Louise Hodgson gains role as Education, Training and Professional Development Lead

Congratulations to Louise Hodgson who has gained a role as Education, Training and Professional Development Lead for Wakefield General Practice Workforce Development Academy (WGPWDA).

Louise developed the Academy as part of her Fellowship year and was hence asked to continue working with them following completion of her fellowship. 

Louise was one of our first fellows from a nursing background so we're really pleased that she's been able to use the skills she developed to gain this role.

You can view more of Louise's achievements by clicking on the Fellow Profiles tab of the Alumni section and viewing her post summary.

Dr Mat Fortnam wins RCGP Award

Congratulations to Dr Mat Fortnam who also won a Best in Category Award at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference last week.

Mat won the Service Delivery category for his work on looking at the implementation of Primary Care Practitioners in a General Practice setting at Haxby Group Practice. Mat presented his work orally at the conference as well as in poster format.

Mat will be working with Haxby as a qualified GP when he gains his CCT next year.

Well done Mat!

Dr Rob Eastham wins 2 awards!

Congratulations to Dr Robert Eastham (GPST3 and Alumni Leadership Fellow).

Rob has won not ONE but TWO awards in recent weeks for his quality improvement project in the two-week wait suspected cancer referral process. He created the Digitally Assembled Referral Toolkit (DART) as part of this.

Rob presented his work at the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Annual Conference and the System One National User Group (SNUG). The project won the Clinical Transformation Award 2017 at SNUG and the best poster in the QI category at RCGP. As a result of his work the CCG are now very keen to work with Rob in the future - well done Rob!

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