Best buys for available funds
It’s that time of year when pots of money become available and Practices/PCNs are thinking about what to spend them on. They are often capital not revenue and one of the questions that often comes up is how do you get long lasting value from one of these pots of money?
Well - equipment is an easy answer. Buying some new kit that you may use every day for years can be a good use of capital. I’d suggest that education is also worth spending money on.
Last year - I bought our every practice in my PCN a subscription to the iLearn Statutory and Mandatory training package from Agilio - I’m a great believer in bulk buy - and we got a good price. It also standardised and harmonised the training across the PCN and although other providers are available I really liked the fact it linked from GPTeamNet which my practices use and it was seamless.
Indeed they have more than 500 courses in their wider clinical selection - which I’ve just been looking at and am thinking of purchasing this year.
They also have some excellent recorded webinars and updates and these cover a wide range of topics and are bang up to date - it’s comforting that these guys write the CKS clinical guidance and its really convenient that they link to the Clarity Toolkit that most of my local GPs use as there preferred option.