- Medicology NHS Training Courses

Advanced Communication Skills for Healthcare Professionals

CPD Points: 16
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Wednesday 12th September 2012 - Thursday 13th September 2012

Advamced Communications is designed to take your ability to communicate in a wide variety of scenarios to the next level in terms of effectiveness. Almost everything you do is reliant on effective communication and this course is as comprehensive as they come, covering everything from the core principles to the advanced use of negotiating or influencing techniques. Whether you want to improve your clinical leadership or operate more effectively with management, you'll find the skills invaluable and the programme highly practical.

Advanced Influencing, Negotiation and Engagement Skills

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2012

No matter what your position in medicine, being successful means engaging with, influencing and sometimes negotiating with a wide variety of professional colleagues, from front line care to healthcare management. For healthcare leaders, the importance of influence is crucial. This intensive, one-day course is designed to enhance your personal effectiveness, professional impact and credibility by equipping you with advanced skills in influencing, without you having to resort to coercion and manipulation simply to get things done.

Advanced Leadership for Senior & Hyperbusy Leaders

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Friday 12th October 2012

If you find yourself constantly facing an ever shifting set of busy challenges and changes, Advanced Leadership for Hyperbusy Leaders will help you sort the wood from the trees. This advanced-level course is highly practical, very fast-paced and designed to give you a superior ability to get the best from those you lead. You'll develop insight into the thought processes and practises of some of the most effective leaders around whilst never losing sight of the practicalities of leading on the front line of our modern health service.

Appraisals, Revalidation & Portfolios

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Manchester

Next Date: Wednesday 30th May 2012

Despite the vital nature of getting appraisals & portfolios right with revalidation just around the corner, most doctors have never received training in how to prepare effectively and get the most out of the appraisal process either for themselves or the service in general. This really important course covers the latest understanding of the revalidation process, the burden of evidence, developing meaningful portfolios and how to prepare for the appraisal itself. Vital and highly practical.

Assertiveness without Aggression

CPD Points: 8
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Bristol

Next Date: Tuesday 19th June 2012

Helping consultants & juniors successfully assert themselves is an area we approach very supportively, developing capability without ever changing the person inside. It’s so easy for those to whom assertiveness doesn’t come naturally to feel manipulated, bullied and sometimes not quite in control. Despite your exceptional level of knowledge you may suffer low self esteem and a lack of confidence when it comes to being assertive. On the flip side, you probably wouldn’t want to be thought of as rude or forceful.

Change Management Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals

CPD Points: 12
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Tuesday 30th October 2012 - Wednesday 31st October 2012

Change is the one constant facing just about every service in the emerging landscape, whether it is new ways of working, financial reform or a major project. The easy way is to set it up right in the first place, ensure you get the right people on board, then plan and execute in a timely fashion with minimal resistance. This requires the right knowledge, insight and skills and that's exactly what this course is designed to deliver. Focused, practical and cutting to the heart of the real difficulties in change.

Clinical Management & Leadership for Latter Year Trainees & Newer Consultants

CPD Points: 25
Duration: 3 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Monday 8th October 2012 - Wednesday 10th October 2012

Welcome to the finest preparatory course available for specialist registrars approaching completion of training. This course is designed to enable you to make a step change in your ability to be effective as a new consultant in your specialty, whilst demonstrating your clear commitment to effective leadership. It is packed with the knowledge and skills that you’ll need to competently achieve, as well as specialty-specific insight into the challenges you’ll be facing as a new consultant in the evolving health service.

Commissioning Insights - Replacing Vulnerability with Knowledge, Influence and Opportunity

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Wednesday 11th July 2012

In medicine, a failure to spot and act on the critical issues has always been associated with a higher mortality. That’s no less true when it comes to commissioning too. Few Trusts and Services really understand the emerging commissioning system and how it will behave. This leaves them in a position of considerable vulnerability.

Communication Skills for Junior & Middle Grade Doctors

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Manchester

Next Date: Tuesday 22nd May 2012

It is well known that most complaints and litigation come from poor communication process. Equally, clinical mistakes stem from a lack of communication strategy and poor communication style contributes to most interpersonal conflict in the workplace. This fast-paced course is highly effective on improving communication skills essential to junior doctors, handling patients, parents & relatives and dealing with situations where improved communication clarity is likely to lead to improve results and outcomes. A very powerful course.

Consultant Interview Skills

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Birmingham

Next Date: Saturday 09th June 2012

Most people would not even consider taking an exam without acquiring the requisite knowledge, skills and insight in preparation for it and therefore why would you approach perhaps one of the most important events in your life, getting the right consultant job, with any greater uncertainty than there needs to be? You wouldn’t. In fact, we know that you’d want to absolutely ensure you stood the best possible chance of success. That is why we have developed The Medicology Gold Standard Approach to consultant interview success.

Core Skillls in Job Planning for SAS Doctors

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

Many SAS doctors are new to the job planning process, unclear of its intended purpose and therefore rightly approach it with trepidation. This powerful course clearly demonstrates why job planning is essential both to support the SAS doctor in performing optimally but also for effective organisational performance as a whole. The course reviews the “rules & regulations” of SAS job plans as well as the process that needs to be gone through from both sides to develop effective plans.

Core Skills for the Clinical Service Lead

CPD Points: 19
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Wednesday 23rd May 2012 - Thursday 24th May 2012

Whether you aspire to or are already in the role of clinical service lead or clinical director, this powerful and practical programme is vital learning. Designed to provide an effective framework and the practical skills necessary to drive services forward, it is firmly grounded in the issues facing service leaders today and how best to approach resolving them. It’s packed with people, leadership & change skills necessary for the uncomfortable seat at the helm.

Core Skills for the Newer Consultant

CPD Points: 15
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Thursday 27th September 2012 - Friday 28th September 2012

A raft of practical strategies built into an easy to manage framework that ensures you excel as a consultant, gain the best from your staff and carry yourself with utmost professionalism. This course is designed as an intensive submersion into the key areas necessary to succeed in being an exceptional consultant. Covering everything from new found managerial responsibility to fiscal probity, risk, governance and even the business of health, it acts as a comprehensive framework packed with the practical application of core skills.

Core Skills in Appraisal Effectiveness

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Friday 14th September 2012

This course is primarily aimed at APPRAISERS Despite the vital nature of getting appraisals right, few have ever received training in how to set up and conduct appraisals effectively. Appraisals form an essential component of revalidation, recertification and relicensing and remain the core methodology for tying organisational priorities to individual goals, activities and competency. The appraisal itself can be a stressful experience for both appraise and appraiser, where effective communication skills are essential.

Core Skills in Clinical & Service Audit

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Friday 29th June 2012

Audit is a fundamental tool for improving both quality and performance in health and yet many healthcare professionals have never had any formal audit training, often resulting in a loss or dilution of the significant benefits it offers. Commencing with the core skills necessary to run successful audit projects in either the clinical or service domains, we then focus on ensuring that audit results are built successfully into an improvement strategy that delivers consistent attention to factors contributing to results.

Core Skills in Clinical Effectiveness & Improvement

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Tuesday 02nd October 2012

Clinical effectiveness is an absolute baseline today. Dropping the clinical ball can result in adverse media attention and reputational risk, not to mention the distress to patients and impact on morale. Services need to compete on quality to ensure their enduring success, especially as the number of providers increases within a locality. This course is packed with strategies, advice and skills to assist you in taking clinical effectiveness to th enext level, regardless of starting point. Leadership & management with a clinical focus!

Core Skills in Clinical Governance

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Thursday 14th June 2012

Clinical Governance has become the backbone for ensuring that NHS organisations are accountable for continuously improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care. Many front line service providers feel inadequately equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources to ensure that Clinical Governance delivers all that it promises. This course provides you with the essential knowledge and tools you need to drive forward service development and progression with increased quality and patient safety.

Core Skills in Finance & Financial Management for Clinical Leaders

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Thursday 05th July 2012

Developed in conjunction with a Senior NHS Finance Director, this course is designed for the consultants, senior nurses and PAMs who would like NHS finance and business planning demystified to the point of being understandable and manageable. Particular emphasis on what it takes to be financially successful in today’s NHS environment, the course balances detailed understanding of the principles and process of NHS money flow with practical skills to operate successfully ensuring services survive and thrive in the new market economy.

Core Skills in Job Planning

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

Effective services have sensible consultant job plans that are closely matched to attainment of important organisational objectives. However, those responsible for establishing job plans and holding discussions with their consultant colleagues find agreeing job plans one of the most stressful activities they have to engage in.

Core Skills in Marketing, PR & Reputation Management for Clinical Services

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Monday 08th October 2012

A successful service today needs to manage it reputation, image and positioning to ensure that it enjoys a healthy flow of the right patients, thus impacting funding. This intensive course is practical, fast-paced and covers the critical principles necessary for effectiveness across the arena of marketing, PR & reputation management. It is designed to help clinical services to take charge of their future.

Core Skills in Patient Experience Excellence

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Wednesday 03rd October 2012

With the government committed to a choice agenda, money following the patient through payment by results and GP Commissioners encouraged to increase provider numbers, it is essential that all services get their house in order in this vital area. This course, designed for those taking the lead, comprehensively covers developing a patient experience excellence strategy and implementing it throughout a team, department or even a whole Trust.

Core Skills in People Effectiveness for Service Leaders

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Tuesday 02nd October 2012

The expectations on modern clinical services are immense against a backdrop of low morale and increased uncertainty. The service that does not effectively organise, utilise and manage its workforce is unlikely to have the capacity, efficiency and drive to produce the sort of performance that leads to success in the evolving landscape. This highly practical but immensely powerful programme is designed to help service leaders, consultants & senior professionals from across healthcare organise teams for maximum effectiveness.

Core Skills in Setting Effective Direction for Clinical Teams

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

Effective direction is probably the single most important factor in driving performance and improvement, clinical or otherwise. Whereas it is often viewed as an art, we believe it is more akin to science, with a sound evidence base and known principles. This comprehensive course examines all facets of effective direction, providing you with all the knowledge, skills and practical approaches to ensure you gain the greatest possible performance and achievement from your clinical team.

Core Skills in Strategic Effectiveness for Service Leaders

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Monday 01st October 2012

Quite naturally, clinical & service leaders tend to focus on clinical quality, evolution and innovation. However, an increasingly competitive market place demands attention to all components of clinical business excellence if services are to survive and thrive. This intensive, one-day programme comprehensively covers strategic service leadership, enabling leaders to balance priorities effectively, whilst strategically guiding and evolving services so that they may seize opportunities and mitigate threats.

Foundation Course in Leadership & Management for FY Doctors

CPD Points: 5
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

Gain knowledge, skills and insight into effective leadership and management, allowing you to become an effective clinical leader. This powerful course is designed to provide a significant foundation whilst recognising your career stage. Giving insight into the Medical Leadership Competency Framework, jointly developed by The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, it also provides you with clear guidance on how to go about developing those competencies throughout your progression.

Improving Discharge Time & Operational Efficiency Whilst Permanently Reducing the Bed-base

CPD Points: 3
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

With a huge focus on cost reduction and efficiency improvement, discharge time and bed-base continue to have a significant impact on a service’s financial status. This highly practical mini-conference lifts the lid of what’s really possible by examining how a major neurology service reduced its bed base by 50% permanently. Examining a range of influencing factors and the change itself, the afternoon will provide both practical steps and the data to support a change.

Insights - Understanding the Evolving Healthcare Landscape

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Bristol

Next Date: Tuesday 29th May 2012

The healthcare landscape is evolving at a pace that few can keep up with, or even appreciate. The raft of changes creeping in represent both tremendous risks and opportunities for the frontline teams taking the trouble to understand their current and evolving environment. This one day programme strips the rhetoric away from the harsh reality of modern healthcare and provides an insight into the drivers of change, likely political manoeuvres and what this really means for secondary/tertiary Trusts and the clinical teams within.

Leadership & Management Fundamentals for SAS Doctors

CPD Points: 20
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Monday 17th September 2012 - Tuesday 18th September 2012

Designed specifically for senior SAS Doctors taking up wider roles and responsibilities, particularly if progressing towards a consultant post through the CESR (Article 14) route of entry onto the Specialist Register, this highly practical and extremely comprehensive leadership & management programme will ensure you can fully demonstrate your commitment to effective leadership and management. Grounded in the issues of today and with valuable extra support, it will ensure you go from working in a service to working on it & leading it!

Leadership Excellence for Middle Grade Doctors

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Manchester

Next Date: Tuesday 26th June 2012

All SpR-level staff are expected to demonstrate a commitment to developing their potential as healthcare leaders. Effective leadership is an essential factor in the successful delivery of healthcare and also a key differentiator for those seeking consultant posts. This course investigates the key leadership issues in both a practical and theoretical sense. Designed to deliver measurable benefits in leading and motivating the staff around you, as well as providing the building blocks to develop as an exceptional healthcare leader.

Leadership Masterclass for Healthcare Professionals

CPD Points: 19
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Thursday 21st June 2012 - Friday 22nd June 2012

One of the cornerstones of effective healthcare performance is the quality of leadership. Leadership Masterclass represents the latest thinking in how to drive groups of people to achieve great things. Focusing on both the leadership of self and others, it provides a deep level of insight into current theory and how it can be deployed in the leadership, motivation and influencing of people. At a practical level, it will help you provide strong guidance to people in a wide variety of scenarios from every day working to a sudden crisis.

Management Excellence for Junior & Middle Grade Doctors

CPD Points: 5
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Manchester

Next Date: Wednesday 27th June 2012

Suddenly in a responsible clinical role you find that all the technical & medical knowledge you've worked hard to gain is only part of the story when managing people. To progress effectively as a doctor it is essential that you develop competency as a manager and this is a key CV requirement for gaining a consultant post. This one-day comprehensive seminar covers all the essential topics in a practical way, to enable you to really develop your management skills in the clinical context.

Management Masterclass for Consultants

CPD Points: 16
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: Bristol

Next Date: Wednesday 30th May 2012 - Thursday 31st May 2012

There`s a world of difference between managing patients and managing services and yet many consultants find themselves in charge of large numbers of people and huge budgets without formal training or development. Management Masterclass is designed to look practically at how you can excel in your role as manager in the context of today`s NHS and your concurrent role as a consultant. With an emphasis on creating effective clinical and team performance it gets to the heart of modern management science in a medical context.

Managing & Supporting the Poorly Performing Doctor

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Sheffield

Next Date: Thursday 28th June 2012

One of the most stressful roles a doctor performs is that of managing performance issues with juniors or even colleagues. Despite feeling like a minefield of legal principles, individual sensitivities and clinical governance, using the right approach coupled with effective skills results in rapid attainment or restoration of acceptable clinical standards and a life-long fan thanks to the support you have provided. This highly practical, leading edge course will leave you confident of achieving the right impact.

Mastering Business Development, Partnerships & Tenders

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Tuesday 09th October 2012

Healthcare reform into a competitive, market economy creates the necessity to engage in active business development in all its forms. It is essential that the right skills and approaches are adopted to maximise opportunities whilst minimising risk. This comprehensive course covers everything from identification of opportunities, through the actual business development process and onwards to tendering. Practical, innovative and designed to give your service the edge in a competitive landscape.

Optimising Cost Improvement Programmes at a Service Level

CPD Points: 5
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

The NHS is likely to suffer a funding shortfall of around £15 billion in the three years post 2010/11 and consequently cost improvement can now be seen as a continual process, not an episodic activity. More importantly, it is vital that cost improvement is approached in an intelligent, collaborative manner with full regard for the necessity to deliver clinical excellence. This course enables you to gain maximum returns with minimal impact, whilst ensuring that patient care and staff morale remain at the heart of the process.

Optimising the Management & Supervision of Doctors in Training

CPD Points: 3
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

The nature of training and the doctors produced has altered radically over recent years but in many cases the evolution of how to supervise, manage and get the best from juniors has lagged behind. The challenges arising from more numerous but less experienced juniors, full shift systems, EWTD and more now have the potential to undermine service quality, financial security and competitiveness unless we rethink the management and supervision of doctors in training.

People, Relationships & Conflict - Improving Interpersonal Effectiveness

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Bristol

Next Date: Thursday 21st June 2012

Our ability to get on with our peers, manage tension, interact effectively and behave in a productive, respectful fashion is one of the key determinants of organisational performance. This course delivers an advanced understanding of how people are wired, what motivates their behaviour both normally and under situations of opposition or conflict and how to deal with this. Participants gain huge self-awareness into the own behaviour and how this can impact people who are different.

Presentation Excellence for Clinical Professionals

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Thursday 20th September 2012

Gain the confidence and skills to articulate, excel and inspire in presentations & teaching. Presentations and teaching skills form one of the core backbone elements of a successful medical career. Presentation Excellence for Clinical Professionals deals with the core elements of effectiveness in this area.

Project Leadership Skills

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Wednesday 17th October 2012

Project Leadership Skills are one of the critical elements of a successful manager or leader. So much of our time is devoted to achieving projects, changes or initiatives and yet few have ever had any training in how to do this. It's not surprising that so many projects fail to hit deadlines or realise the benefits intended. This focused but comprehensive course shows you how to get projects right from the start, plan them expertly, manage risk and confounding factors and ensure they produce what they are supposed to.

The Effective Business Case

CPD Points: 3
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

A fundamental component of both finance and the business of health in general is the creation of effective business cases to support activity, investment, strategy and purchasing decisions. It’s a role that every consultant or clinical leader is called upon to undertake from time to time. Creating an effective business case has a big impact on your service.

The Healthcare Leadership Summit 2013

CPD Points: 12
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: London

Next Date: Thursday 24th January 2013 - Friday 25th January 2013

2 days of innovative thinking, new perspectives and vital solutions designed to enable services to break free from inertia, overcome their greatest challenges and seize the future (first).

The Productive Meeting

CPD Points: 3
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

Given the sheer number of operational meetings each person engages in, we cannot afford the current level of meeting ineffectiveness. We spend more and more of our time in meetings and yet people often voice that meetings are a complete waste of time. We can change this. With the right set of skills, processes and strategies an effective meeting is possible every time. This powerful course will have you running meetings that people look forward to because they achieve.

Time Management & Personal Effectiveness for Healthcare Professionals

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: Birmingham

Next Date: Thursday 14th June 2012

Creating high achievers with more energy and better work-life balance. You're probably successful already but I bet it could feel easier! There are many compelling reasons to access strategies and support and very few are about being poor at time management. Packed full of practical strategies to plan and prioritise effectively, manage the never ending influx of work and regain effective work-life balance. Achieve more this year. You deserve it for all your hard work.

Time Management & Personal Effectiveness for Junior & Middle Grade Doctors

CPD Points: 5
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

Aimed specifically at doctors in training, this is probably the most powerful course in personal effectiveness you will find. The successful junior or middle grade doctor needs a unique combination of skills combining a high team orientation with strong time management and organisational skills coupled with a delicate balancing act between learning and delivering. Packed full of practical strategies to plan and prioritise effectively, manage the never ending influx of work and regain effective work-life balance.

Time Management for Consultants

CPD Points: 9
Duration: 1 day
Next Location: London

Next Date: Friday 25th May 2012

Welcome to probably the most powerful medical Time Management Course and it’s specifically for consultants. Feeling like it's impossible to balance clinical and administrative requirements? Struggling to achieve work-life balance? Well, this course makes a lasting difference to people's lives and remains one of our most recommended. It's practical, filled with insightful advice about managing load, regaining control, achieving goals and more. It includes pre-course assessments and post course implementation and support. Powerful!

Train the Trainer

CPD Points: 12
Duration: 2 days
Next Location: Derby

Next Date: Tuesday 19th June 2012 - Wednesday 20th June 2012

This isn’t just a train-the-trainer course, it’s the Medicology Train-the-Trainer Programme and if you’ve participated in Medicology training before you’ll know that its output is the kind of teacher/trainer that delivers an exceptional quality of learning in a high impact form regardless of the duration of any learning event. This programme enables you to challenge and stretch learners in a supportive manner that delivers significant behavioural change and adoption of principles and skills taught.

Ultimate Medical Time Management & Personal Effectiveness

CPD Points: 12
Duration: 2 days
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

What we achieve in life, whether at work, in business ventures or at play, is wholly related to how we think, our organisational & prioritisation skills and what we hold ourselves to actually doing. Successful people adopt a gameplan and mindset that delivers that success. It’s not random, or luck.

Ultimate Medical Time Management & Personal Effectiveness - Day 1

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

What we achieve in life, whether at work, in business ventures or at play, is wholly related to how we think, our organisational & prioritisation skills and what we hold ourselves to actually doing. Successful people adopt a gameplan and mindset that delivers that success. It’s not random, or luck.

Ultimate Medical Time Management & Personal Effectiveness - Day 2

CPD Points: 6
Duration: 1 day
Next Location:

Next Date: TBA

What we achieve in life, whether at work, in business ventures or at play, is wholly related to how we think, our organisational & prioritisation skills and what we hold ourselves to actually doing. Successful people adopt a gameplan and mindset that delivers that success. It’s not random, or luck.

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