Ending the consultation
4. Ending the consultation
It is important that the patient is happy with the advice given and understands what to do subsequently. The prescriber should have agreed a follow-up plan and you can check with the patient that they know what this is.
If this is unclear, but the patient is happy to continue with the medication, you can suggest a reasonable interval until they return for assessment (e.g. three months). It is good practice to formally check that the patient agrees and is comfortable with the ‘first prescription’ consultations and is given the opportunity to ask questions or discuss other issues.
CPD evidence template for revalidation
GPhC Q1: What are you planning to learn?
Tip: The GPhC expects this section of the revalidation submission to include three things –
a learning objective, why this learning is relevant to your role, and how this learning will benefit the people who use your services.
Learning objective: e.g. To refresh my knowledge about medicines prescribed for incontinence in females and get some tips about doing a consultation when one of these is prescribed for the first time for one of my patients.
Why this learning is relevant to my role: (For reader to add)
How it will benefit the people who use my services: (For reader to add)
GPhC Q2: How are you planning to learn it?
Tip: This section is for the learning activities that you are going to do. Completing this module is one learning activity but make sure you include others that show how you will be able to apply your learning.
- What will you and your team do to support patients who are prescribed a medicine for incontinence?
- How will you make sure that members of your team know their role in your plan?
- What resources will you use? (Tip: Don’t forget to consider information that is written for patients – e.g. Age UK website section on incontinence)
GPhC Q3: Give an example of how this learning has benefitted the people using your services
Tip: Include statements about how you envisage your team and/or your customers and/or local general practices will benefit from your learning. Also, give an example of how someone actually benefitted.
- e.g. This learning will benefit my team by...
- e.g. An example of a customer/patient who benefitted from my learning is…