4 April 2016
The latest research on the SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshop, conducted by the University of Manchester in collaboration with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, will be presented at the NET2016 conference in Cambridge on 6-8 September 2016.
The research focuses on the barriers and facilitators to implementing a communication skills model in practice and bridging the theory practice gap.
15 February 2016
Mike Connolly will be presenting an abstract at the RCN Education Forum National Conference on Tues 15 March 2016 (International Centre in Telford) on 'teaching foundation level communication skills using ‘SAGE & THYME’ in clinical practice and in the nursing curriculum'.
The presentation will be delivered at 12:30pm (concurrent session 1.3.4) and Joanne Thomas from the team will also be attending, along with Mike, to answer any questions.
If you're attending this conference, please come and see us in our session.
12 January 2015
A review on end of life care services, entitled 'Better Endings', has been published by the National Institue for Health Research (NIHR) Dissemination Centre (Dec 2015).
The review considers how patients at the end of their lives should receive the right care, at the right time and in the right place.
Research has shown that whilst good care of dying patients includes complying with the patient's wishes, an advanced care plan (ACP) is not always completed for each patient. One reason for this is that staff can find it difficult to initiate such discussions.
The SAGE & THYME ACP workshop teaches healthcare professionals how to open a discussion about advance care planning and also manage any concerns that a patient may have, to ensure that their patients receive the right care, at the right time and in the right place.
26 November 2015
The SAGE & THYME programme has been shortlisted for the Bionow Healthcare Project of the Year award.
Mike Connolly will be attending the prestigious Bionow Annual Awards Dinner at The Mere Golf Resort & Spa (in Mere, Cheshire) tonight.
For more information, click here.
14 September 2015
The NHS Confederation has published an article on the 'listening revolution', written by Mike Connolly, the lead trainer for SAGE & THYME, see: http://www.nhsconfed.org/blog.
In the blog, Mike reflects on how important it is for busy NHS staff to have the skills to listen to patients, despite the pressures that staff are currently facing.
19 August 2015
Bookings are now being taken for our annual conference and training update, taking place on Tues 24 Nov 2015, in Manchester.
The conference is always a popular event with SAGE & THYME facilitators and others interested in learning more about the SAGE & THYME training.
The early bird fee of £60 per delegate is available until 30 September 2015 - the full fee charged from 1 October 2015 will be £80 per delegate.
Please click here for more information and to view the draft programme and booking form.
16 July 2015
For the first time, UHSM will be running SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshops and SATFAC courses in Lumen Rooms in London (near Euston station).
In the past, UHSM has only run workshops and courses outside of Manchester for customers who could fill all the spaces. But, in response to customer demand, UHSM is trialling running training, in October and November, that any customers can access.
For the date of the SAGE & THYME Foundation Level workshops click here and for the SATFAC course dates click here.
11 May 2015
The Royal Marsden Manual of Clinical Nursing Procedures is in its 9th edition, and is regarded as one of the best nursing textbooks available. The SAGE & THYME team is pleased to announce that the manual now features a section on the SAGE & THYME model and its evidence base. This demonstrates that the SAGE & THYME approach is becoming embedded in routine clinical practice.
For more information on the Manual click here.
9 April 2015
Nursing and midwifery students at King's College London (King's) are now being taught how to use the SAGE & THYME model to help them to listen and respond to patient concerns.
King's has recently signed a licence to run the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshops and has trained up a number of its lecturers to deliver the workshops to its students.
Read full news story here.
19 March 2015
An electronic version of a paper, on improving communication with palliative care cancer patients using the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop, has been published by Jane Griffiths, Charlotte Wlison, Gail Ewing, Michael Connolly and Gunn Grande in the European Journal of Oncology Nursing.
The paper highlights how attending the workshop, improved the district nurses' knowledge about communication behaviours helpful to patients; and that this was sustained two months after training. The district nurses also reported an increase in their confidence in communication skills, which was sustained post-workshop. In addition, the findings demonstrate that it can be difficult to control the environment when visitng a patient at home.
17 February 2015
Macmillan Cancer Support have produced a report on how to support and empower staff to deliver a good experience of care for patients. This includes ensuring that staff have the right training.
The report gives an example of how the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop has been successfully run by Macmillan Cancer Support in London in partnership with a number of NHS Trusts: the feedback from University College London Hospital "has been excellent".
To read the report click here.
20 November 2014
The 4th annual SAGE & THYME UK conference was held yesterday. It was attended by over 60 SAGE & THYME facilitators from around the UK, to hear the latest developments on SAGE & THYME, and to network and make contacts with facilitators from other organisations.
The conference was opened by Felicity Goodey CBE DL, Chair of University Hospitals of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and former BBC journalist, who said that she had attended a few courses in her time, but had never attended one that was "more patient focussed, more effective and better run", than the SAGE & THYME foundation level workshop.