<br />

Develop active feedback loops so that any concerns about the quality of patient care will<br />

be fed back to the health providers concerned in a constructive, educational<br />

environment.<br />

Business case appendices V12 AC 25Feb2010 Page 115

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