Hello from the Chair of LOOP
I would like to say thank you for all those that took the time to complete the feedback survey following the LOOP conference in May. The feedback was very positive and we are using the suggestions from the feedback to shape next year’s conference. There was a definite theme emerging from the suggestions including job planning, workforce, extended roles/advanced practice, cost improvement projects and bench-marking of services. Therefore I would like to hear from any Heads/Deputies/Leaders to contact me with any examples of these topics and agree to share these at next year’s LOOP conference. It would be beneficial to us all to see real examples of this in practice in all countries. Although there are variations in how services are funded in the different nations the main issues we face are the same no matter what country we work in. Please look out for further information regarding the conference soon.
The LOOP steering committee are due to reconvene after the summer and start work on some other work streams and update the website with further resources. We are aiming to start work on job planning and the BIOS work force survey which we require as we haven’t had one for some time now. I would appreciate all Heads and Leads involvement in this when it comes out to you.
Please do get in touch with me if you have any recommendations for work streams that you would like to see LOOP undertake.
Thanks
Sonia MacDiarmid
