GP+Small+Groups

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= Small Groups =

We are very keen that GPs (new and established) form small groups to support each other, learn together and let off steam.

If you’re already doing this, we’d like to hear from you. We would like to help facilitate things for you to help recruit new members, provide ideas and offer support. Even if you're not looking for new members and are already established as a group, we'd like to know what's up and running in the area. Please let us know about your group by emailing us

__**Funding:**__ [|WGPET] will support it's members with an organiser’s fee of £40 per group and may be able to help with funding for speakers and venues (but not catering). Please contact Ron Travis at WGPET or your local GP Tutor as above.

__**Resources to support the running of small groups:**__ Under development

Groups:

 * === Winchester GP Educational Evenings (WGEE) ===
 * Open to all GPs who are members of the WGPET (current group is predominantly salaried and locum GPs)
 * Evening educational meetings (usually monthly on a Monday or Tuesday)
 * Meetings held at Sarum Road Hospital in Winchester or in one of our member’s homes in the Winchester area (new hosts welcomed)
 * For further information please email: Heather Scott
 * ===Winchester Young GPs Group===
 * Informal group meeting at various venues
 * Usually Rep sponsored (fulfilling ABPI code requirements)
 * Contact Ruth Dyson for further information and details of upcoming meeting
 * ===**Winchester - "Table 99"**===
 * We are a brand new group called Table 99 and have 8 members so far.
 * We meet monthly on a Monday evening from 8 till 10pm in the teepee at the Running Horse pub in Littleton
 * We take turns to lead a discussion or make a presentation for about an hour on any topic of our choosing relevant to general practice and then have time for discussion of any other issues such as difficulties at work, significant events, complaints, local primary care changes, medical politics.
 * The idea is to offer a mutually supportive and confidential space for learning and reflection.
 * Anyone who is interested in joining please email Emma Reinhold at e.reinhold@doctors.org.uk
 * ===Basingstoke Primary Care Education Group===
 * Education group mainly for non-principals but including partners, salaried, locums and retainees.
 * 9 Meetings a year with a mix of speakers and discussion
 * Free to attend but please support the venue when you attend - [|The Vine, Hannington, Tadley]
 * **Next meeting:** See Calendar
 * Please email Clare Hunter or visit her [|website] for more information
 * ===Salisbury Non-Principals Group===
 * Education group mainly for non-principals in Salisbury Area
 * Please email Dr Alison Corke for more information.

Newly Qualified GP Groups

 * New scheme facilitated by Mid Wessex GP Tutors for ST3s finishing training, to run annually for 1 year.
 * **Basingstoke**: Contact Helen O'Reilly
 * **Salisbury**: Contact Ellen Neale
 * **Winchester**: Contact Heidi Penrose
 * Informal group meeting at the Cottage, University of Winchester
 * Not Rep sponsored but we have a cake rota!

PBSGL (Practice-Based Small Group Learning)

 * PBSGL is a form of small-group CPD. It involves a group of 5 -12 GPs meeting every month or every other month and discussing a topic. The topic can be clinical or non-clinical. The topics are decided by the group at a previous session, based on the modules available on the PBSGL website. The modules are documents of case-based material (from real GP cases); the group works through the cases to learn or consolidate knowledge about the topic. There is a comprehensive section summarising the current best practice and evidence base, along with patient information leaflets that can be copied and given to appropriate patients the group may subsequently see in practice.
 * There are currently a number of groups running in Wessex, and there has been a drive to train up more facilitators (each group needs one), so there will be more groups setting up in the future. There is a cost attached - see the website for details - but this is partially refundable by WGPET (for members) and is also tax-deductible.
 * If you are interested in joining or setting up a group, or being trained as a facilitator, please discuss with your GP Tutor or email Jonathan Rial