Protected Learning Time

“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.

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

Date	Time	Location
5 October 2021	2.00 - 5.30pm	Virtual
6 July 2021	2.00 - 5.30pm	Virtual
23 April 2021	2.00 - 5.30pm	In Primary Care Networks
15 October 2020	1:30 - 5:45pm	Virtual
7 July 2020	1.30 - 5.00 pm	Virtual (Zoom)
30 April 2020	Event Cancelled	-
23 January 2020 Arts and health for wellbeing	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

What topics have we covered?

The first PLT session was held in January 2019, and since then the events have hosted 8 keynote speakers and 57 different workshops, led by clinicians covering various areas of work in primary care.

In recognition of the difficult winter delivering vaccinations and coping with covid, in April 2021 the PLT was devolved to the Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to focus on staff wellbeing and resilience.

Keynote speakers

Sepsis – looking into the seeds of time to say which fevers will grow and which will not, Dr Donald Richardson, Consultant Renal Physician and Associate Medical Director.
Addressing Childhood Adversity (ACEs) in Professional Practice, Dr Warren Larkin, Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
Palliative and end of life care, Dr Dan Cottingham.
Arts and health for wellbeing: community resilience, Dr Nicola Gill.
Back to Better, Professor Rebecca Malby.
Living with dementia - Damian Murphy and the Mind and Voices group
What Dementia can teach us about love, Nicci Gerarrd - Novelist
Myron Rogers, Leadership of Living Systems: Changing the Way We Change.

Clinical areas of focus

To date workshops have covered areas such as:

Adverse Childhood Experiences	Faecal Immunochemical Test	Perinatal mental health
Antibiotic prescribing	Fertility problems and IVF	Planetary health
Arts for health and wellbeing	Healthy Child Programme	Polypharmacy
Avoiding burnout	IAPT and health anxieties	Prescribing safety
Back pain management	Liver function tests	Primary care workforce
Breast cancer	Lower GI 2 week wait	Reducing opiate usage
Cancer screening	Managing weightloss	Resilient practice
Cancer waits and recovery	Maternal mental health	Safeguarding
CAMHs	Memory assessment services	Self-care: OTC meds
Colorectal pathway and anaemia	Menopause	Sexual health
Creative arts for health	Mindfulness	Smoking cessation
Dementia pathway	New roles in primary care	Suicide prevention
Dementia diagnosis and support	Nimbuscare – GP providers	Surviving and thriving
Deprescribing	Nursing innovation	Tips from the coroner
Diabetes	Nursing recruitment	Urinary Tract Infections
Digital engagement	Online consultations	Wound care
End of Life Care	Paediatrics

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.