Short Courses for Practice Management and Staff

UPCOMING COURSES

UPCOMING COURSES

Effective Coding in Primary Care (EMIS)

£84 (inc VAT) per person.

Date: Wednesday 5th February 2025

(9.30am to 12.30pm)
Park View Health Partnership, Burgess Hill, West Sussex

This half-day workshop for non-clinical practice staff provides an introduction to the importance and benefits of effective coding.

What is coding?

Historical perspective / Hierarchy and Structure / Current Usage

Why we need to use them appropriately.

Adding information to the Patient Record

How to locate the perfect code / Dating codes/ Using episodicity / Promoting to Problems / Use of Resolved and Exception Codes

How can we improve our data quality?

Common Codes and Abbreviations / Mistakes and how to correct them / Legal Considerations

Trainer: Cathie Shipton, Associate Trainer, Syder and Young Ltd.

Effective Coding in Primary Care (SystmOne)

£84 (inc VAT) per person.

Date: Wednesday 5th February 2025

(1.30pm to 4.30pm)
Park View Health Partnership, Burgess Hill, West Sussex

This half-day workshop for non-clinical practice staff provides an introduction to the importance and benefits of effective coding.

What is coding?

Historical perspective / Hierarchy and Structure / Current Usage

Why we need to use them appropriately.

Adding information to the Patient Record

How to locate the perfect code / Dating codes/ Using episodicity / Promoting to Problems / Use of Resolved and Exception Codes

How can we improve our data quality?

Common Codes and Abbreviations / Mistakes and how to correct them / Legal Considerations

Trainer: Cathie Shipton, Associate Trainer, Syder and Young Ltd.

Note Summarising in Primary Care

£132 (inc VAT) per person.

Date: Wednesday 12th February 2025

(9.30am to 4.00pm)
Park View Health Partnership, Burgess Hill, West Sussex

This one-day course is aimed at administrative staff in primary care responsible for summarising medical records. By the end of the course delegates will understand:

  • the process of summarising paper and pre-existing computerised records

  • how to analyse the medical record and detail significant past medical history including the progress of chronic disease

  • how to scrutinise the medical record for errors of fact, misfiled data, omissions and irrelevant or out-of-date information

  • coding hierarchy and disease registers

  • how to code information onto computer to build a meaningful list of significant problems for each patient

  • the importance of including appropriate numerical data and QoF-relevant data to aid clinicians and add value to practice

Trainer: Cathie Shipton, Associate Trainer, Syder and Young Ltd.

Managing Your Own Personal Development

- a workshop for people planning to progress their careers in practice management

£132 (inc VAT) per person.

Date: Thursday 13th February 2025

(9.30am to 4.00pm)
Arundel Museum, West Sussex

Participants will:

  • Identify your career aspirations

  • Explore how you can make yourself more effective in your current role

  • Formulate objectives for your personal and professional development

  • Identify development opportunities

  • Identify your personal learning styles and other preferences

  • Develop a plan for you to implement, monitor and update over a timescale you can set for yourself



Trainer: Pauline Young, Director, Syder and Young Ltd.

Practical Medical Terminology Part 1

£132 (inc VAT) per person.

Date: Friday 28th February 2025

(9.30am to 4.00pm)
Arundel Museum, West Sussex

  • Introduction to medical terminology (prefixes, roots, suffixes, structure of medical words)

  • Digestive System

  • Cardiovascular System

  • Respiratory System

  • Abbreviations

Trainer: Helen Barnaby, Associate Trainer, Syder and Young Ltd.

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Please click here for a brief overview of the content of the workshops we currently offer for Practice Staff, or here for Practice Management.

If you would like us to organise any of these as open access workshop, please get in touch at office@syderandyoung.co.uk

Alternatively, we also deliver in-house training for practice teams or perhaps your PCN or Training Hub may wish to commission a workshop for the practices in your area.

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