{"id":13190,"date":"2020-08-24T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?page_id=13190"},"modified":"2025-07-14T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:25:43","slug":"improving-the-quality-of-your-referral-module","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/improving-the-quality-of-your-referral-module\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer &#8211; Improving the Quality of your Referral Module &#8211; Gateway C (e-learning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Target Audience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All Primary Care Professionals including GP&#8217;s and Practice Nurses<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This course aims to support healthcare professional in making high quality and appropriate suspected cancel referrals. You will be presented with specialist discussions alongside examples of patient communication and a range of activities to reinforce learning points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Content:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This course covers the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Making the right decision:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Clinical decision making and safety netting, including a toolkit to support this<\/li>\n<li><strong>Preparing your patient:\u00a0<\/strong>What patients want to know when a referral is made to effectively support them and to reduce the number of DNAs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Addressing inequalities:\u00a0<\/strong>Benefits and challenges of remote consultations, including strategies for tailoring care to patient needs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Completing quality referrals:\u00a0<\/strong>Information that should be included in the referral to reduce avoidable delays at secondary care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Specialist interviews include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Richard Roope, RCGP and CRUK, discussing theory and practice behind preparing a patient<\/li>\n<li>Dr Pawan Randev, GP and Cancer Lead for East Midlands Cancer Alliance, discussing effective safety netting practice<\/li>\n<li>Dr Neil Smith, GP and Primary Care Lead for Lancs and South Cumbria Cancer Alliance, discussing remote consultations and the benefits and challenges<\/li>\n<li>Miss Susi Penney, Consultant in Head, Neck and Thyroid Surgery\/Otolaryngology, detailing what makes a quality referral<\/li>\n<li>Real patient stories on delayed diagnoses &#8211; Beth Purvis, Andrew Smith and Craig McIlquham<\/li>\n<li>Patient representatives &#8211; Saeed Shakibai, Dame Deborah James and Lauren Mahon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Trainer\/Facilitator:\u00a0<\/b>Gateway C<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date\/Time\/Venue:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is e-learning so can be undertaken at any time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no cost for this training<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booking Process\/Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatewayc.org.uk\/courses\/improving-the-quality-of-your-referral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go to the module<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target Audience: All Primary Care Professionals including GP&#8217;s and Practice Nurses Overview: This course aims to support healthcare professional in making high quality and appropriate suspected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13190"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25224,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13190\/revisions\/25224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}