Hi to all GP's / GP specialists
Are you using the web based NHS appraisal toolkit ? It seems really useful as a template to hold current info and add to as the year goes by. One question I had was about its security - I presume info such as prescribing stats is safe, but has anyone got any reservations about this ?
thanks
gill

I started to use this toolkit, but my wife was somehow roped into training to be an appraiser recently. In the course of the training she was told that Yorkshire may soon adopt a proforma appraisal that differs from that of the NHS Toolkit, and that there was no guarantee that it would transfer across easily. Seems stupid to me, but while there is so much uncertainty about the form in which appraisals and reaccreditation will take place, I would hold fire before getting too involved with it.

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HI Gill and Jim,
I've used the toolkit for several years and like it. I've no idea about security but no-one has ever told me they've read it (apart from my appraiser) - and they'd be soon bored witless if they tried.
If Yorkshire try to implement a different form, they'd better have a good reason....

thanks Sally - I hope it doesn't change either - it seems very good to me. I am happy to use it, just wondered to what extent people enter reflective journal information and figures for our organisation eg tops results, ndtms figures. Actually I am sure I can keep my own archive of such stuff on a memory stick and present it as and when revalidation comes in.
For those who haven't seen the NHS appraisal kit you can find on a search very quickly
Gill
PS " plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose " to quote somebody French .....

I have just found myself in the position of using the standard NHS toolkit for GP appraisals and the RCGP substance misuse toolkit for GPwSI appraisals. I was trained on the former, so this may be a factor, but I certainly prefer it, the RCGP one breaks all the domains up and I get lost! So far, none of my GPs have been technophillic enough to actually send it to me electronically - they print it off and post it! I also had appraisal training in Bradford recently (wonder if I was in same cohort as your wife Jim?) and as far as I remember it was just Bradford that was different rather than whole of Yorks, and it was just an extra column for tasks on the form 4 that you'd notice (they also had a note-taking 'navigational aid', but that's not a public document)

I got it slightly wrong - sorry! Yes,it was just Bradford, not Yorkshire, that was going to go its own way somewhat, but I hear that now they have agreed to use the standard NHS toolkit. Which seems to make sense.