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Overall scope and plan
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Members of the TAPS team will provide training sessions for all participating GPs. For control practices, this will be a 1 h session. For intervention practices, this will be about 2 h. Optionally, this can be supplemented by one “catch up” session with individual GPs at their request or in response to problems identified by the study team.
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Training for control practices will be by one team member. Ideally, two trainers will facilitate the more complex sessions for intervention practices.
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Training approach
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Training is for individual practices and based on all GPs attending and working as a small group with the Keele GP facilitators. There are some knowledge and skills components to be covered and the entire sessions should be interactive and collaborative
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Requirements for delivering the training
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• Protected time for all GPs to attend
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• Co-ordination with practice manager
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• Training room suitable for small group learning
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• Computer, linked to clinical system, with display visible to the group
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• TAPS templates installed and tested
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Key issues to address for intervention practices
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• Tool complements normal clinical practice and does not replace it
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• It is a prognostic tool to aid management, not a diagnostic tool
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• A key step in integrating the tool into the consultation – is the need to enter a provisional Read code during the consultation to trigger the template
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• Arrangements for physiotherapy referral and liaison
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Support Materials
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• Slide sets for sessions 1 and 2 and single session for controls
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• Patient vignettes from TAPS
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• Laminated copy of STarT MSK tool and matched treatment options
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• Plan and record for training sessions to complete at each practice
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• Laminated prompt sheets for both intervention and control practices
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