Would you like an NPC Trainer to run a local workshop for you?

In September 2001 we began offering additional therapeutic-style local workshops on request to a broader spectrum of healthcare professionals as a trial development. After receiving a phenomenal number of enquiries, we have now delivered over 150 of these bespoke events to well over 2000 attendees.

The audience has included GPs, community pharmacists, prison pharmacists, primary care technicians, as well as nurses from both primary and secondary care. Most of the workshops have been run on a multi-disciplinary basis and again have been extremely well received.

We can now offer to run events on the following eight key therapeutic topics:

• Management of common infections
• Diabetes
• Hypertension
• Management of dyslipidaemia
• Dyspepsia
• Depression
• NSAIDs and analgesics
• Asthma

If, for example, a PCT is interested in implementing a programme around improving diabetes care, their team will need to have a good understanding of the evidence-base underpinning the therapeutics of diabetes. We can offer prescribing advisers, GP Prescribing Leads, prescribing technicians, nurses or any other relevant healthcare professionals a high quality education session run by one of our experienced trainers. These events could also be used to help support the implementation of a specific piece of NICE guidance/ appraisal, e.g. coxibs, atypical antipsychotics, etc.

As part of the developing work of the NPC entitled NPC Plus we are able to offer these workshops on a much wider scale than the previous pilot. In order to finance this development, we will now be charging PCTs a fee to cover our costs of running these events. Please contact Trudy Granby for details of this service and any packages we can offer. For an information pack please contact Sharon Wright (0151 794 8135 or email sharon.wright@npc.nhs.uk).