EOEHCS STP Induction Day Feedback

Dear all,

The NSHCS are looking to gather feedback on the STP induction day event and how it can be improved. The list of questions they want to ask include:

1. Does the current format work? E.g., presentations in the morning and breakout sessions in the afternoon. If not what would you do differently to have the most impact?

2. What presentations do you feel are more useful – who should present?

3. Should we make it more interactive, if so how?

4. What are the key topics you think need to be covered?

5. What would you have wanted most from this day that you didn’t get or would want to see in future events?

6. How can current trainees be involved in this event – School is considering small table discussions/networking supported by existing trainees for example

7. Any other comments/ideas?

If you would like me to feed anything back to them about the day, send an email to us before the 17th March and I will pass the feedback on.

Best wishes,

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Network Board Changes

We're delighted to welcome two new members to the Network Board!

• Tengyue Zheng has taken on responsibility for our online content
• Frankie White has volunteered to be Secretary

See The Network Board for more information. 

Integrated Clinical Academic Careers Project

We have received an email about the Integrated Clinical Academic Careers Project, please see the information below if you or any colleagues are interested:

I’m delighted to let you know about this series of workshops I am leading on behalf of HEE about the Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme.

This project has been commissioned by HEE to fulfil 2 purposes:

1.       to provide information about the programme to increase the number & quality of future applications across all eligible non-medical professions,

2.       to actively collect feedback, experiences and opinions to assist HEE to consider any other factors that could better support this agenda.

It is important that we reach all eligible professional groups with this information and I would greatly appreciate your assistance in cascading this across your networks of Healthcare Scientists. Thank you!

We are still preparing case studies individuals of who’d like to share their own experiences, or feed in their comments to us. So please let us know if you or a colleague would like to talk to us about this programme?

And I’d also be really pleased to hear as soon as possible if you have any suggestions or comments about other agencies we could invite to join us at these workshops.

The timeline for this project is very short, so we’d love to hear from you straight away – thanks so much!! HRoddam@uclan.ac.uk

Please share this email widely across all your national contacts and networks: you can forward this email & I’ve also attached a pdf flyer for you to use.

We also have an individual flyer for each of the 4 HEE Regions that have the booking link.

Very many thanks –

Dr Hazel Roddam

Reader in Allied Health Practice

Meeting minutes

Minutes are available for all network Board Meetings; please contact eoehcs@gmail.com if you would like to see any specific ones.

Meeting dates available are:

• 23 November 2015
• 8 March 2016
• 23 May 2016
• 18 August 2016
• 8 November 2016

2 February 2017 will be available soon.

The next meeting will be held in early June 2017.

Chief Scientific Officer

Have you ever heard of the Chief Scientific Officer?

The CSO is the Head of Profession for all healthcare scientists (HCS) in NHS England. Her name is Dr Sue Hill and she's been in post for nearly 15 years. She takes the lead on a variety of issues affecting the HCS profession, including Modernising Scientific Careers, and providing professional advice and guidance across the health system.

An STP trainee rep attends the CSO HCS Strategy Meetings. Feedback from these meetings has included the following:

• Have a look at the Five Year Forward View for information on the future of the NHS: https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/
• Quality Improvement Champions group: https://www.networks.nhs.uk/nhs-networks/healthcare-science/news/healthcare-scientists-wanted-to-join-quality-improvement-group/newsitem_popview
• NHS Leadership Academy: http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/
• Women In Science Fellowship: https://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/about-us/wise-projects/csofellowships
• To sign up to the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) bulletin:  https://www.england.nhs.uk/publications/bulletins/cso-bulletin/
• Chief Scientific officer’s annual conference and healthcare science awards: https://www.events.england.nhs.uk/nhsengland/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=50665&eventID=228&eventID=228

One point raised was the desire to have different healthcare science specialisms working together more closely - the idea of 'One Voice' for us all, to increase our influence within the NHS. The Regional HCS Trainee Networks were held up as a great example of scientists from very different specialisms working together on the things we have in common, such as public engagement or running events, and the CSO wants qualified HC scientists to take their lead from us on this! The professional relationships we're building together at this stage will help us throughout our careers, and most importantly help to benefit patients - having contacts in various departments to provide advice would be an advantage, for example.

Clinical Coding

A member of the Network contacted us recently asking about Clinical Coding and Information Governance (Professional Practice Competency 19).

At our Board Meeting this afternoon, Alex shared a few of the resources that helped her to complete this competency. These links are:

Clinical coding (the last two are written to explain the concept to lay people, perfect if you've never heard of it before!)

• The World Health Organisation www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/
• Jordan Lee Smith, writing in The Guardian, 17th July 2015 www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/jul/17/clinical-coder-like-being-detective-nhs
• Institute of Health Records and Information Management, published 25 Aug 2016: www.ihrim.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=274:back-the-epr-arms-august-2016-coding&catid=54&Itemid=452

Relevant specifically to biochemisty:

• www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk/aki/blog/clinical-coding-and-acute-kidney-injury-aki/

For the Information Governance aspect, mandatory training via ESR Oracle may be useful:

• NHS e-Learning’s Introduction to Information Governance course
• HSCIC (now NHS Digital)’s Code of Practice on Confidential Information: http://systems.digital.nhs.uk/infogov/codes/cop/code.pdf -