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Advanced Practice

Advanced Practice for Primary and Urgent CareCare

Our Advanced practice courses provide an inter-professional programme that allows you to focus on specific courses/workshops that are the core principles of advanced practice and include professionalism, leadership, inter-professional communication, and service development.

These courses provide the opportunity to evidence and develop your core capabilities against the four pillars of advanced clinical practice (clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research). The Advanced Practice Courses have been prepared by senior clinicians, expert practitioners including nurse practitioners, general practitioners, and academic lecturers, to equip you with the knowledge , skills and values to meet the Multi-Professional Framework of Advanced Clinical Practice introduced by Health Education England in 2017.

The course programmes have been designed to meet the four pillars of advanced practice:

  • clinical practice
  • leadership and management
  • education
  • research.

Course Aims

This course aims to prepare practitioners to develop their knowledge and skills to work at an advanced level in clinical practice.

Course Objectives

This course will enable you to work in a collaborative way to meet strategic health and social care targets. These targets will be met through:

  • applying the principles of the 4 pillars of advanced practice in your clinical environment.
  • demonstrate innovation, enhanced decision-making, problem-solving and change management within advanced practice
  • work with inter-professional teams using a collaborative approach in a multi cultural content that is responsive to health needs and local health strategy.
  • Engage with research and evidence, keeping up to date and recognising the importance of constantly updating knowledge and skills.
  • Seeking mentorship and guidance to improve expertise and competence to work autonomously.

These course offers a wide range of teaching and learning strategies including interactive presentations, a handbook with current evidence based guidelines, MCQs, group work and signposting to reading material and resources to support your learning. There is also a skills workbook to guide you in clinical practice.

Assessment Types

  1. MCQs
  2. Case Studies
  3. Crosswords
  4. Skills Portfolio with competencies to complete in clinical Practice

Who Should Attend?

  • Healthcare professionals wishing to work in advanced roles
  • Clinicians wanting to advance their knowledge and skills to work independently in primary care settings such as general practice, urgent care, walk in centre, the community and pharmacies.
  • Delegates will come from a range of regulated healthcare professions such as nursing, pharmacy, therapeutic and diagnostic radiography, physiotherapy, paramedics, speech and language therapy, dietetics, and occupational health, who are working in a variety of specialties, settings, or sectors.

These courses can be accessed as eLearning, webinars or face to face classroom sessions.

Courses Available

  1. Physical Examinations Skills
  2. Minor Illness Modules
  3. Minor Injuries Bundle
  4. Blood Results Interpretation
  5. Paediatric Minor Illness
  6. Paediatric Minor Injuries
  7. Telephone Triage
  8. Moral Leadership, Professionalism and Resilience in General Practice
  9. Updates
  10. Mental Health Awareness

Choosing a pathway

Contact [email protected] to discuss modules applicable to your specific clinical training needs. 

Advance Practice (Classroom)
3 days
£495 £450
Develop the practical skills and clinical confidence to assess, diagnose and manage common minor injuries in primary care, urgent care, minor injur...
3 days
£495 £450
2-day practical physical examination course for community and Virtual Ward nurses. Develop assessment skills, recognise deterioration and escalate ...
Beginner
5 Lectures
Minor illnesses account for a significant proportion of patient presentations in primary and urgent care. Clinicians with robust assessment, diagno...
Beginner
13 Lectures
Advanced Practice (Webinar)
£65
Half-day Minor Injuries Update for healthcare professionals covering burns, silver trauma, soft tissue and lower limb injuries. Enhance assessment ...
1 Lectures
Allied Health Professionals
7hrs
£125
This intensive one-day Telephone Triage course equips healthcare professionals with the consultation, clinical reasoning, and risk management skill...
7 Lectures
7hrs
Advanced Practice (Webinar)
6hrs
£50
This one-day Paediatric Update provides healthcare professionals with a practical, evidence-based overview of common and important presentations in...
6hrs
Advanced Practice (Webinar)
3hrs
£75 £65
This update is designed around clinical decision-making and real-world presentations, helping delegates translate assessment findings into safe man...
Intermediate
3hrs
Allied Health Professionals
30hrs
£495 £400
If you are a nurse, ANP, ACP, pharmacist, paramedic or healthcare professional looking to develop your skills in minor illness assessment and manag...
Intermediate
30hrs
£495 £400
New
Advanced Practice (Webinar)
6 hrs
£125
This course aims to equip healthcare professionals with the knowledge and skills to confidently interpret blood test results in clinical practice. ...
Beginner
14 Lectures
6 hrs
New
The Blood Results Interpretation Course is designed for healthcare professionals working in general practice, urgent care, and primary care setting...
Beginner
12 Lectures
6 hrs
Allied Health Professionals
3 months
£3,500
12-week Transition to General Practice Programme for pharmacists and nurses. Includes 60 hours supervised GP practice, physical examination, minor ...
Intermediate
3 months