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July 2015 - Issue 2

Royal Marsden Manualof Clinical Nursing

Procedures features

SAGE & THYME now features in the latest (ninth) edition of The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures, edited by Lisa Dougherty and Sara Lister (who is a SAGE & THYME facilitator).

It is also part of the latest student edition of the Manual with an associated quiz. The section describes the model, the evidence behind it and the justification for each step. The Manual is recognised nationally as the definitive guide to clinical nursing skills.This recognition will make it easier for nurses and their managers to justify communications skills training using SAGE & THYME (see below also ‘The Code’ and the CQC inpatients surveys). For more information on the Manual visit:http://www.royalmarsdenmanual.com/productinfo/

‘Listen to people and respond to their concerns': SAGE & THYME training fits perfectly with the new 'Code' for Nurses and Midwives

2015 Training Update and ConferenceThe date for this year's conference has been set for Tuesday 24 November 2015 (9:30-16:15). It is being held at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester, as in previous years, but this year's programme will focus more on providing a training update to existing SAGE & THYME facilitators, in addition to having a conference format in the morning.The draft programme includes: SAGE & THYME - what we didn't know

12 months ago! Update on the courses run by UHSM! Presentations from organisations

running the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop

! Training consolidation on running the small group work

! Delegate discussionThis year we are offering an early-bird

discounted price of £60 per person if you register before 30 September 2015. The full price for bookings made from 1 October 2015 will be £80. Please contact the SAGE & THYME office for a booking form.

You will already be aware of the launch of 'The Code: professional standards of practice and behaviour for nurses and midwives' on 31 March 2015. The code will be central to the upcoming revalidation process for nurses and midwives. Maintaining a fitness to practice will require proof of professional development and reflection on the professional standards of practice as set out in the Code. The second and third of these standards relate directly to the skills taught in continued on next page

Any other business...Use of the SAGE & THYME logo

Anticipated price increase

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There are many instances where you may wish to use the SAGE & THYME logo – on your intranet to advertise your workshops, or on a poster presenting your experience of running the workshops at a local/national conference.

UHSM is happy for you to use the logo and will provide a high-resolution image of it, as long as the text you wish to use is shared with UHSM first. The logo should not be used without UHSM's permission.

It's also worth noting that the official way of writing 'SAGE & THYME' is in capitals and with an ampersand ('&') as that's how the UK trade mark is registered.

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The managerial and administrative work which underpins effective

training is substantial. The SAGE & THYME office has recently

purchased AccessPlanIt's training management system, with the aim of

automating routine tasks (such as e-mailing delegates booked on

courses), improving record keeping, and making communication with

all SAGE & THYME facilitators and key contacts easier.

We will be importing our data into the new system over the coming

weeks and will be sending future e-mails to everyone via the system.

We may also be in contact with everyone to ensure that are records

are up-to-date.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was successful in gaining 3 CPD

credits for the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop and the

SAGE & THYME ACP workshop as an 'external event', provided by

UHSM on a number of occasions for Trust staff. The credits were

provided by the Federation of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the

United Kingdom – see

. The SAGE & THYME office has

received little demand for CPD points to date, but please let us know if

demand for this grows.

https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/cpd/manage-your-

cpd/cpd-approval-live-events

SAGE & THYME

The prices for the licence and packs have not increased since they were launched in 2010. We would therefore like to give you advanced warning that the prices for the licence, packs and UHSM foundation level and SATFAC delegate fees, will be increasing from 1 April 2016 –

the details will be provided as soon as they are available and also placed on our web site: http://www.sageandthymetraining.org.uk/prices

Getting CPD points for external workshops

‘Listen to people

...cont.

the SAGE & THYME workshop:

! Listen to people and respond to their preferences and concerns' (standard 2)

! 'Make sure that people's physical, social and psychological needs are assessed and responded to' (standard 3).

We anticipate that individual nurses and midwives (and their employers) will want proof of continuous investment in these foundation level skills. SAGE & THYME workshops are taught across the UK by accredited and licensed trainers. Three research papers and multiple case reports are testament to the positive impact of SAGE & THYME workshops. It may be helpful to mention how the SAGE & THYME foundation level training can help nurses and midwives to meet the Code's standards, when advertising the workshop.

Patient stories on web site

Those of you who attended the 'patient stories' session at last year's conference will know that we filmed clinicians talking about their experiences of using SAGE & THYME when speaking to patients. Our thanks go to the following people for giving their consent to having the films available on our web site: Helen Bennett, Nigel Wainwright, Helen Bradley, Jennifer Hedingham, Victoria Peplow and Felicity Goodey.To view the films visit:

(note that they can take about 10 seconds to play – we are working on making this quicker).The web site also includes the update given by Mike Connolly at the conference:

http://www.sageandthymetraining.org.uk/testimonials

http://www.sageandthymetraining.org.uk/film/update-november-2014

New training videos

Tips for trainers on group work

New scenarios (for use in both the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop and the ACP workshop) are being filmed over the summer and should be available in the autumn for licensed facilitators to use when running the workshops.

The films will be placed on the web site in the 'Trainer area' (that SAGE & THYME facilitators and key contacts have access to) and will also be available on DVD.

Further details will be provided to facilitators when the films are available.

Getting the group work right, in the SAGE & THYME This can be downloaded from the 'facilitator guidance' foundation level workshop, can improve the page in the 'trainer area' of the web site (see download on effectiveness of your teaching. right hand side of page). If you have forgotten your The SATFAC trainers have therefore produced tips username or password, please contact the SAGE & on how to run each of the three group work sessions. THYME office for assistance.

CQC inpatient surveys ask directly aboutemotional support

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has the results received “enough emotional support from of an inpatient survey carried out in 2013 on its hospital staff, if needed”. This data may be web site (see: helpful as you campaign locally to establish or

maintain SAGE & THYME foundation level ). The workshops in your organisation. Is the

results are available on a national and local NHS organisation training its workforce how to listen Trust basis, and at a Trust level, you can see how and respond to the emotions of the patients? Is your data compares with other Trusts. that training built upon published evidence? Has One of the questions asked in the survey under the training itself been independently evaluated? 'care and treatment' was whether the patients Can the training teach 30 staff in just 3 hours?

http://www.cqc.org.uk/public/reports-surveys-and-reviews/surveys/inpatient-survey-2013

New online toolkit for Advance Care Planning

The Macmillan Cancer Support Learning Zone has Care Planning Conversations; The Legal Framework a new toolkit available relating to advance care of Advance Care Planning; Advance Care Planning planning. It is free to use and anyone can access it Outcomes; and Other Ways to Plan Ahead.by creating an account. Two of our SATFAC trainers, Elaine Bramhall and The toolkit is comprehensive, in-depth, and has a Sheona Ramsbottom, have been involved in the variety of information sources including some content and also appear in some of the films.short films. It covers the process benefits and

To access the resource, visit: barriers of Advance Care Planning; Advance and Anticipatory Care planning in Scotland; Advance http://learnzone.org.uk/courses/course.php?id=238

Established and licensed trainers of SAGE & THYME took a day in May to refresh their training skills and share their experiences of teaching SAGE & THYME. “I wasn't really sure I needed to refresh the way I facilitate SAGE & THYME workshops...”, said one of the nine trainers at Reflect and Refresh, “...but I'm very glad I have. I've learned so much from others trainers and I have new energy for it.”

We plan to run R&R next in Manchester and could travel elsewhere. Please let us know if you have staff who would like to attend:

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Telephone - 0161 291 4210.sageandthyme@uhsm.nhs.uk

New workshop piloted in Chichester: ‘Reflect andRefresh’ (R&R)

SAGE & THYME trainers step up to teach SAGE & THYMEfor Advance Care Planning and end of Life ConversationsOur second ACP SATFAC course, designed to teach existing SAGE & THYME foundation level facilitators how to run the SAGE & THYME ACP workshop, was also run in Chichester in May. This 3 hours and 30 minutes workshop is for senior health and social care staff who are likely to have such conversations with patients. It is taught by the SAGE & THYME core team, by a cohort of trainers in Northern Ireland and now by a new cohort around Chichester. “A Beautiful Day” by Micky Zlimen is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0