This week we celebrate the wonderful multi professional diversity of Advanced Practice at CHFT. Advanced Practitioners (APs) continue to provide high-level clinical and professional healthcare delivery in diverse healthcare settings to our patients and their families. 

Advanced Practitioner Corporate Lead, Deb Lau, said: "Our AP team continues to grow with a new trainee post in stroke and four new AP graduates from Oncology, Orthopaedics and Cardiology. Congratulations to them for all their hard work obtaining their Master's. 

"Our graduates continue to showcase CHFT internationally with visits to Ghana, Boston and Vancouver. We also support annual visits for trainee Advanced Practitioners from Norway here at CHFT, who are currently developing their Advanced Practice strategy."

"Recent Advanced Practice Projects have included the Medical SDEC (MSDEC) and Acute Medicine Advanced Practice team developing a new service improvement group. AP and Chair of the group, Gabrielle Shaw, said: "The Acute Medicine multidisciplinary team are developing strategies to improve referrals and communications between GP's and MSDEC." 

Advanced Practice within acute medicine also means involvement in research projects including the RECOVERY, ASPECT and Tilia trials currently running at CHFT.

Frailty Advanced Practice projects include the 'Silver Phone' project led by APs offering advice and guidance for Yorkshire Ambulance Service, GP and community teams. Helping to reduce hospital conveyance and admissions with clinical assessments at home through the UCR team . 

Other frailty projects include the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve documentation and patient communication. The team are also looking at how AI can help collect and interpret data to help move the service forward into the future. Including supporting a QI project on Ward 3 looking at improving nutritional assessments and management for frail, older people. 

The new CHFT learning and development platform LaDR includes a new Advanced Practice portfolio launched in June and was recently presented at the Pan London Conference, showcasing digital collaborations for Advanced Practice alongside Airedale, Bradford and the team at LaDR. 

If you would like to get involved in AP Week, there are a few events and webinars taking place throughout the week. Click the link, or see the schedule below for more information.