De-escalation Training (Patient Complaints and Difficult Situations)

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De-escalation Training (Patient Complaints and Difficult Situations)

Event Summary

This session will provide front of house staff the skills and confidence to manage potential conflict with patients, de-escalate situations and reflect on their own wellbeing and resilience.

Tuesday, 11 May 2027
09:30 - 11:30
Zoom Online Event

Main Contact

Lead Team
02380 253874
This training course is accessible for wheelchair users.
If you have any communication or mobility needs that the event organisers need to be aware of please contact them in advance of the course to let them know.

Event Speakers & Trainers

Mrs Robyn Clark
Mrs Robyn Clark
Speaker/Trainer
ZOOM ONLINE EVENT To participate you will need to install Zoom on your device, ensure it has a microphone, speaker, and camera. Please Note: Some trainers will no longer allow you to stay on the call if you do not have your camera operating without good reason. If this is the case you will not be reimbursed.

Log into Zoom 09:15 session runs 09:30 to 11:30 

Introduction

This session has been developed for any member of the general practice team who works in a patient-facing role.

Aims

To give front of house staff the skills and confidence to manage potential conflict with patients, de-escalate situations and reflect on their own wellbeing and resilience. The session will be led by a facilitator with first-hand experience of managing conflict in general practice.

Objectives

  • Understand the causes of potential conflict 
  • Utilise the tools and skills we have to reduce conflict
  • Use debriefing as a mechanism to maintain staff resilience and wellbeing
  • Discuss moral distress and how to cope

Content

  • Assumptions
  • Kindness
  • Recognising and reducing conflict
  • Communication tools
  • De-escalation techniques
  • De-briefing
  • Recognising and dealing with moral distress

Previous Delegate Feedback

"It was great to learn different techniques around de-escalation, especially listening to the course leader who has an HR background, very informative".

This event is NOT being recorded

Event Speakers & Trainers

Mrs Robyn Clark
Mrs Robyn Clark

Robyn became a Practice Manager in 2017 and has also acted as lead manager for her primary care network. She is also a content writer for Practice Index, developing e-learning modules in HR and leading monthly HR clinics for managers. 
In 2020, along with three other Practice Managers, she formed the Institute of General Practice Management – the professional body for all managers working in general practice. She also takes on the role of Director of Communications for the organisation, drafting statements, responses and letters to government and national bodies on behalf of members. She also created the IGPM Accreditation Framework – the process by which managers working in general practice can be formally recognised as professional members of the IGPM.  As a registered member of the CIPD, she continues her passion for HR issues, employee engagement and mentoring.

Price List 

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Price (Inc VAT)

All GPs and members of staff working within GP practices in Wessex LMCs’ catchment area

This option is for everyone working in a GP practice in Wessex LMC's catchment area, that does not fit into one of the other options on offer.

£125.00

Non Members

This is the cost if you are not working in a practice in the Wessex LMCs' catchment area. £250.00

Waiting List

Please be advised there are spaces available on this course unless it states otherwise. If a course is full you will be given the option to book on the waiting list. If you are on the waiting list and a place becomes available, you will be notified automatically via email, you do NOT need to contact Wessex LMCs. 

Cancellations

Please note cancellations two weeks prior to the event will not be refundable, however you are very welcome to substitute another delegate to attend the course to prevent your practice missing out on the training. Any admissible cancellations will incur an administration fee of £15 if the event fee is £100 or over and £10 if the event fee is £99 or under.

Attendance Details

In certain circumstances, we will share details of attendance or non-attendance with the person who booked and/or funded this course for the delegate. If you have any objection to your attendance status being shared, please can you contact Louise Greenwood (Wessex LMCs Director of Education & Training) at least 48 hours before the start of the training at louise.greenwood@wessexlmcs.org.uk

Sponsorship

This event may be sponsored so companies have the opportunity to promote their product(s) at the start of the meeting. No sponsors have been involved in the selection of speakers, agenda items, or any other matters relating to this training. Your name and practice will be shared with the sponsor representative, but not your email address.

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