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NatPaCT
HQS
has been involved as editorial consultants in a major revision
of the competency Framework for PCTs, developed by the National
Primary and Care Trust Development team (NatPaCT), part of
the Modernisation Agency. The competency framework is a self-assessment
and reference tool, which brings together key requirements
for PCTs covering nine domains:
·
Organisational Maturity
· Primary Care
· Service Provision
· Commissioning
· Partnership
· Public Health
· Community, Public and Patient Involvement
· Clinical Quality
· Workforce
The
brief to HQS was to up-date the references and provide simple,
clear competency statements. There was also a lot of new material,
including extended competencies for the new GMS contract for
general practice, pharmacy, optometry, dentistry, nursing,
allied health professionals, and reforming emergency care.
To
help PCTs use the framework and link it to other 'must do'
initiatives, all of the relevant competency statements have
been cross-referenced. The framework indicates where statements
match with CHI Clinical Governance review themes, Improving
Working Lives requirements, Investors in People and selected
Controls Assurance standards. It includes a glossary of acronyms
and a register of changes to allow users to compare self-assessments
against the previous version.
New
material was e-mailed on an almost daily basis from the different
issues groups set up by NatPaCT. The groups all included representatives
from PCTs, SHAs, partner organisations and the Department
of Health. The challenge from an editor's point of view was
that each group had decided on an individual approach, with
a particular emphasis and format for their contributions,
all of which had to be melded together to form a consistent
style throughout the competency framework.
The
framework is available as an online database that allows users
to generate and print customised workbooks giving top level
overview and/or detailed core competencies by domain, or theme,
supported where available by supplementary material. Users
are able to select scoring systems or action point listings.
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