PDI is the UK National Training Awards winner 2009!!
The National Training Awards is a prestigious award given for committment and achievement in training and education. The National Training Awards are delivered by UKSkills on behalf of the Department of Business Innovation and Skills in association with the Department of Employment and Learning and others , At a glittering gala ceremony at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London on December 10th, Mary scooped the UK award. Mary's entry 'was considered to be outstanding, exemplary and truly inspirational' and they were impressed by her ' passionate approach to training nurses' by the panel of judges.
Mary is seen here collecting her award from television presenter Natasha Kaplinsky at the Royal Horticultural Halls, London on 10th December 2009
Mary collecting her national award from ITV news presenter Steve Scott in Bristol on 15th October 2009
International Opportunities Ahead.
Mary will travel to Australia for a month in September 2010 with a delegation from UK Trade and Investment. There she hopes to gain interest and business opportunities for her online training programme. She will travel to various cities to meet other health professionals hwo are involved in training nurses and doctors particularly with regard to cervical cancer screening. Meetings have already been arranged at The Cancer Insitute in Sydney, Pap Screen Victoria in Melbourne, the CEO of The Australian Practice Nurse Association and Practice Nurse Trainers from the University, all from Melbourne. From there she flies to Canberra to meet with staff from the Primary Care Research Department and she hopes to meet with the RCN Australia and the Department of Health. So ther promises to be an exciting time ahead and news of her visit will be posted here.
Serbian health officials have secured EU funding to devlop a national screening programme for cervical, bowel and breast cancer. Mary has been asked by an agency to put her name forward for the bid to develop a training programme. So we wish the agency every success in their bid as Mary is very keen to repeat her visit to Serbia and to be involved with this exciting programme and also to be able to visit old friends and colleagues there from previous projects.
More excellent news
Plymouth University have approved PDI's cervical sample taker's course for academic credits toward a degree level module. Following successful completion of the basic course.a piece of written work is required. Anyone wishing to go thrugh this process should contact the University APEL Coordinator
Jane Campbell Baigry
J.campbell-baigrie@plymouth.ac.uk
Recent and ongoing projects.
Devon.
Mary continues to provide cervical sample taker courses that are commissioned by PCTs in Devon and Cornwall. These are the two day courses for new sample takers as well as half day updates. In addition, immunisation and travel updates, family planning and sexual health updates have also been run this year. these have been very well attended and consistently highly evaluated. Details of these courses can be found on the 'schedule of courses' page. Mary continues as an external examiner for The University of Exeter as well as providing study skills and dissertation writing sessions there for post graduate students.
Dorset
Mary was been commissioned by Bournemouth and Poole PCT to provide a basic and update immunisation course in Poole in August 2010
Gerry Hinton provided a teaching session for gps in Dorchester on ' Management for the Modern G.P' with excellent feedback.
Mary provided an update for last year's HCA cohort on influenza and pneuomococcal vaccination. She has recently provided a second update course in August 2010 in Poole, Dorset.
Devon
Mary commissioned Jon Bell and Richard Wood to provide a spirometry and inhaler course at Buckafst Abbey in 2009. Feedabck from one delegate' This is the best course I have attended in 25 years of being a nurse- thank you.' as a result of this successful course Richard will provide another full day course in November 2010
International Project News
Uzbekistan
Mary was commissioned by a Danish agency to provide a 'Training of Trainers' programme in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 2005 for 25 doctors who are involved in a TB programme. A management course was also commissioned and Gerry Hinton one of PDI's consultants, undertook this training in October.
Mary travelled again to Tashkent again in February 2006 and evaluated the work of the trainers. The results were very promising and the trainers rose to the occasion to proudly demonstrate their new teaching skills.
Egypt
Mary travelled to Egypt in October 2006 after being commissioned by NICO of northern Ireland to train family medicine nurses in primary care. Training took place in Alexandria and Menofia and included health promotion principles, weight loss, stop smoking , asthma and cervical cytology. This short project wasclosely linked with the faculty of nursing in Cairo and was very favourably received.
China
Mary travelled to China in Feb/ March 2007 with a representative of the Royal College of General Practitioners to talk at a series of seminars and meetings on primary care nursing in Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou.
Mary travelled again to China at the end of May 2007 to present a day of seminars about community nursing. She travelled this time to Wuxi independantly and not for the RCGP. As a result of this it is hoped that funding will; be available from the Chinese government to support a two year programme of training in China by PDI. Despite the hectic schedule, time was found for an unforgettable Chinese foot massage.
A delegation of Chinese officials will shortly visit the UK to observe the work of a primary care nurse It is hoped that training of trainers courses will then be provided in China by PDI next year.
Thailand
Mary travelled to Thailand in December 2007 and again in January 2008 with Sue Cross to provide a leadership programme for nurses in Thailand and to help to encourage the nurses to be involved in the development of primary care in Thailand.The Thai Nursing Council were extemely pleased with the change in behaviour and the demonstration of new found assertiveness skills. Students identified blocks to chnage and developed action plans to take their suggestions forward. They presented their plans of action on the final day to senior people from the Ministry of Health. Students from academic institutions who attended the course, accepted the new ways of learning enthusiastically and have alreday taken recommendations back to their institutions to introduce them into their curriculum.
EXCITING NEWS !!!
'ELIMINATING CERVICAL CANCER THROUGH EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION'
This is Mary's vision. So an online cervical sample taker's training package that meets national standards has been launched. Sample takers from colposcopy, family planning and genito-urinary clinics rarley attend the sample takers updates run by PDI, so they along with those nurses and doctors in primary care will now be able to take their training at a time that suits them.
A brand new respiratory update online has been launched. - to stay updated in asthma, copd and allergies just go to the online booking oage and purchase your evoucher.