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A positive outlook as training specialist PPL looks forward
“After 10 Years with PPL, I am proud of what we have built, and excited for what is to come.” These are the words of PPL Training Sales director, Jonathan Eland. The York, Slough, and now Livingston-based training provider has been delivering its own highly-regarded brand of mechanical, electrical, and water hygiene training for just over 10 years, operating in its entirety for approaching 16. To consistently maintain and improve upon its own high standards, PPL Training says it has ‘relied upon a loyal band of key personnel, who have formed the backbone of the organisation’. This core group of employees has collectively steered the company to the position it currently holds – ‘as an industry-leading provider of Safe Systems of Work and Technical Compliance training’.
HV/LV Electrical Systems Training manager, Graham Taylor, joined PPL Training in September 2013. Ahead of his 10-year employment anniversary later this year, he said: “To me, our company ethos pairs high-quality delivery with a collective desire to support and invest in individuals, to
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Cooper. Also celebrating his 10-year anniversary with the company this month, he is keen to highlight ‘not what has been, but what is to come’. He said: “PPL Training is committed to bringing new training courses to market which reflect the changes and opportunities presented by the NHS and the
healthcare estate as a whole. Training for Dental Compressed Air and Vacuum Systems, the Premises Assurance Model, and Ventilation Awareness, are all in the works, or have launched.
“With the opening of our new training centre in Livingston, we bring our training closer to Scotland’s NHS Health Boards, and by bolstering our facilities in York and Slough, we aim to ensure that we can
help them achieve their goals.” Recently celebrating 11 years with PPL Training, Sales supervisor, Daniel Rodgers, added: “I am immensely proud to work for PPL Training, a company that continues to put the needs of its clients first, while delivering the highest quality, most up-to-date, industry standard tuition.” One key member of the team throughout has been MD, Gary
cater for the increased demand that we have experienced in recent years.”
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Well before the pandemic how best to use the existing healthcare estate – in terms of the optimal locations from which to deliver care – had been a regular talking point in EFM circles. As Professor Terry Young and Steve Powell rightly argue on pages 27-30, a healthcare location that someone living in or close to a town centre sees as highly convenient, may be a nightmare to access for somebody living in a rural location some miles away. Te authors recall the concept of ‘polyclinics’ that emerged in the latter years of the ‘noughties’ – where a range of diagnostic and treatment facilities, and both primary and some secondary care services, are brought together under one roof in a community setting. One of such facilities’ biggest advantages is that by-co- locating a wide range of services, patients spend less time travelling, and may, for example, be able to combine a diagnostic procedure with a follow- up appointment on the same day (see the separate article on pages 47-49 on the new Devizes Health Centre), bringing considerable added convenience. Prof. Young and Steve Powell point out,
however, that such ‘all-in-one’ facilities can also have their drawbacks; for example without the breadth of multidisciplinary expertise from colleagues available in in a large acute hospital, it may be hard for a clinician working at a community hub to determine the best treatment for a patient with particularly challenging symptoms. Te article also emphasises that while healthcare professionals thrive in ‘clusters’, many patients prefer being seen, and treated, in the less frenetic surroundings of a community setting. Te writers conclude that to address this
paradox, modern healthcare facilities need co-located services based on patient pathways, ‘with great transport links and parking to support users and providers alike’. However, they stress that connectivity in a modern setting means more than just good transport links, and that in a truly effective 21st century healthcare system, medical professionals and patients should be able, respectively, to deliver, and access, services remotely, ‘where that creates convenience, efficiencies, or cost advantage, and still yields diagnostic or treatment goals’. Tis is not a debate with any easy answers. What is certain, however, is that to make high-quality healthcare accessible to the widest population will continue to require thinking from the best minds, and some carefully considered policy decisions that leave as few disadvantaged as possible.
Jonathan Baillie,
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