POPS Toolkit

The POPS Network is delighted to publish the new POPS Toolkit. This toolkit has been developed and coproduced with the 19 sites that have participated in the POPS network over the past 2 years, this content will continue to develop over time. The toolkit is constructed around ‘design principles’ and core components described by previous sites, as being necessary to develop and sustainably embed an effective POPS service.

POPS Guidance

The interactive POPS Guidance and the accompanying reference guide provide comprehensive guidance on how to design and implement POPS services.

Specifically, the Guidance makes available the resources that Guy’s and St Thomas's NHS FT developed to set up and sustain POPS services over the last 15 years. In sharing these resources, we hope to establish a network of POPS services to promote consistency and excellence in perioperative care for older people and facilitate a joint-up education, training and research programme across the UK.

The list of resources contained in the Guidance are also provided below:

• 2.3.1 Blank Letter Proforma

• 2.3.2 Standard clinic letter texts

• 2.3.3 OT Assessment

• 2.3.4 CGA Proforma

• 2.3.5 Referral criteria

• 2.3.6 Referral form

• 2.3.7a Example POPS letter

• 2.3.7b Example POPS letter 2

• 2.4.1 CGA Proforma for Ward

• 2.4.2 MDM Form

• 2.4.3 Summary Article

• 2.5.1 Reference Guide

• 3.2.1 Business Plan GSTT

• 3.2.2 Business Case GDT

• 3.2.3a Consultant POPS job description GSTT

• 3.2.3b Consultant POPS job description DGT

• 3.2.4 SpR POPS job description GSTT

• 3.2.5a CNS Band 6 GSTT POPS job description

• 3.2.5b CNS Band 7 GSTT POPS job description

• 3.2.5c CNS DGT POPS job description

• 3.2.6 OT job description

• 3.2.7 Consultant POPS job advert DGT

• 3.2.8 SpR POPS job advert

• 3.2.9a CNS POPS job advert DGT

• 3.2.9b CNS POPS job advert GSTT

• 3.2.10 OT POPS job advert GSTT

• 3.3.1 Referral criteria

• 3.3.2 EPR Referral Form

• 3.3.3 Outpatient CGA Proforma

• 3.3.4. MDM Form

• 3.3.5 CGA proforma for Ward

• 3.3.6 Example letter

• 3.3.7 Proforma outline- draft POPS letter

• 3.3.8 Standard letter texts

• 3.3.9 Patient Event Invitation Letter

• 3.3.10 Patient Event Report

• 3.3.11 Patient Event Workshop Guide

• 3.3.12a Social Media Facebook - DGT

• 3.3.12b Social Media Twitter - DGT

• 3.3.12c Social Media Intranet - DGT

• 3.3.13 Example newsletter article

• 3.3.14 Example poster for publicity

• 4.1.1 Evaluation of POPS FY programme

• 4.1.2 Foundation Doctors Curriculum

• 4.1.3 Foundation Doctors Induction Pack

• 4.1.4 Foundation Teaching Schedule

• 4.1.5 Registrars Curriculum

• 4.1.6 Registrars Induction Pack

• 4.1.7 Registrars Subspecialty Training Pack

• 4.1.8 Competency Framework CNS

• 4.1.9 Induction Pack POPS CNS

• 4.1.10 Teaching Schedule Ward Nurses

• 5.1.1 Example QI Poster

• 5.1.2 Patient Event Poster

• 5.1.3 Example of cross-specialty guideline