We recently welcomed trainee Advanced Practitioner, Sinan Supur, from Norway who came to spend a week with our teams as part of an ongoing project with The University of Huddersfield. The aim of the visit was for Sinan to see how advanced practice supports secondary care in the UK and how this can potentially be developed in Norway.

Sinan spent time with our Frailty team which included working alongside our Urgent Community Response colleagues and also with our Minor Injuries Practitioner, Darren Jones. In particular, Sinan wanted to look at the ways of working within urgent and emergency care and what the pathways of care in those areas looks like. His feedback for this area was: "I was impressed by the level of autonomy the Advanced Practitioners have and how they fit into the multi-disciplinary team.

"Overall it has truly been a great experience. Particularly working with Jo Banks in the UCR team and spending time with frailty. Both have shown me how advanced practice can be used to autonomously care for patients and ensure they are treated holistically within the whole clinical team."

Corporate Lead Advanced Practitioner, Deb Lau, said: "Working with international students and practitioners allows us to share ways of working, pathways of care and generate ideas that can be used to develop practice which benefits both CHFT and our patients. 

"For Sinan, the level of autonomy and care given by our practitioners shone through and is something he has taken back to Norway. They are planning a project, particularly to develop frailty services within their own hospital care model, which is different to ours in the UK. We are hoping to arrange a visit to Norway to support their Advanced Practitioner development and to share ideas for the future."