ADP Pilot Project
Phase One
The ADP (Advanced Development Programme for Professionals) aims to enhance clinicians’ communication skills to enable them to work in partnership with cancer survivors to support and motivate self-management.
In the advanced development programme, healthcare professionals take part in three workshops over three days, facilitated by one professional trainer and one co-trainer who is a breast cancer survivor. ‘Actors’ are used to provide participants with an opportunity for practice and feedback on their communication skills.
Patient Partnership in Care Questionnaires (PPiC), where patients are asked to provide feedback post-consultation about the doctor they have just seen, are completed before and after the course. The feedback informs clinicians of where their strengths are and where improvements are needed, so that these can be incorporated into the workshops.
This course was piloted in Birmingham and Hillingdon during 2010.
Phase Two
One of the key issues in the delivery of this course in phase one was the fact that many participants had previously undertaken the NHS Connected Programme ‘Advanced Cancer Communications Course’, and some of the course content overlapped.
Further learning from the phase one pilots has resulted in development of a one day version of the ADP (called ‘Patient Partnership in Care’) which builds upon the core communications skills developed in the Connected programme, and directly follows attendance at the Connected programme (at around four-six months later). The NCSI are in partnership with the NHS Connected programme, with a plan to deliver and evaluate two one-day pilot courses for a total of 20 participants who will have previously attended a Connected programme. These will be delivered in the Pan Birmingham network area in the spring of 2011.
The course aims to enable cancer clinicians to:
- Support patients in adopting healthy lifestyle change e.g. weight management, smoking, physical activity, diet – important in the secondary prevention of cancer
- Use their consultation with patients to support self management
- Understand the patient’s experience of self management
For further information please contact Anna Lynall.
Last updated on March 17, 2011