Advanced Development Programme (ADP)

As well as giving you the tools to help patients manage their own conditions the course is a very clever mix of consultation skills and dealing with difficult consultations. I changed the start of my consultation from “What can I do for you today?” to “what are we doing today?......what else were you thinking of talking about” …i.e. using language that immediately shifts the responsibility from me taking over all of it to a more partnership approach of setting the agenda for the consultation together. I have been on a variety of consultation skills courses in the past. The difference between this and other consultation skills training is that it really does address the balance of responsibility and offers practical ways of engaging patients actively in their own care.