“Creating opportunities for professional learning and development”

Protected Learning Time (PLT) events are peer-led sessions for GPs, Registered Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Allied Health Professionals and Physician Associates from across the Vale of York.

PLT provides an opportunity for healthcare professionals to learn about new clinical developments, updates to national guidance, and best practice whilst also sharing their own experience and knowledge with their peers.

Fundamentally PLT is about improving patient care by providing a dedicated learning time for healthcare professionals away from their busy day-to-day primary care work.

These events takes place four times a year, and will evolve and be tailored to the needs of clinicians. It is delivered in partnership with NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group and the Academy of Primary Care, part of the Hull and York Medical School.

Clinical Areas of Focus

The first PLT session was held in January 2019, and since then the events have hosted dozens of different workshops led by clinicians covering various different areas of work in primary care. Keynote speeches have also been delivered on topics such as adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), end of life care and sepsis.

To date workshops have covered areas such as:

Child and Adolescent Mental Health	De-prescribing
Diabetes	Tips from the coroner
Safeguarding	Maternal mental health
Polypharmacy	Online consulting
Cancer screening	Liver function tests
Sexual health	Paediatrics
Back pain management	Suicide prevention
Digital engagement	Wound care
Fertility problems	Antibiotic prescribing
Prescribing safety	Breast cancer
Healthy Child Programme	Faecal Immunochemical Test
Menopause	Urinary Tract Infections

It is important to us that these events are peer-led to ensure that they are clinically relevant to healthcare professionals and enables them to share their knowledge and experiences for the benefits of patients across the Vale of York.

Feedback

We have received very positive feedback from attendees across all of our PLT events. At our October PLT 90% of respondents rated the workshops and opening session as either good or very good.

Click on the dates to go to a page containing presentations and information from each of the events.

Date	Time	Location
30 April 2020	1.30 – 5.30pm	York Racecourse, Tadcaster Rd, York
23 January 2020	1.30 – 5.30pm	York Racecourse, Tadcaster Rd, York
15 October 2019	1.30 – 5.30pm	York Racecourse, Tadcaster Rd, York
3 July 2019	1.30 – 5.30pm	York Racecourse, Tadcaster Rd, York
11 April 2019	1.30 – 5.30pm	York Racecourse, Tadcaster Rd, York
31 January 2019	1.30 – 5.30pm	York Racecourse, Tadcaster Rd, York