Travel Health Update
Wessex Local Medical Committees event
Wednesday 28 June 2023 at Zoom
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This is an all day event.
Times: 09:30 - 16:30
Speakers
Ms Jo Lowry
Log into Zoom 09:15 session runs 09:30 to 16:30
To participate you will need a device capable of running Zoom, that also has a microphone and speaker, a camera is beneficial but not essential.
Introduction
This is a 1-day course for all practice nurses looking for an update in this area of general practice, it is NOT appropriate for those who are new to this field of healthcare. Health is constantly changing and disease outbreaks do happen, it is vital, therefore, that healthcare professionals who provide a travel health service feel equipped to be able to offer the best advice to travellers, as well as being able to locate for themselves, and signpost travellers to the latest guidelines.
Please note: For Nurses who are new to this field of healthcare, we have Introduction to Travel Health sessions as follows.
Please click on the links for more detail and to book a place
Aims
We will be looking at:
- The role of the nurse in travel health
- Resource signposting
- Risk Assessment
- International Health Regulations
- Travel vaccinations
- Malaria
- Travellers’ diarrhoea
- Yellow Fever
Objectives
Learners will be equipped to be able to offer the best advice to travellers, as well as being able to signpost themselves and travellers to the latest guidelines.
The RCN have published 2018 updated guidance on “the current guidelines and standard of care of travellers”. Access to the RCN web page and their document, “Competencies: Travel health nursing: career and competence development” can be found on the following link: https://www.rcn.org.uk/professional-development/publications/pdf-006506
Trainer
Joanna Lowry RN DTN BSc Hons MFTM RCPS (Glas)
Joanna Lowry is an experienced Travel Health Nurse Specialist who has travelled throughout Northern Africa, South East Asia, Australasia and Europe. She has a Diploma in Tropical Nursing from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a Certificate in Travel Medicine. Joanna worked overseas for The Travel Doctor (TMVC) in New Zealand and also travel clinics in London, before setting up and managing Winchester Travel Health LLP until 2016.
Having previously been an Associate Trainer for the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), Joanna enjoys how quickly evidence based practice can adapt in Travel Health and trying to ensure these changes are easily implemented in care.
Joanna is passionate about health education and particularly supporting nurses who are new to immunisation and travel health. Since the roll out of the National immunisation programme against Covid-19, Joanna has worked as a Clinical Lead in a Mass Vaccination Centre.
Please note this session will NOT be recorded
Subsidised Booking Options
Wessex LMCs hold a number of funds for different organisations, specifically for training purposes. By using these funds, many of our 'members' are able to access training without direct recourse to Practice Funds. It is important that you select the appropriate funding option in the booking process, so that we can assign your booking to the correct funding stream, and here is some guidance to help you decide.
All GPs and Members of Staff working within GP Practices in the Wessex LMCs' catchment area
Please use this option if you are working in a Practice in the Wessex LMC catchment area and do not fit into one of the other options on offer. This option may, or may not, have a cost attached.
BaNES Staff
Bath & North East Somerset (BaNES) Practices have given Wessex LMCs some of their training budget, to be used for their staff (not GPs) only. To access this funding you must be working in a Practice in Bath or North East Somerset and not be a GP.
BSW Staff - Clinical
We are delighted that, thanks in part to the BSW (BaNES, Swindon & Wiltshire) Training Hub, and part the NHSE Investment in Continual Professional Development, certain eligible roles such as Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, working in Swindon and Wiltshire Practices, are able to attend this course fully funded. Please see the full list of Included and Excluded staff in the table below. Please do not use this option if: 1) You are in a role 'Excluded from the Scheme' (see table below) 2) You are a GP. 3) You work in any role, except GP, in Bath or North East Somerset; please use the 'BaNES Staff' option above instead.
You can see more information about the scheme by clicking on this link: BSW Eligible Staff @ August 2022
Hampshire and Isle of Wight - AHPs & Nurses
We are delighted that NHS South East have agreed to fund this course for all AHPs & members of the Nursing Team working in Practices in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. To access this funding you must be an AHP or member of the Nursing Team working in a Practice in Hampshire (excluding North East Hants) or the Isle of Wight.
Non Members
Please use this option if you are not working in a Practice in the Wessex LMCs catchment area.
NB: Unfortunately, some of your colleagues have previously booked places and not attended, preventing others from doing so. It must be stressed that the above options are not ‘FREE’ they are funded from NHS monies, all of which must be accounted for. If, therefore, you select one of these subsidised options, and do not attend, or fail to cancel more than 2 weeks in advance, you will be charged the full member delegate fee. To cancel your booking please email: Lead@wessexlmcs.org.uk at least 14 days before the event date.
Location details
Zoom
Is the training accessible to wheelchairs? Yes
Main contact
Name: Wessex LMCs LEaD Team
Email: lead@wessexlmcs.org.uk
Phone: 02380 253874
If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.
This event is being supported by the following companies:
Chiesi
