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Train The Trainer: COPD - Challenging Perceptions

Wychwood Park Hotel, Crewe

A skills based training course to help develop your group facilitation, chairing and presentation skills with provision of a COPD Toolbox.

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Facilitators

  • Darush Attar-Zadeh
  • Steve Holmes
  • Carol Stonham

This course is a two-day residential course to provide colleagues who are up to speed with COPD care and are wanting to improve their presentation skills and ability to facilitate groups and chair meetings. A chance to share experience and learn new techniques and styles. It will be highly interactive. 

The course includes prepared COPD educational materials for delegates to present in their locality or PCN, practising and fine tuning the skills developed during the course. 

Course Objectives

  • To increase the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes in group facilitation. 
  • To develop skills in facilitating small groups in an experiential manner 
  • To improve confidence in presenting information in different settings
  • To understand appropriate use of “energisers and other strategies to enhance group work”
  • To be able to identify behaviours in a small group setting that disrupt and enhance group performance (and have techniques to try to manage these)
  • To share COPD tools and materials to facilitate learning in the wider community on the benefits of COPD interventions to support and improve quality of life for people with COPD. 
  • Course materials and training includes
    • COPD diagnosis and assessment,
    • non-drug and drug treatment and management of COPD
    • managing exacerbations
    • pulmonary rehabilitation
    • digital technology to support health in COPD
    • holistic care
    • oxygen therapy
    • service development
    • end of life care

Course Programme

Day 1
  • Hopes and Fears, Group Rules, The toolbox
  • Education theory and principles
  • Presentation skills - making an impact
  • Facilitating and chairing a group
Day 2
  • Using ice-breakers
  • COPD Toolkit
  • Challenging Perceptions of COPD
  • Planning the future - sharing the message locally
This programme has been supported by an educational grant from AstraZeneca Ltd. The sponsor has had no input into the course programme or content.
Clinical Area
COPD
Derivation
PCRS Produced / Collaboration

Speakers

  • Darush Attar-zadeh

    photo of Darush Attar-zadehA Clinical Fellow Pharmacist with a keen interest in preventative medicine. Darush has presented at various national and international conferences (including the PCRS, IPCRG, ERS, Clinical Pharmacy Congress). Darush was part of the London Clinical Senate Helping Smokers Quit programme. Darush is a lead for NHS RightBreathe and helps mentor clinicians in 45 PCNs across NW London. In 2019 Darush was awarded PCPA GP Pharmacist runner up. He runs group sessions with patients and clinicians. Darush is the Chair of the PCRS Conference Organising Committee, Vice Chair of the Executive Committee.
    Other roles include:
    Co-Chair Taskforce for Lung Health Medicines Optimisation Working Group
    Co-Chair of the CYP Pharmacy asthma group pan London

    Darush enjoys running and raising money for respiratory and cardiac charities. One of his main missions is to reduce health inequalities caused by tobacco and spends a lot of his time teaching in deprived locations across the UK.

  • Stephen Holmes

    photo of Stephen HolmesSteve Holmes has been a general practice principal since 1989 and continues to provide clinical care to the Shepton Mallet population in Somerset. He is Policy Lead for PCRS and is a previous chair and remains involved in the service development committee (with a background supporting the executive, education and the leadership programme). He is chair of the IPCRG Education sub committee. He was on RCGP council for more than a decade and is chair of the Severn RCGP Faculty. He has been involved in more than 300 published papers and has spoken widely. He is a clinical lead for Integrated Care in Somerset ICB. He enjoys keeping running when the opportunity arises and playing the piano and a variety of guitars badly; along with gardening, DIY and renovation work

  • Carol Stonham

    photo of Carol StonhamFollowing 26 years nursing in general practice Carol now works at Gloucestershire ICB Respiratory Clinical Programme Group and is CYP Asthma Clinical Lead. Carol is also a co-clinical lead of the NHSE Southwest Respiratory Network.
    Carol is past Executive Chair of PCRS – the first non-doctor and first female to take the chair. She is current a trustee of the charity. She is vice chair of the Lung Health Task Force and also co-chairs the Taskforce early and accurate diagnosis group.
    Carol received Queen’s Nurse award in 2007 and in 2016 was awarded an MBE for Services to Nursing and Healthcare.

Challenging Perceptions of COPD

The PCRS Challenging perceptions of COPD campaign seeks to change attitudes to COPD, by shifting the narrative and focusing on what HCPs can do to more effectively support their patients.