17 December 2019
Please note that the SAGE & THYME office will close for Christmas on the afternoon of Friday 20th December 2019 and will re-open on Monday 6th January 2020.
We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!
The SAGE & THYME Team
14 October 2019
We are pleased to announce that we have created an audio description of the Cleveland Clinic empathy film (that is shown in the SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop) for visually impaired people.
3 October 2019
The final programme for the annual SAGE & THYME (S&T) Study Day has been announced and can be downloaded.
21 August 2019
Skills for Health is a not-for-profit organisation that provides education and training for the healthcare workforce, to provide staff with the skills they need to improve patient care.
They have a number of resources available to the NHS and to independent and voluntary organisations.
The SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop is listed on the Communication Resource Hub as communication training that can help staff.
5 August 2019
We have now released the programme for the annual Study Day for SAGE & THYME facilitators and organisers, taking place on Wednesday 27 November 2019 at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.
11 July 2019
A case study about how James Paget University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has relaunched SAGE & THYME training is now available.
19 June 2019
We have a new case study! Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been running SAGE & THYME training for 2 years.
10 June 2019
Clinical research is needed to develop new treatments and to gain knowledge that will improve patient care. This sometimes requires researchers to approach patients who may have received some upsetting news, or who are worried about their condition or their future, about participating in research.
We are sometimes asked if the SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop teaches skills that can support researchers in talking with patients who have concerns, and the answer is yes!
3 April 2019
End of life care at Wythenshawe Hospital (part of Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust) has been rated as 'outstanding' in caring in a recent CQC report (19 March 2019).
4 February 2019
The Shelford Group is a collaboration between ten of the largest teaching and research NHS Trusts in England (including Trusts in Cambridge, Oxford, London, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sheffield and Manchester).
The Group was formed in 2011 and aims to shares learning between members and initiate joint projects for large-scale improvement in the NHS. Many NHS Trusts use data from the leading Shelford organisations to benchmark their own performance.
Nine of the NHS Trusts within the Group run the SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop - either under their own licence, or under a network licence held by another organisation.
This demonstrates how SAGE & THYME training is now the most established foundation level communication skills training programme for NHS staff.
7 January 2019
For the start of 2019, the SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop has been revised and updated, following consultation with a number of SAGE & THYME facilitators.
The changes include:
Organisations running the workshop now have 3 months (until the end of March 2019) to transition over to using the new presentation in all the workshops they run.
The revised presentation (which includes new 'stick' men) explains each step of SAGE & THYME more clearly and a number of SAGE & THYME facilitators have contacted us about how much they like it!
Read the full news story here.
29 October 2018
Doctors and other healthcare professionals find it hard to talk about dying, states a new report from the Royal College of Physicians, 'Talking about dying: How to begin honest conversations about what lies ahead'.
We run a 3.5 hour workshop called 'SAGE & THYME ACP', which teaches health and social care professionals how to open a conversation about advance care planning and to deal with the patient's concerns as they arise.
To organise a SAGE & THYME ACP workshop in your area, please contact us.
