TEMPLATE C- Individual Placement Description
Northern Deanery Foundation School (NDFS)
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust
Individual Placement Description
Placement
Foundation 2 General Practice
The department/Practice
FY2 General Practice placements are based in Cumbria
and consist of city and rural locations
All Practices providing placements have a reputation for
delivering high quality care and are high achievers in the
Quality and Outcomes framework and deliver a wide range
of services including :
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The type of work to expect and
learning opportunities
Chronic Disease Management,
Health promotion
Smoking cessation
Sexual health services
Minor Ops
In house anti-coagulant monitoring
Drug and Alcohol workers
Counselling services
Ante-natal clinics
All FY2s undertake a comprehensive Induction Programme
which includes spending time with a variety of internal and
external services. This is to ensure the F2s are fully
familiarised with General Practice prior to their clinical work
commencing.
The overall objective of the F2 placement in General
Practice is to:
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Take a history and examine a patient
Identify and synthesise problems
Prescribe safely
Keep an accurate and relevant medical record
Manage time and clinical priorities effectively
Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and
colleagues
Use evidence, guidelines and audit to benefit patient
care
Act in a professional manner at all times
Cope with ethical and legal issues which occur
during the management of patients with general
medical problems
Educate patients effectively
Become life-long learners and teachers.
Where the placement is based
Clinical
Supervisor(s)
placement
for
Various General Practices
the
General Practitioners
The F2 will have allocated weekly clinical supervision time to
review all patients seen in the previous week. In addition for
the first few weeks of the placement the F2 will have direct
support of a supervisor during clinics.
Main duties of the placement
Typical working
placement
pattern
Diagnosis and management of patients presenting at prebooked appointment slots including referrals to secondary
care or other services.
Recording of consultations in
electronic patient records. Participating in primary care team
meetings and providing support to other members of the
clinical team
in
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2 x Surgery Sessions
2 x Surgery Sessions
2 x Surgery Sessions
Teaching and Surgery Session
Tutorial and Surgery Session
On call requirements: None
Employer information
North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust was formed in
April 2001 and encompasses both the Cumberland Infirmary,
Carlisle, which was the first PFI Hospital in the UK,
(comprising 444 beds), and the West Cumberland Hospital,
Whitehaven (which has 425 beds). The Trust provides a
wide range of Clinical support services and most modern
investigational methods are now available on site. The
hospitals primarily provide services for North Cumbrian
residents, but they also offer services to patients in Dumfries
and Galloway, the Borders and parts of Northumberland.
Nearly all specialities are represented; three are subregional and several others are supra-district in nature.
The hospitals provide healthcare for a catchment area of
around 300,000. A wide range of services are provided with
visiting Consultants from Newcastle
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject to change.