The Black Country GPN Strategy was formally launched in early October 2019.
The aim of the strategy is to define our values for all our nurses, fellow professionals, patients' carers and the public we serve; to make a clear statement that regardless of your discipline or specialism of nursing, your work setting or location across the Black Country, that delivering high quality, safe and personal care is at the heart of what you do.
The strategy provides a framework for an ICS-wide nursing plan through seven domains. Partners within the ICS have agreed to:
- Support excellence in care through learning in association with patients, their families and service users.
- Increase focus on quality and continually seek to improve the care provided.
- Encourage the best nurses to join practices within the Black Country footprint and embrace diversity through skilled appointments.
The strategy also includes a suite of companion documents that offer:
- A career progression framework aligned to the HEE career and education framework for GPNs
- A competency framework based on the RCGP GPN framework
- An induction and preceptorship framework based on existing programmes e.g. Capital Nurse
- Guidance around Clinical Supervision for GPNs
- A retention strategy for GPNs
GPN Fellowship closed on 31 March 2024 and we will not be receiving any further applications. If you have any queries, please contact primarycare.blackcountry@nhs.net.
NHS England’s General Practice Fellowship scheme is designed to support newly qualified and new to practice GPs and nurses to gain experience as valued members of the primary care team, within a supportive environment.
The programme will help practices, PCNs and ICSs to recruit and retain GPs and nurses by offering attractive roles that lead to long term employment within primary care. (General Practice Fellowships: Making primary care a great place to work).
The Black Country Training Hub is seeking expressions of interest from practices to support qualified nurses to access a GPN Fellowship scheme to provide a high quality first experience in general practice. As per revised national guidance, the GPN Fellowship is open to newly qualified nurses (within 12 months of qualification) and those who are new to practice (within 12 months of recruitment).
For more information regarding the GPN Fellowship programme or to submit an expression of interest for the scheme please email primarycare.
If you would like support with GPN recruitment, please contact the Training Hub at primarycare.
As you may be aware from previous years, NHS England (formerly HEE) funds limited places on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) and also the Fundamentals of General Practice Nursing courses (“Fundamentals”).
For this financial year, we have been allocated funding for the following courses:
- Fundamentals of General Practice Nursing
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSc – Full course or Top Up
- Advanced Clinical Practitioner MSc - Apprenticeship
PLEASE NOTE: If you are applying for ACP Course, please ensure you have been working in practice for the period specified in the university guidelines around advanced practice trainees. (it’s usually 3 years in their current clinical setting) and you have the support of your practice for supervision.
We will be able to allocate funding to staff who have successfully applied for a place on the course at one of the universities listed below. In order to secure this funding we will need you to complete the relevant form - https://forms.office.com/e/53VzDgh9Sa with the name of the university who have offered the place and details of your line managerFor all spring programmes (Jan – March 2024) this will need to be completed by Thursday 24th November 2023.
The contact details for the courses are shown below – ANY QUERIES REGARDING APPLICATION PROCESSES PLEASE CONTACT THE UNIVERSITY DIRECTLY: email addresses for the general admissions team will be on the university website
It is advised that you start your application once you submit the funding request form. This will also need your line mangers approval.
Please feel free to inform those who may be interested, including nurses, pharmacists and any other Allied Health Professions in your practice such as Paramedics or Physios.
Any problems please contact the Training Hub email address primarycare.
