Topic workshops have evolved from key issues that participants on 4Ps programmes have worked on and are offered as stand alone sessions.

Culture and diversity
Looks at public involvement for a diverse workforce.

Demanding patients and managing demand
Who are demanding patients? Why are they demanding and how should clinicians respond? Exploring differing expectations and managing demand.

Information for CHOICE: facilitates the culture change that is required of the NHS when implementing CHOICE.

Letter sharing has it all!
The NHS Plan requires clinicians to offer patient copies of correspondence about them with effect from April 2004. Preparing for implementation demonstrates how letter sharing fits within the involvement agenda.


Preparing for Expert Patient Programmes: raises awareness of how the Expert Patient Programme fits within the wider agenda of involving patients and the public in health care.

Refugees and Primary Care
Takes delegates through the transition from defining refugees as a problem group to the creation of a service to meet their need. This work is based on the experiences of Penny Trafford.
Refugees and Primary Care
Penny Trafford and Fedelma Winkler
The Royal College of General Practitioners, Publications (2000)
ISBN 0 85084 258 1 Members: £7.20 Non-members: £8.00
Available from http://www.rcgp.org.uk/rcgp/publications/catalogue/phct3.asp

The information context for consent
A vast amount of literature exists about the moral and ethical issues surrounding informed consent in clinical practice, but less has been written about the practical aspects of consent which this workshop explores.