1 / 6

THE GP PILOT PROGRAMME

Postgraduate General Practice Education. THE GP PILOT PROGRAMME. Professor Neil Jackson Dean of Postgraduate General Practice Education. June 2010. THERE WILL BE A NEW PILOT GP SPECIALTY TRAINING SCHEME IN THE NORTH WEST SECTOR OF LONDON.

shiri
Download Presentation

THE GP PILOT PROGRAMME

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Postgraduate General Practice Education THE GP PILOT PROGRAMME Professor Neil Jackson Dean of Postgraduate General Practice Education June 2010

  2. THERE WILL BE A NEW PILOT GP SPECIALTY TRAINING SCHEME IN THE NORTH WEST SECTOR OF LONDON • The GP Department of the London Deanery has supported the development of a GP pilot. All Trusts and training practices in London were invited to express an interest in taking on the Lead Provider role. • Pilot scope: • 12 new programmes at ST1 starting in August 2011 • The training will involve multi professional working across healthcare boundaries and integrated care settings • The pilot will be in the Hammersmith area of North West London, with training practices geographically linked to local PCTs • LPs’ role in managing the programme: • Lead providers (LPs) will manage the provision of high quality education in defined programmes and ensure continually improving quality and innovation in delivery • They will contract with a network of local education providers within a defined geography, based on London’s health sectors • There must be clear arrangements in place to manage trainees in difficulty • In addition, the LP will be responsible for developing new trainers and practices • Also arrangements for additional out of hours training capacity need to be provided • cont…/

  3. Curriculum and quality requirements: • The programmes proposed must comply with PMETB and RCGP requirements and standards for GP Specialist Training developed and approved by the RCGP / COGPED • Training practices / GP trainers involved in this pilot must be PMETB approved Additional expectations of the Commissioner: • The Lead Provider will be expected to introduce innovative learning methods, for example simulation, e-learning, resource library etc • The programme will align the requirements of healthcare in London

  4. Principles underpinning the GP Pilot • Quality Standards – RCGP/COGPED Standards • Developmental – Innovation and creativity (not more of the same) • Strategic – GP workforce requirements • - ‘Fitness for Purpose’ (what kind of GP for the future) • Research Enquiry • - Pilot evaluation • Testing the Commissioner/Provider separation and the Lead Provider model (where does GP fit within this? What does a LP look like for GP?)

  5. Current Commissioner/Provider Activity • Commissioner – Driving up Quality • Withdrawal of GP Trainer approval • Withdrawal of GP practice approval • Modified/restricted GP Trainer approvals • £17m invested in London’s GP training practices to expand physical training capacity • Continue to work to improve the quality of hospital GP training posts with RCGP • Commissioned academic ST4 programme working with London’s 5 undergraduate depts of GP • Cont…/

  6. Provider – Driving up Quality • National Revalidation Support Team Pathfinder Pilot • Recruitment – achieved 100% fill for Aug 2010 (339 ST1s) • The ARCP process • GP Informatics (support and development) • We continue to support • - GPs in training • - New GPs • - Established GPs • - Multiprofessional practice teams

More Related