CPD - Continued Professional Development

Heartbeat provides clinical and non-clinical education as well as local and national updates for the staff of Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby GP Practices.

Local Consultants, GPs and Nurses present on their specialist subjects, keeping the staff of these practices up to date with relevant information which is directly beneficial to the patients they care for.

This education is predominantly via virtual delivery which includes one to two webinars or meetings per month. These are recorded and may be accessed through the Heartbeat App and viewed as a video or listened to as podcasts with supporting documentation.  Through this medium we endeavour to make our virtual delivery accessible to our busy healthcare professionals in a format and at a time that suits them.

We also host three face-to-face events per year in a hotel setting. This allows time for peer discussion, teamwork, and deliberation on current issues within healthcare, as well as providing clinical education.  Over one hundred attend these events on a regular basis.

In addition to this, we also organise set mandatory training, which includes Safeguarding Level 3, Vaccs & Imms updates and Travel Health Updates.  To enhance education on mandatory training, we also host a webinar for those who perform Cervical Screening in their practices.