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THE KENT, SURREY

South East Coast
AND SUSSEX GP SCHOOL Postgraduate Deanery for
Kent, Surrey and Sussex

PROSPECTUS University of London

Programmes commencing August 2011

Dartford
Chertsey
medway margate
frimley Epsom
WEST KENT
Canterbury
Guildford
EAST SURREY
maidstone

East Surrey
Tunbridge Wells EAST KENT
WEST SURREY
Ashford

Haywards Heath

WEST SUSSEX EAST SUSSEX, BRIGHTON & HOvE

Chichester Hastings
Worthing
brighton
Eastbourne
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CONTENTS THE KSS GP SCHOOL

GP training in the UK
04
04
What is a GP School? 04
KSS in brief 05
How do I apply to undertake GP training In KSS? 05
What is our aim? 05
What things do we value? 06
Some facts and figures 07
THE STRUCTURE OF THE SCHOOL 08
MEMBERS OF THE DEANERY TEAM IN THE GP SCHOOL 10
DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE GP EDUCATION
ADMINISTRATION TEAM providing support for the 12
gp school
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM TRAINING IN KSS? 16
Hospital placements 16
GP placements 17
Educational support 18
Induction 18
Learning sets 18
Study leave 19
Experiential learning for the Clinical Skills Assessment 19
Quality management in the KSS GP School 19
GPStR involvement in the GP School 20
What if training does not go as smoothly as anticipated? 20
Information sharing 21
Website 21
Salary 21
Additional financial support 21
Deferment 22
Less than full-time training (LTFT) 22
Sickness leave 23
Transfers 23
Out of programme experience 23
THE GP CURRICULUM 24
The ePortfolio 24
The MRCGP 24
The RCGP domains of competence and essential features 25
GLOSSARY 28
KENT 30
EASTern and coastal KENT 32
MEDWAY 34
West Kent, Dartford 36
West Kent, Maidstone 38

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West Kent, Tunbridge Wells 40 Training Practices in SURREY 81
KENT LOCAL EDUCATION PROVIDERS 42 Training Practices in the Chertsey GP Training Programme Area 81
DARTFORD & GRAVESHAM NHS TRUST Training Practices in the Crawley and East Surrey (CRESH) GP Training
44 81
Darent Valley Hospital Programme Area
EAST KENT HOSPITALS UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST Training Practices in the Epsom GP Training Programme Area 82
45
Kent & Canterbury Hospital
Training Practices in the Frimley GP Training Programme Area 82
EAST KENT HOSPITALS UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST
46
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital Training Practices in the Guildford GP Training Programme Area 83
EAST KENT HOSPITALS UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST
47 SUSSEX 84
William Harvey Hospital
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care EAST SUSSEX, Brighton 86
48
Partnership Trust (KMPT)
East sussex, Eastbourne 88
The Lions Hospice 50
East sussex, Hastings 90
MAIDSTONE & TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST
51 mid sussex, Mid-Sussex 92
Pembury Site
MAIDSTONE & TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS TRUST WEST sussex, Chichester 94
52
Maidstone Hospital
WEST sussex, Worthing 96
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
53
Medway Maritime Hospital Sussex local education providers 98
Pilgrims Hospice 54 Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
Training Practices in Kent 55 Royal Sussex County Hospital & Princess Royal University 100
Hospital, Haywards Heath
Training Practices in the East Kent GP Training Programme Area 55
East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
102
Training Practices in the Medway GP Training Programme Area 56 Eastbourne District General Hospital and Conquest Hospital

Training Practices in the Dartford GP Training Programme Area 56 St Barnabas Hospice 103

Training Practices in the Maidstone GP Training Programme Area 57 Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Psychiatric) 104
Training Practices in the Tunbridge Wells GP Training Programme Area 57 WestERN Sussex NHS Trust
106
St Richard’s Hospital
SURREY 58
WestERN Sussex NHS Trust
EAST SURREY, Crawley and East Surrey (CRESH) 60 108
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals
East Surrey, Epsom 62 St Wilfrid’s Hospice 109
WEST SURREY, Chertsey 64
Training Practices in Sussex 110
WEST SURREY, Frimley 66
Training Practices in the Brighton GP Training Programme Area 110
WEST SURREY, Guildford 68
Training Practices in the Eastbourne GP Training Programme Area 110
SURREY LOCAL EDUCATION PROVIDERS 70
Training Practices in the Hastings GP Training Programme Area 111
Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust
72
St Peter’s Hospital Training Practices in the Chichester GP Training Programme Area 111
Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
73 Training Practices in the Mid-Sussex GP Training Programme Area 112
Epsom General Hospital
FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST Training Practices in the Worthing GP Training Programme Area 112
74
Frimley Park Hospital
GP Training Posts available august 2009 113
the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice 75
THE KSS POST-CERTIFICATION GP SCHOOL 114
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS foundation Trust
76 DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE GP EDUCATION
Royal Surrey County Hospital
ADMINISTRATION TEAM PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE 116
St Catherine’s Hospice 77 POST CERTIFICATION GP SCHOOL
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS
78
FOUNDATION Trust
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS trust
79
East Surrey Hospital
Surrey PCT 80
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THE KSS GP SCHOOL

Welcome to the KSS GP School. This prospectus, now in its third edition, aims to
provide you with information about the rich variety of training environments we
provide for doctors who wish to train for a career in general practice. You will find
information about all our Specialty Training Programmes and the locations, the
educational processes and the support for doctors training for general practice as well
as the overall structure of the School. I hope that you enjoy reading it and find it useful.

GP training in the UK WHAT IS THE KSS GP

At present, GP Specialty Training takes SCHOOL?
place over three integrated years which
The KSS GP School is a virtual
must include one year of appropriate
organisation that draws together
hospital posts and one year of training
postgraduate doctors in training for
in an approved GP Training Practice. The
general practice, their teachers and
remaining year will be a mixture of hospital
supervisors, and the appropriate
and GP placements, and in KSS we are
administrative staff in a geographical area
increasingly providing more time in general
(normally that of a Postgraduate Deanery)
practice in line with the recommendations
that works in collaboration with the Royal
of the Royal College of General
College of General Practitioners to deliver
Practitioners to provide all GP trainees with
and support GP training programmes.
18 months GP experience.
The KSS GP School is an integral part of
General Practice and Primary Care
the KSS Postgraduate Deanery, itself part
continue to change and develop in the UK,
of the South East Coast Strategic Health
and provide the vanguard of healthcare
Authority. It is managed by the KSS
provision that blends clinical science
Deanery in collaboration with the Royal
with the richly rewarding environment of
College of General Practitioners. It is part
working with individuals and in their lives.
of the KSS Department of Postgraduate
The working context is constantly evolving,
General Practice Education.
as are the skills and knowledge that

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individual GPs need. KSS aims to anticipate
immediate future trends by changing the
educational content and context of its
training to make it pertinent to all our new
starters, and give them the best start in
their GP careers.
KSS aims to anticipate
immediate future trends by
changing the educational
content and context of its
training to make it pertinent
“
to all our new starters, and
give them the best start in
their GP careers.

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Kss in brief
The Counties of Kent, Surrey and Sussex
cover the major part of the urban and rural
areas of South East England. KSS thus has
excellent transport links to London and
Europe with the Eurostar and high speed
rail link and the many cross channel routes.
It has a rich mix of towns, three ancient
cathedral cities and a long and varied
coastline. In terms of lifestyle, rest and
relaxation and transport links we think it is
the perfect part of the world in which to
train. We give further information, about
the different training locations and their
local flavour, elsewhere in this prospectus.
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HOW DO I APPLY
TO UNDERTAKE
GP TRAINING IN KSS?
All applications to GP training in the UK
are co-ordinated by the National Office
for GP Recruitment (NRO)
www.gprecruitment.org.uk and
applications to KSS should be made
through its website.
What is our aim?
Very simply – to enable you to undertake
your GP training and get your CCT
as smoothly and in as timely a way as
possible. In addition, we want to ensure
that your journey is stimulating and fun
filled and when you do finish, that you
have a good base to continue your lifelong
personal professional development in the
exciting and developing world of general
practice – preferably in KSS!
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What things do we value?
The School places the greatest importance
on our GPStRs and their progress. We
understand that learning a large new set of
information and skills, and demonstrating
that knowledge and skills in assessments, can
provide a challenge, so we try to put as much
support and help your way as possible.
Induction to our training posts is an essential
part of the process, so that you should not
have to undertake the duties of a new post
without clear guidance and information as to
what you need to know. We like to ensure
that this is happening on the ground, so the
KSS GP School carries out inspections of all
our GP training areas every year (more than
that carried out by any other Specialty School)
and asks our GP trainees to feedback on their
experience of every placement via our online
feedback process and exit interviews.
This means that we can keep a close eye on
things and move to remedy any issues as
early as possible and continue to enhance
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our processes for the next incumbent. We
want to ensure that your hospital posts
provide good and relevant experience for
becoming a GP, and have created guidance
that will allow you and your Supervisor to
determine what important areas that you
need to learn in any hospital post for your
training as a GP. Through joint learning
processes with GP educators and hospital
consultants, we seek to ensure that your
consultants will be prepared and have an
understanding of the assessments that they
will be doing with you.
We know that it is not possible to provide
every GP trainee with their ‘ideal’ spread of
different clinical and specialty experience, if
indeed such a thing exists. In order to tailor
this to individual needs we have created a
number of Integrated Training Posts (ITP)
that are based in general practice but permit
you to have 3 days a week in another clinical
area that is relevant to GP training. These are
very popular and provide good feedback,
but even if you do not have one on your
rotation, you will have at least 16 months,
often 20 months in a general practice post
which will allow plenty of opportunity for
any specific clinical learning needs to be
addressed appropriately for general practice.
The School will provide you with a number
of training days at no cost. These may be
informational (e.g. induction to the GP year,
and information about the assessments),
training (Clinical Skills Assessment training
and experience in preparation for the CSA),
learning about and trying out skills for
telephone consulting, particularly in the out
of hours situation, and may be held locally as
well as centrally.
The School also provides a support structure
for you, with your Educational Supervisor,
your Programme Directors, and your Patch
Associate GP Dean all available to help with
any problems you may have. The majority
of problems for GPStRs are dealt with locally
and easily but there is a robust support
network available for any situations that may
need further help.
And you have a voice! There is an active
committee of GP trainees in KSS that draws
representation from every training area, and
provides direct and close communication with
the GP Dean and Head of the GP School.

Chertsey
frimley Epsom
Guildford
EAST SURREY
East Surrey
WEST SURREY
Haywards Heath
WEST SUSSEX
Chichester
Worthing
Some facts and figures
The Deanery covers a population of
around 4.2 million people and has 13
major Acute Hospital Trusts covering a
number of general hospitals, 8 Primary
Care Trusts, 4 Mental Health & Specialist
Trusts (that provide a wide number of
inpatient and outpatient locations) and
4000 GPs. East Kent and Brighton and
Sussex are University NHS Trusts and
Frimley Park and Medway are Foundation
NHS Trusts. The School has 285 individual
GP Specialty Training Programmes in 16
GP Training Programme locations, based
around the main Acute Trusts. That
means at maximum capacity the School
will have around 900 GPStRs. At present,
GP Specialty Training programmes in
KSS are of three years’ duration and
provide a wide variety of combinations
of posts, all with at least 16 months in
general practice placements (some with
more). All GP training programmes are
organised to deliver the outcomes of
the GP Curriculum (and approved by the
GMC for this purpose). In KSS we aim to
provide GPStRs with as wide an exposure
Dartford
medway
WEST KENT
maidstone
Tunbridge Wells
EAST SUSSEX, BRIGHTON & HOvE
Hastings
brighton
Eastbourne
to the learning environments appropriate
to the GP curriculum as possible. The KSS
GP School is large, having currently about
800+ GPStRs at any one time. There are
around 250 Practices approved for GP
training with 370 GP Trainers.
Because it is a big area, for convenience
we divide each of the counties of Kent,
Surrey and Sussex into east and west
patches to help with our administrative
processes, and the prospectus follows this
structure in describing the School.
The GP Specialty Training Programmes are
supported by a local team of enthusiastic
GP Programme Directors (these will nearly
all be GPs who have been trained and
selected for the purpose, however some
come from an academic background in
medical education and have University
posts as well).
There are normally three per training
programme (more where the programme
covers a wider area and has a larger
number of GPStRs) who will support you
in every year of the training programme
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margate
Canterbury
EAST KENT
Ashford
and co-ordinate the group of GP Trainers
who will look after you when you are
in your GP placements. Although each
individual GP Training Programme delivers
everything that is necessary for you to
get your CCT, each one has an individual
character and flavour.
At each training locality (usually based
on the Acute NHS Trust and its main
hospital/s) you will be part of the local
Faculty of the GP School. The Faculty
consists of all the GPStRs, the GP
Programme Directors, the GP Trainers
and the Patch Associate GP Dean. The
Faculty meetings will also include Hospital
Consultants who are acting as Clinical
Supervisors for GPStRs, and this provides
an excellent supportive structure to
manage the progress of all GPStRs.
Fuller information about each GP training
programme area that provides more local
colour and flavour will be found later in
this prospectus.
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THE STRUCTURE
OF THE SCHOOL
In KSS, GP training is carried out in 16
GP Training Programme areas, and each
of these areas is linked to a Local GP
Faculty Group (LFG). The Faculty consists
of those GPStRs, GP Educators (GP
Trainers and GP Specialty Programme
Directors), Consultant Clinical Supervisors
and administrative staff (such as the
Medical Education Managers) who are all
involved in the GP training in that locality.
The Faculty allows the progress of all
GPStRs to be monitored, which means
that effective and speedy support can be
directed to any GPStR that might be in
need of it, for whatever reason.
The Local GP Faculties link to the other
Specialty Faculties in each Hospital Trust
through the Local Academic Board. This
allows networking and good educational
practice to be shared at the local level.
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Although the GP School is organised
geographically, there are some
instances where for administrative
purposes responsibility for a GP Training
Programme Area is with a Patch Associate
GP Dean mainly responsible for another
geographical area - the Crawley and East
Surrey Hospitals (CRESH) GP Training
Programme Area falls across the border
of both East Surrey and West Sussex, and
responsibility is shared between the East
Surrey Patch Associate GP Dean and the
West Sussex Patch Associate GP Dean,
and Medway is geographically located
in West Kent, but for administrative
purposes responsibility lies with the Patch
Associate GP Dean for East Kent.
The main central administrative support
for the GP School is based at the main
Deanery offices at Bermondsey Street,
near London Bridge Station.
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DeanGuildford
Postgraduate
GP GP
Education
Training Programme
Professor Abdol Tavabie

Guildford GP Head Of gp school

Training Programme Ian McLean

Patch Associate GP
frimley gp Dean west surrey Associate GP Dean
Training Programme Mary Davis
Hilary Diack

chertsey gp
Training Programme

Tunbridge Wells GP
Training Programme
Epsom gp
Training Programme
Patch Associate GP Patch Associate GP
Dean East surrey Maidstone GP
Dean west KEnt Training Programme
Chris Warwick Debbie Taylor
Crawley and east
surrey (CRESH) GP
Training Programme
dartford GP
Training Programme

Chichester GP east Kent GP

Training Programme Training Programme
Patch Associate GP Patch Associate GP
Dean west Sussex Dean east KEnt
Glyn Williams Kim Stillman
Worthing GP medway GP
Training Programme Training Programme

MID Sussex GP
Training Programme

brighton GP
Training Programme
Patch Associate GP Associate Dean for
curriculum and
Dean east sussex
Mary-Rose Shears
assessment
Susan Bodgener
EASTBOURNE GP
Training Programme

HASTINGS GP
Training Programme
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MEMBERS OF THE DEANERY TEAM
PROFESSOR ABDOL TAVABIE
Dean of Postgraduate GP Education
Professor Tavabie manages the whole of the
Department of Postgraduate General Practice,
with responsibility for both the GP School
and Post Certification GP School providing
educational support for GPs. He is also Deputy
to the Dean Director and has a number of
national roles.
Email: atavabie@gpkss.ac.uk
Dr MARY-ROSE SHEARS
Associate GP Dean - East Sussex
Dr Mary-Rose Shears is responsible for the
training schemes and opportunities throughout
East Sussex. Previously she was a programme
director on the Eastbourne GP training scheme.
She is also a GP trainer in her practice in Seaford.
Email: mshears@gpkss.ac.uk
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DR IAN MCLEAN
Deputy GP Dean and Head of GP School
Dr Ian Mclean’s role is to ensure the effective
running of the GP School and to support the
team of Associate Deans, the GP Programme
Directors, and the GP Trainers. He is responsible
for recruitment to the School, and the effective
administrative support to GPStRs. He is available to
respond to queries from both GP educators
and GPStRs.
Email: imclean@gpkss.ac.uk
DR KIM STILLMAN
Associate GP Dean – East Kent and
Medway
Dr Kim Stillman is responsible for the training
programmes in East Kent and Medway which
includes an innovative placement in association
with Eastern and Coastal PCT. In addition to
this she supports the recruitment and training
of GPs to become GP Trainers.
Email: kstillman@gpkss.ac.uk

IN THE GP SCHOOL
DR SUSAN BODGENER
Associate GP Dean for MRCGP
Assessment
Dr Susan Bodgener’s responsibilities include GPStR
induction and training for the MRCGP assessments,
information sharing and training for GP Trainers
about the MRCGP, and acting as a link with the
RCGP to support the use and understanding of
the ePortfolio. Susan also is responsible for the
organization of the ARCP.
Email: sbodgener@gpkss.ac.uk
DR DEBORAH TAYLOR
Associate GP Dean - West Kent
Dr Debbie Taylor’s responsibilities include the
quality assurance of all training Practices in
West Kent and the ongoing development of
Trainers, appraisal and support of Programme
Directors. She is also responsible for supporting
the development of Foundation and GP run
through programmes.
Email: dtaylor@gpkss.ac.uk
DR MARY DAVIS
Associate GP Dean
Dr. Davis is responsible for the development
of the Simulated Patient Surgery Project to
provide support across KSS for GPStR training
and experience, particularly of the CSA. She
also runs focused CSA training for GPStRs who
are found to need that extra support. She has
also been working with trainers in East Kent to
support the move towards the PGCertificate as
ongoing trainer professional development.
Email: mdavis@gpkss.ac.uk
DR. CHRIS WARWICK
Associate GP Dean East Surrey
Dr Chris Warwick is responsible for the
quality of GP training in East Surrey and
Crawley, supporting trainees, trainers and
programme directors. He is also involved in
supporting recruitment to GP training, and
the professionalisation of the GP educator
network.
Email: cwarwick@gpkss.ac.uk
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DR HILARY DIACK
Associate GP Dean – West Surrey
Dr Hilary Diack’s responsibilities for the School
in addition to those for her patch include
Programme Director development, and she is
also the co-ordinator and lead tutor for the KSS
GP modular teaching programme to train GPs
to become clinical and educational supervisors,
and GP Trainers
Email: hdiack@gpkss.ac.uk
DR GLYN WILLIAMS
Associate GP Dean - West Sussex
Dr Glyn Williams has responsibility for West
Sussex. He teaches on the GP Academic
Pathway and supports the process to map the
GP curriculum to the learning outcomes of
hospital posts.
Email: gwilliams@gpkss.ac.uk
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DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE
PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE GP
David Buckle
Interim GP Training Lead Administrator
David’s role includes:
• M
 onitoring all GPStRs’ eportfolios and their
progress of MRCGP training, chasing for
completion of outstanding assessments, and
notifying GPStRs when their ARCPs are due
• R
 esponsible for setting up and maintaining
the eportfolio records for all GPStRs.
• R
 esponsible for the administration
and organisation of Annual Review of
Competence Progression panels for all GPStRs
• R
 esponsible for the organisation and
administration of induction and training
days for GPStRs
• H
 andling queries from GPStRs, Educational
Supervisors and Trust faculty staff in
relation to the MRCGP process, eportfolio,
ARCP and certification
• Key contact for the RCGP Certification Unit
• R
 esponsible for the organization of the
GPStR Committee meetings
David is a key contact for GP trainees and can
be emailed on dbuckle@gpkss.ac.uk
Sandy Hunter
GP Payments & Office Administrator
• P ayment Administrator duties include the
checking of and processing of claims for
stage 2 and 3 of the recruitment process,
any courses attended by GP Registrars,
Doctor Retainer Scheme, and CPD Funding
for GP Trainers and Educational Supervisor
payments.
• C
 hecking and coding invoices on the
system to make sure we have been
charged correctly, answering any queries
related to invoices/claims.
• R
 aising of purchase orders and checking
and sending staff claims.
Sandy can be emailed on shunter@gpkss.ac.uk
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Laurainne Copnall
Surrey Patch Manager
Laurainne’s role includes:
• P roviding PA Support to Associate GP
Deans for the Surrey Patch and organising
patch events and appraisals for Surrey
Programme Directors
• R
 esponsibility for the administration and
organisation of accreditation and re-
accreditation of Surrey GP Trainers
• O
 rganisation of the Surrey Local Education
Provider (LEP) visits and supporting GP
Specialty Recruitment as required
• O
 rganisation of KSS GP Programme
Director Conferences, the Appointments
Committee processes (recruitment of GP
Programme Directors). Administration of
the GP Retainer Scheme and administration
of the Refreshers/Induction Doctors to the
NHS Scheme
Laurainne’s contact is primarily with qualified
GPs who have elected to become GP Trainers
so that they may go on to host FY2, ST1, ST2
or ST3 trainees at their practices. Laurainne can
be emailed at lcopnall@gpkss.ac.uk
Lisa Jones
GP Educator Pathway Manager
Lisa’s role includes:
• M
 anaging and organising the modular
training (educational pathway) courses
for Clinical Supervisors and Community
Educational Supervisors and potential
GP Trainers, including the PG Cert
qualification.
• W
 orking with Associate Deans and
Life Long Learning advisor to plan the
expansion of the training placements
• M
 anaging FY2 budget and funding
applications for Clinical Supervisors and
service level agreements.
• O
 rganising workshops and courses for GP
Trainers including the Summer & Winter
Workshops
Lisa’s contact is primarily with qualified GPs
to support them on the Educational Pathway
and with Clinical Supervisors and Community
Educational Supervisors with regards to FY2
placements. Lisa can be emailed on
ljones@gpkss.ac.uk

GP EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION TEAM
SCHOOL
Julie Coulson
Kent Patch Manager
Julie’s role includes:
• P roviding PA Support to Associate GP
Deans for Kent and organising of patch
events and appraisals for Kent Programme
Directors
• R
 esponsible for the administration and
organisation of accreditation and re-
accreditation of Kent GP Trainers
• O
 rganisation of the Kent Local Education
Provider (LEP) visits and supporting GP
Specialty Recruitment as required
• O
 rganisation of the GP Deanery AGM,
annual Practice Managers Conference and
Out of Hours Courses for both Clinical
Supervisors and GP Registrars
• S upporting the administration for the
Underperforming Doctors project
Julie’s contact is primarily with qualified GPs
who have elected to become GP Trainers so
that they may go on to host FY2, ST1, ST2
or ST3 trainees at their practices. Julie can be
emailed at jcoulson@gpkss.ac.uk
Aaron Madzime
GP Projects Administrator
Aaron’s role includes:
• S upporting the administration of the
Paramedic Practitioner scheme
• S upporting the administration of the
2007/08 and 2008/09 GP Training
Expansion projects
• A
 ssisting with the monitoring of ePortfolios
for ARCP
• Other project administration as required
Aaron can be contacted for any enquiries
related to ePortfolio. He can be emailed at
amadzime@gpkss.ac.uk
Sandra Forster
Primary Care Business Manager
Sandra’s role includes:
• P roviding leadership of the GP department
ensuring the planning and implementation of
the business plan, policy and strategic objectives
including improving and developing systems
• P roviding leadership to the management
of recruitment of GP Specialty trainees and
their ARCP
• F inancial management of the GP
departmental budget
• R
 esponsibility for GP data and information
management
• P roviding leadership on the administrative
processes for the Post Certification GP
School processes
• P roviding high level support for business
management to the Dental department
• P articipates in the Senior Management
Forum to support Deanery wide business
and operational issues
Whilst the other members of the team will
help you with your day to day issues, you may
contact Sandra if you are looking for further
clarification on deanery processes. Sandra can
be contacted by email at sforster@gpkss.
ac.uk or telephone 0207 415 3484
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Elena Gonzalez
GP Training Recruitment Manager
Elena’s role includes:
• M
 anaging the recruitment process for
GPStRs in KSS via the online application
system, longlisting, Stage 2 assessment and
selection assessment centre
• M
 anaging the trainees’ placement
documentation and maintaining up to date
database and information systems
• K
 ey contact for GPStRs, training practices
and programme directors relating to
recruitment and placement issues
• M
 anaging the intra/inter Deanery
transfer process
• Administration of LTFTs at ST3 level
You will already have had communication with
Elena through the recruitment process and will
continue to do so throughout the recruitment
cycle. She can also be contacted regarding intra
and inter deanery transfers, at egonzalez@
gpkss.ac.uk
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Sharon Norton
GP Patch Management Administrator
Sharon’s role includes:
• S upporting the Patch Managers with
the organisation of training practice
accreditation visits and local education
provider visits
• A
 ssisting with organising workshops and
conferences
• A
 ssisting with the recruitment process and
other Deanery events
• Co-ordinating trainee placement feedback
Sharon’s contact is primarily with GP Training
Practices supporting the Patch Managers.
Sharon can be emailed on
snorton@gpkss.ac.uk
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Sultana Parvez
GP Training Recruitment Officer
Sultan’s role includes:
• A
 ssisting the GP Training Recruitment
Manager with all administrative processes
for the selection and appointment of
GPStRs
• S upporting the organisation of training
events, stage 2 and Stage 3 selection
assessment centre
• R
 esponsible for administration of
maternity/sick leave and FPGR1 form
(registrar payment form)
• H
 andling general queries in relation to
recruitment process and GP training
Sultana’s contact is primarily with applicants for
GP Training. She can be contacted on
sparvez@gpkss.ac.uk

Kitty Randunne
PA to the GP Deans Office
Kitty’s role includes:
• P roviding PA Support to the GP Dean,
Primary Care Business Manager and GP
Office Manager
• B
 eing the first point of contact for
telephone enquiries into the Deans Office
• C
 o-ordinating a range of meetings and
events producing agendas and minutes
• T he production and distribution of
the Specialty Training Bulletin and GP
Newsletter
• M
 anaging the administration process
of the GP Education Awards and co-
ordination of the staff appraisals
Kitty’s contact is primarily with external
stakeholders. Kitty can be emailed at
krandunne@gpkss.ac.uk
Sue Smith
GP Deputy Office Manager and Sussex
Patch Manager
Sue’s role includes:
Supporting and deputising for the Primary Care
Business Manager
• G
 P Patch Management Team Leader,
including managing, training and
development of staff
• C
 o-ordinating the Trainer Selection
Committee responsible for the
accreditation and re-accreditation of GP
Trainers and overall responsibility for the
organisation of Local Education Provider
visits (LEP)
• P A Support to Associate GP Deans for the
Sussex Patch including the organisation of
patch events and organising appraisals for
Sussex Programme Directors
• S ervicing the GP Specialty School Board
and supporting GP Specialty Recruitment
as required
Sue’s contact is primarily with qualified GPs
who have elected to become GP Trainers so
that they may go on to host FY2, ST1, ST2 or
ST3 trainees at their practices. You may contact
Sue at ssmith@gpkss.ac.uk
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Nina Tafa
GP Training Manager
Nina’s role includes:
• W
 orking closely with the Associate
Dean for Assessment and managing
the administration of monitoring the
assessment processes for GP trainees
throughout the training programmes,
providing up to date guidance and
information
• M
 anaging the ePortfolios for trainees,
populating the placement data and linking
the Trainees ePortfolio to the Educational
Supervisors
• O
 rganising induction and training days for
GP trainees
• C
 o-ordinating and managing the Annual
Review of Competence Progression (ARCP)
Nina will support you during your GP training
programme, including the induction and
training days. Nina can be contacted via email
ntafa@gpkss.ac.uk
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The KSS GP School will offer you an
accredited and appropriate training
programme with full educational
support in order to achieve a
Certificate of Completion of Training
(CCT) from the GMC.
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WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT
FROM TRAINING IN KSS?
Each of our GP Training Programme
areas will provide a blend of hospital
posts and GP placements which,
although different, will provide an
appropriate balance. The School places
great emphasis on GPStRs being
helped to recognise their individual
learning needs, and for our team of
skilled Educational Supervisors and
Programme Directors to facilitate the
delivery of those needs. This means
that if there are any areas of clinical
experience that would be useful for
any individual GPStRs, that have
not been part of their experience
since qualification, the Educational
Supervisors will work with them to
create ways to provide that (e.g. by
targeted exposure in general practice,
by attendance at clinics or appropriate
ward based activity). In addition,
KSS provides a number of Integrated
Training Posts (ITPs). These posts
which are based in general practice
allow (normally) three days each
week in a hospital based specialty or
community clinic. These posts provide
focused experience in that particular
clinical area with the chance to
relate that directly to GP and link the
learning to the appropriate outcomes
of the GP curriculum.
KSS has also taken a very exciting
initiative to provide a development
of the ITP in which the GPStR will
be working with a PCT in order
to develop the skills of medical
management and leadership, skills
which have been identified as very
important for GPs in the future. This is
an innovative and unique educational
development that the School is very
pleased to support and has been
evaluated very positively.
HOSPITAL PLACEMENTS
Each GP Training Programme uses a
number of posts in different specialty areas
that are approved for GP training, and
each will give you appropriate learning
experience for aspects of the GP curriculum.
You are not expected to learn everything
there is to know about a particular area of
the GP curriculum from any individual post,
as your learning is a developmental process
that takes place over the three years of your
training. Your Educational Supervisor in
your hospital posts, and GP Trainer in your
GP placement will work with you to ensure
that all the curriculum areas are covered
and provide you with educational support
throughout the whole of your training. You
will have a nominated Clinical Supervisor,
who will be a hospital consultant, to
ensure that your experience and training is
appropriate for you and the level you are
at. You will undertake the Workplace Based
Assessments (WPBA) as described later and
record these in your ePortfolio. You will also
find that the Medical Education Manager
(MEM) in the Medical Education Centre will
also be a very helpful resource and often is
the first port of call for many queries from
GPStRs. Whilst you are in a substantive
hospital post, you will be employed by the
hospital or psychiatric Trust. Some posts
take place in hospices and the hospice may
be your employer.
The KSS GP School has prepared very
helpful guidance for both GPStRs and
their Clinical and Educational Supervisors
that maps the experience and learning
normally to be found in any hospital
specialty post to the learning outcomes of
the GP curriculum. This will allow you to
understand what are the important areas
to learn during the post and the most
appropriate ways to have these assessed,
which can be jointly organised with your
Clinical Supervisor. This guidance is available
on our website.
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GP PLACEMENTS
You will have experience in GP
placements for either 4 or 8 months in
your first and second years in the GP
Training Programme (ST1 and ST2). Your
main placement in GP will be in your
third year (ST3) which will be for the
whole year. This year will allow you to
consolidate your learning and really get
to grips with the skills and knowledge
required for managing patients as a
GP. In addition to the workplace based
assessments you will be undertaking
the external assessments of the MRCGP,
the AKT (this is normally taken in this
year, but can be taken earlier) and the
CSA. You will have a close contact with
your GP Trainer who will act as both
your Educational and Clinical Supervisor
(though in most Training Practices, there is
wide variety of support from all members
of the Primary Healthcare Team). Whilst in
the GP placement, you will be employed
by the Practice. It is also important to be
aware that all practising GPs are required
to be on the Medical Performers List of
the Primary Care Trust (PCT) in which they
work and you will also need to be on
this. In order to do this you will need to
undergo an enhanced Criminal Records
Bureau (CRB) check. The GP Training
Recruitment Manager will inform you of
this and you need to ensure that your
Medical Indemnity is appropriate before
you start. The Practice Manager in your
Training Practice will be an invaluable
source of support for you, even before
you start, and will be able to answer and
resolve many of your queries relating to
your employment in the Practice.
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EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
The KSS GP School provides a strong
and robust framework of educational
support for its GPStRs. You will have an
Educational Supervisor for the whole of
your time in the programme. This will be
a GP Trainer, working and teaching in
general practice, and in many cases will
be the same person as your ST3 Trainer.
Your training programme is delivered
over the three years within the context
of gradually increasing skills, knowledge
and competency related to being a
general practitioner as detailed in the
RCGP GP curriculum. (Fuller information
is given about this below). Although you
will be responsible for your learning and
development, the School will provide
a number of supportive processes for
you. You will provide evidence of your
educational progress using the workplace
based assessments and recording the
outcomes of these, and other additional
learning, on your electronic RCGP
Portfolio, which can be accessed via the
internet on any appropriate PC.
Your Educational Supervisor will work
with you to develop your Personal
Development Plan as a GPStR. Of
course, this will relate to the learning
outcomes of the GP Curriculum, and your
achievement of your CCT, but each GPStR
is an individual learner with unique needs
and learning preferences that we will seek
to address during the training.
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INDUCTION
Induction is a very important part of
working in any new job, or context.
In KSS this not only will take place in your
individual training posts, but for your final
year in general practice the KSS GP School
provides essential information meetings
for all GPStRs to understand about the GP
curriculum and the necessary assessments
that are part of this, and how to use the
ePortfolio.
LEARNING SETS
Learning in a group of peers is a very
valuable process, and in the KSS GP
School, we provide this in each training
area. In the GP placements a group
learning set meets weekly during the term
time. In the hospital placements, there
is normally a learning set for the GPStRs
in ST1 and ST2 posts that meets at a
frequency appropriate for the individuals
and the locality. These sets aim to support
GPStRs in linking their experience to the
learning outcomes of the GP curriculum
and developing their understanding of
the context and framework of general
practice. These sets are facilitated by the
Programme Directors.
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STUDY LEAVE Experiential Quality management

The KSS GP School aims to maximize learning for the in the KSS GP School
the study potential of its GPStRs and
to ensure that educational support is Clinical Skills The KSS GP School prides itself on its
processes to support the quality of GP
targeted appropriately at the learning
outcomes of the GP curriculum. Whilst
Assessment training. The School receives feedback
The KSS School provides support at all in a number of ways. These include the
you are in a hospital post, you will be
levels for GP trainees in their final year reports from the meetings of the Local
supported by both your Clinical Supervisor
who will be undertaking the Clinical Faculty Groups, the feedback from
(normally one of your Consultants) and
Skills Assessment (CSA) of the MRCGP. GPStRs about their training placements
your Educational Supervisor (GP Trainer).
In addition, the School invites all ST3 via the online survey, the feedback from
In each hospital post you will be able trainees to participate in an interactive the national GMC survey of all doctors
to have a planned day to go and meet ‘rehearsal’ for the CSA, done in the actual in training, and the information gained
with your Educational Supervisor in centre where the assessment takes place, from our yearly visits to GP Faculties and
their GP Practice. This will allow you which recreates a live assessment. This GP Training in placements provided by the
to have close support and educational allows you to practice skills, experience Local Education Providers (Trusts and GP
supervision, to check that your learning the process, and get live feedback on Training Practices). In addition we have a
and assessments are on track, for you to your performance. strongly developed process for training
link your experience of medicine in your our GP Trainers, and for their approval
specialty post with the patient experience and continuing re-approval as Trainers. All
in general practice, and thus to know our Programme Directors have an annual
what areas of your post are particularly appraisal with their Patch Associate GP
useful for GP. The curriculum mapping Dean in order to develop and enhance
guidance will also be very helpful for you their own continuing professional
in doing this. development. The School places the
In addition the GP School provides a greatest importance on feedback received
number of supported learning days from GPStRs in ensuring we continue to
targeted at the areas you will need in deliver high quality education and training
order to manage the curriculum learning for general practice.
outcomes and all the assessments. In
this way the School provides all the
educational support that you will need in
order to become a GP.
Your Programme Directors will work
with you to determine your specific
educational needs, how these can be
met and the best way to do this. The
School does provide some additional
financial support both in the hospital and
the GP placements that can be used for
additional learning activities if appropriate
to your agreed learning needs. You
will need to discuss this with both
your Educational Supervisor and your
Programme Director.
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GPStR INVOLVEMENT IN
THE GP SCHOOL
GPStR involvement in the GP School is
encouraged and supported. There is a
GPStR Committee that is chaired by a
GPStR and has GPStR representatives from
every training programme in KSS. The
chair is a member of the GP School Board.
The Committee meetings which take
place quarterly provide an opportunity
for GPStRs to raise and discuss issues
of concern to them, and to hear about
developments in GP education nationally
and in KSS. You will be able to share any
issues with your local representative. This
allows you to have a voice in feeding
back and shaping GP training from your
experience.
The KSS GP School also encourages every
GPStR to feedback on their experience
of each of their training posts in order to
help the School continue to develop the
quality of the education and training it is
supporting. This feedback is essential and
is used by the School in the process of
quality managing GP education in each
placement.
In addition the School regards GPStR
input to the visits to the GP Faculties
at the Training Programme areas as
very important, and every visiting team
includes a GPStR.
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WHAT IF TRAINING DOES
NOT GO AS SMOOTHLY
AS ANTICIPATED?
There are a number of reasons why
some GPStRs may encounter difficulties
during their GP training. These may
relate to ill-health, changes in personal
circumstances and life stresses, or just
difficulty in achieving the expected
progress or completing the assessments
successfully. If you experience problems,
KSS provides a support network. Your
Educational Supervisor will always be
available to discuss any concerns, and
whilst this is a particularly close relationship
in the GP placements, you will also have
contact with them during your hospital
placements. Your GP Programme Director
will also be a useful source of support
and information and, should you need
more help, then the Patch Associate GP
Dean can provide very helpful input and
liaison with the Head of School and GP
Dean where necessary. The KSS School
ensures that all our GPStRs with any
difficulties continue to be monitored so
that the appropriate support is being given
to them. Should any GPStR need extra
time in order to successfully complete
their training, then information about this
process can be used to inform the Deanery
to decide if this is appropriate.
Although it is every GPStR’s responsibility
for their education and to demonstrate
their learning, the KSS GP School will
always ensure that all appropriate support
is delivered to GPStRs who need it.

INFORMATION SHARING
The KSS GP School has an extensive
process for informing GPStRs about any
relevant information. This can be done
through your ePortfolio, and we have a
process for briefing and informing your
Programme Directors and Educational
Supervisors through a reqular and
frequent electronic Bulletin. In addition,
we have an electronic newsletter which
is sent to GP Training Practice Managers,
Medical Education Managers and also to
others involved with GP Training.
WEBSITE
The GP School provides a lot of
information on the KSS GP Deanery
website (www.kssdeanery.org/general-
practice), with a number of useful
and important documents that can be
downloaded and printed off. The KSS
Guidance for GPStRs collates this in
handbook form. A part of the website
is reserved for GPStRs and provides
relevant information. You will be able to
share information through your GPStR
Committee.
SALARY
As a GPStR you will receive a salary in
line with the national guidance and the
basic salary for ST1 and ST2 grades, with
banding that is agreed by the employer
for that post according to the guidance.
Posts in GP are paid at ST3 level and
receive a 45% banding supplement.
The figures for GP placements are
published by the Department in the
annual amendments and updates to the
Schedules to Direction to Strategic Health
Authorities Concerning GP Registrars
(2003).
These figures are for basic salaries, and
your actual payment will be determined
by your employer.
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ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL
SUPPORT
You will be covered for medical indemnity
whilst working in a hospital post under
the Crown indemnity scheme. This
means that you will pay only a nominal
sum to the Defence Union. In the GP
placements, you have the responsibility
for organising your own cover and this
should be negotiated with your indemnity
organisation. The good news is that your
payments will be reimbursed by your
employing Practice during your ST3 year
and for any GP placements during the
ST1 & 2 training year.
You may be also eligible for relocation
expenses as a result of needing to move
to your new training post. If your new
employer is an Acute or Psychiatric Trust,
then KSS has reciprocal arrangements
with the London Deanery (because many
of the rotations for the other specialties
include London Hospitals) and their office
will deal with this. If your first post is in
GP, however, this will be dealt with at the
Practice and with the Primary Care Trust.
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DEFERMENT
Doctors who are given an offer of training
in the KSS GP School may defer the
start date of the offer, but only for the
statutory reasons that are congruent
with the guidance in the Guide to
Postgraduate Training in the UK (The Gold
Guide). These include maternity leave and
certified ill-health.
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LESS THAN FULL-TIME
TRAINING (LTFT)
The KSS GP School welcomes and
supports applications from doctors who
wish to train less than full-time.
Less than full time training can be from
50% of full-time. If you wish to train at
less than full-time you should contact
both the KSS GP Training Recruitment
Manager and the KSS LTFT Department
in order to have this organised. It is
very important that, if you wish to start
your training programme at less than
full time, you have obtained approval
for this beforehand. The GP School
works closely with the KSS Postgraduate
Deanery to support less than full-time
training in the hospital posts which
form part of a GP training programme
and has full responsibility for approving
this for training in the GP placements.
The KSS Deanery provides information
regarding eligibility and funding approval
for the hospital posts which are normally
undertaken either as job-shares (slot-
shares) with a colleague also training LTFT,
or in reduced sessions in a full-time post.
It is important to note that in order to
ensure that the skills and competencies of
all GP trainees continue to be developed,
the RCGP require that GPStRs on less
than full-time training will need to
undertake the same number of most of
the workplace based assessments for the
MRCGP and at the same frequency as
GPStRs training full-time.

SICKNESS LEAVE
Although the need to take prolonged
sickness leave is rare for our GPStRs, it
is an unfortunate fact of life that illness
can happen to anyone. In each of your
posts your employer will be the main
contact, and you will be expected to
provide appropriate medical evidence for
any period of sickness longer than the
statutory period that is covered by a self
certificate.
You will be paid whilst sick, up to the
maximum period allowed under the
regulations. In order to ensure that your
learning is not disadvantaged, you will
need to make up any time lost that is
greater than two weeks in any one year.
The KSS GP School will organise this in an
appropriate placement if it is not possible
to do this in the same post that you were
in when you went off sick.
The School will ensure that any GPStR
who has health problems that might
affect their training has full support, and
will ensure that Occupational Health
support is provided. We will also support
Trusts and GP Practices in making
appropriate adjustments to the training
timetable of any GPStR who would
benefit from this.
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TRANSFERS OUT OF PROGRAMME
Whilst undertaking your GP training in EXPERIENCE
KSS, your personal circumstances may
Out of Programme Experience is not
significantly change such that your
usual, and indeed not normally possible,
training is disadvantaged. As a result
for GPStRs, due to the short time scale of
you may wish to change the location
GP training. The KSS GP School however,
where you are training. The KSS GP
will favourably consider any appropriate
School will support appropriate requests
requests that are congruent with national
for training transfers, either between
guidance. In KSS we provide the complete
Deaneries or within the KSS GP School
training for general practice, so there will
area. The School commits to the national
be no need to gain experience in order
agreement that outlines this process, and
to successfully complete your training
will look favourably on all requests made
but, for instance, you may wish to gain
that are congruent with guidance and will
experience working with healthcare in
try to find placements. Transfer requests
a developing country. This may also be
that are approved can only take place if
possible, in exceptional circumstances, for
a suitable vacancy is available within KSS
a career break. You should discuss any
or an external Deanery (if the request
request with your Programme Director
is to transfer out of KSS). Requests for
before making this formally to the Head
transfers are considered twice a year in
of School. There is an application form
May and November, and normally are not
that is available from the GP Training
possible within the first year of training.
Recruitment Manager. You do need to
note that although if approved, KSS will
continue the training when you return,
but this may not be available in the area
where you were training previously. Out
of Programme time will be treated as
unpaid leave by the School.
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The RCGP GP Curriculum is for doctors
training for general practice and their
trainers and educational supervisors.
It covers the period known as
Specialty Training for General Practice:
from the end of the Foundation
Programme to the award of a
Certificate of Completion of Training
(CCT). It assumes GPStRs have already
attained the core competencies of
the Foundation Programme. As soon
as doctors are appointed to a GP
Training Programme they should
register with the RCGP in order to
be assigned an ePortfolio and to get
the appropriate information from the
RCGP.
GPStRs will be sent a copy of the GP
Curriculum core statement “Being a
General Practitioner”. Included with
it is a DVD containing all of the other
curriculum statements. This document
is an excellent introduction to and
overview of the nature of general
practice.
Further information and
documentation can be found on the
RCGP Curriculum Website
www.rcgp-curriculum.org.uk
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THE GP CURRICULUM
THE ePORTFOLIO THE MRCGP
The ePortfolio is the way in which GPs in The MRCGP is an integrated assessment
programme that includes three
training collect and collate their evidence
of learning and performance for the components:
MRCGP assessment. It offers an overview • Applied Knowledge Test (AKT),
of the current position on the journey
to CCT, as a complete record of their • Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA)
assessments. • Workplace-Based Assessment (WPBA)
However it is not just a collection of
Each of these is independent and will
assessments or a record of attainment.
test different skills but together they
The ePortfolio is above all a learning
will cover the curriculum for specialty
log, and each GPStR will have their own
training for general practice. Evidence for
learning log in which they can record
the workplace-based assessment will be
notes on significant clinical encounters,
collected in the e-Portfolio of each GPStR.
lectures attended, professional
conversations and any reading they have The AKT and CSA will be taken in the
done. Each item is personal to the GPStR third year, whilst in General Practice,
until such time as they permit it to be but the WPBA will span the full 3 year
shared. These learning entries can be programme.
tagged with a curriculum heading for
future searching and assessment. Two
entries are required per week.
On starting their Specialty Training
Programme for General Practice, GPStRs
will receive a unique log-in to their
personal ePortfolio. Training will be
provided on how to get started with this,
but GPStRs are encouraged to look at this
at the earliest opportunity and use the
available on-line help.

THE RCGP DOMAINS
OF COMPETENCE AND
ESSENTIAL FEATURES
You will see from the GP Curriculum that
the statements are organised around six
domains of core competencies and with
three essential features. These provide
the framework for the development of
the curriculum for general practice both
for the core competencies of the family
doctor, and also for specific content areas
in general practice. This can be illustrated
as a tree, with the six core competencies
being the branches and being fed by the
essential features as the roots:
These are summarised below:
THE SIX DOMAINS OF CORE
COMPETENCiES
1. Primary care management
2. Person-centred care
3. Specific problem-solving skills
4. A comprehensive approach
5. Community orientation
6. A holistic approach
The first three competencies have as their
focal point the primary contact between
the patient and doctor. These can be
explored during hospital specialty posts as
well as when in general practice.
The remaining competencies are more
complex and take a wider perspective,
going beyond the consulting room GP–
patient interaction. These will be explored
in more detail in the third year whilst in
general practice.
The essential features
As a person-centred scientific discipline,
the three essential features should be
considered as fundamental. These are:
1. Contextual - using the context of
the person, the family, the community
and their culture
2. Attitudinal - based on the doctor’s
professional capabilities, values and
ethics
3. Scientific - adopting a critical and
research-based approach to practice,
and maintaining this through
continuing learning and quality
improvement
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ASSESSMENT METHODS IN WPBA
Case Based Discussion (CBD)
This is a structured oral interview you will
have with your Clinical Supervisor while in
your hospital attachments and with your
Educational Supervisor/GP Trainer during
your General Practice attachment.
It is designed to test your professional
judgement across a range of competency
areas. By professional judgement we
mean how you have made holistic,
balanced and justifiable decisions
in consultations which were a little
uncertain or complicated. In other words
it is looking at whether you acted in
a safe and sensible way in a difficult
consultation.
In the ST1 and ST2 years you will
undertake a minimum of 6 Case Based
Discussions per year. You will select 2
cases one week before the assessment
and present them to your clinical
supervisor. The assessor will choose one
of the cases and will prepare questions to
ask you which will cover the competency
areas. A case based discussion should
take 20 minutes and you will also receive
10 minutes feedback at the end, when
your grades will be discussed
In the ST3 year, you will have to do a
minimum of 12 Case Based Discussions.
You will select 4 cases and present them
to your assessor one week before your
assessment. The assessor will choose
2 cases. The same format as above is
used with each complete Case Based
Discussion marking and feedback taking
30 minutes in total.
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Mini-CEX
This is observation of a clinical episode
of care. It will often be a registrar or your
consultant performing this, but might
also be a suitably trained nurse. In general
practice it is replaced by COT.
Consultation Observation
Tool COT
Consultation Skills Training is a central
part of GP Speciality training programme.
It will enable you to increase the amount
and quality of information you elicit from
patients, so improving the accuracy of
your diagnosis. You will learn to find out
the concerns of the patients as well as
their ideas about what might be wrong
and their expectations of you and your
help. This will allow you to employ
specific skills to reach a shared patient-
centred, relevant and workable treatment
plan. Improving your consulting skills is
about improving outcomes for patients.
The Consultation Observation Tool is
used with your trainer in your time in GP
to give you feedback on your progress
towards competence and then excellence
in consulting in the year. It is best done
using a video recording of a (consented)
consultation with a patient. It will help
you identify your learning needs. It is likely
that early in the year many of the areas
will be graded “Needs Improvement”.
Arranging a COT early will help you
identify which areas you need to work on.
By the end of the year you should be able
to hit “Competent” in all the areas that
you need to in a particular consultation.
Consultations vary in complexity and
content so you will normally not cover all
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competencies in any one consultation.
By month 10 in GP you should have
demonstrated competence in each area
a couple of times, at least, so that your
trainer is confident that you can.
Our advice is to start videoing early after
you have been consulting approximately
1 month. Do videos regularly and
learn how to observe and analyse
consultations in detail; read through the
“Detailed Descriptors of Competencies”
on the college website; bear in mind
the definitions of ‘Competence’ and
‘Excellence’. You will need to do much
more videos than the 12 COTs in the year.
This will also help you rehearse for the
Clinical Skills Assessment.
PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST GAIN PATIENT’S
CONSENT FOR VIDEO. The sample
consent forms are on the RCGP website.
The videos you use for COT should be
kept with the consent forms for 3 years
in a locked cupboard in the Practice (if
tapes) or if electronic files on a secure and
security protected computer/server.
Direct Observation of Procedural
Skills (DOPS)
DOPS is designed to provide feedback
on procedural skills essential to the
provision of good clinical care. The
mandatory procedures chosen have been
selected as sufficiently important and/or
technically demanding to warrant specific
assessment. GPStRs will be asked to
undertake observed encounters during
the three years with a different observer
for each encounter. Each DOPS should
represent a different procedure. The
doctor in training chooses the timing,
procedure and observer.
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There are 8 mandatory procedures to Multi Source Feedback (MSF) Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire
be covered: When learning, it is always useful to get (PSQ)
Some of these procedures may be feedback from different sources. It helps This looks at patients’ views of how
combined e.g. prostate and rectal us to reflect and continuously improve. It empathic you were during their
examinations. also feeds back to our ability to work in consultation. The CARE questionnaire is
a team. used. It is completed in General Practice
Breast Male genital MSF is done TWICE in ST1, one prior to only. This therefore may only be done
examination examination each 6 month review. Five clinicians need once in your ST3 year, but if you have a
Female genital Rectal to answer 2 questions. These ask for their 4-month attachment to General Practice
examination examination assessment of your overall professional in either your ST1 or ST2 year, it will
behaviour and for their assessment of also need to be done then too. You
Prostate Cervical only complete the PSQ once in your first
your overall clinical performance.
examination cytology two years, even if you have a 4 month
The RCGP have strict rules on how an
Simple Blood MSF must be carried out. attachment in General Practice in both
Dressings glucose your ST1 and ST2 training years.
Via your ePortfolio, you produce a ticket
code and web address which you give The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire is
to 5 clinicians. They must go into the handed out to 40 consecutive patients in
There are 9 optional procedures which GP and the results added electronically
website and complete the assessment
should be recorded, if undertaken: to the RCGP website by the practice
within a 6 week period. The results can
only be amalgamated if this 6 week manager. The RCGP will produce a report
Curettage/Shave deadline is followed. It is therefore that appears in your portfolio. You should
Cryotherapy
excision probably advisable to ask 6 clinicians to discuss this with your GP Trainer along
Incision and complete the assessment just in case one with the MSF.
Cauterisation drainage of of them isn’t able to do so. You will need to arrange this with the
abscess The MSF is not required for the ST2 year, help of your practice manager and GP
but is needed again in ST3; both at the Trainer. Forms are available through the
Aspiration of Excision of skin
30-month and 34-month review. In the ePortfolio.
effusion lesions
ST3 year, 5 clinicians complete both The PSQ in ST3 is carried out between
Hormone months 31-34 of your training.
questions as before, but also 5 non-
Joint and peri- replacement
clinicians. The 5 non-clinicians are just
articular injections implants of all
asked to assess your overall professional
types/any types
behaviour. Again it is probably advisable,
if possible, to ask more than 10 people
Proctoscopy
on each occasion to complete the
assessment for you.

DOPS can only be assessed by a senior

clinician or consultant not by a fellow
peer.
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GLOSSARY
Term Explanation
AKT Applied Knowledge Test - part of the MRCGP.

ARCP Annual review of competency progression. This formal review takes place each year for every GPStR
and will generate one of a number of outcomes. A satisfactory outcome permits progress to the next
year, and the final satisfactory outcome allows the CCT to be obtained.
Associate GP Dean A member of the main GP Deanery Team. Patch Associate Deans are the next level of support for all
the GP Training Programme Directors and GP Trainers in the patch, which is normally the east or west
of each county.
CCT Certificate of completion of training. This will be issued to you by the GMC at the end of your training, provided
you have successfully completed the assessments and been signed off in your final ARCP.
CEGPR Certificate of Eligibility for the GP Register. This is the alternative certificate given to GPStRs who have
completed their training using evidence from posts that are not part of a full GP training programme.
This will not apply to GPStRs who are doing a full three year training programme.
Clinical Supervisor This is normally a hospital consultant who will be responsible for ensuring the appropriateness of GP
experience in any Hospital Specialty Post for the GPStR (particularly with reference to patient safety and level
of competence) and for facilitating the workplace-based assessments for the GPStRs. In GP Placement the
GP Trainer will combine the roles of Clinical Supervisor and Educational Supervisor.
CSA Clinical Skills Assessment - part of the MRCPG.

Educational Supervisor Each GPStR has a nominated Educational Supervisor who will support their learning progress through
their three year programme (including both hospital posts and GP posts) and monitor and sign off their
learning in the ePortfolio. This is often, but not always, the same GP Trainer throughout the three
years. Additional Educational Supervisors may be provided by the GP School when there is an identified
need for the GPStR.
GMC General Medical Council. This is the statutory competent authority that determines the way that all
Postgraduate Medical Specialty training is carried out in the UK. The GMC awards GPStRs with a CCT
(Certificate of Completion of Training), or a CEGPR (Certificate of Eligibility for the GP Register).
GPStR General Practice Speciality Training Registrar

GPST General Practice Speciality Training

ITP Integrated Training Post. (These posts are GP based posts that include sessions each week in a specialty
department, community clinic, or Primary Care Trust).
LFG Local Faculty Group

MRCGP Membership of the Royal College of General Practitioner. Membership is gained by successfully
completing a three year programme of assessments in the workplace (WPBA) and two final external
assessments (AKT & CSA).
OOH Out of hours. In general practice, cover for patients between the hours of 6.30pm and 8.00 am
is provided by Out of Hours organisations. GPStRs in their GP placements have sessions in these
organisations, normally at the rate of a 6 hour shift every month.
PDP Personal Development Plan

PMETB Postgraduate Medical Training and Education Board. This was the organisation that previously carried
out the Medical Education Regulatory functions now carried out by the GMC.
Programme Director The GP training programmes in each locality are supported by a team of Programme Directors. These
are normally GP Trainers who have undergone further educational development for this role. Some
schemes have individuals who are not doctors but have a university role and particular expertise in
medical education. The Programme Directors support not only the group of GPStRs in that locality but
also the group of GP Trainers linked to that locality.
RCGP Royal College of General Practitioners. The College defines the MRCGP which all GPStRs need to have
successfully completed in order to proceed to be registered on the specialist register of the GMC.
ST1/ST2/ST3 Speciality Training years one, two or three. ST1 and ST2 incorporate hospital placement and some GP
Placement. The ST3 year is spent entirely in GP.
WPBA Workplace Based Assessments

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About Kent
Kent is the “Garden of England”
famous for its orchards and hop
gardens, its history and its proximity
to Europe. As well as extensive rural
and countryside areas, Kent also has
densely populated towns and cities,
and a beautiful coastline.
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Administratively, Kent is split into two
Patches by KSS, East Kent and Medway
and West Kent. There are two Associate
GP Deans for Kent, Dr Kim Stillman for
East Kent and Medway and Dr Deborah
Taylor for West Kent. Apart from their
work for the Deanery, they are GPs. The
Associate GP Deans are supported by
the Kent Patch Manager, Julie Coulson,
who is based full-time at the KSS Deanery
Office in London Bridge.
In East Kent, which functions as a
single GP Training Programme area, the
town of Ashford has the advantage of
an International Rail link connecting
it to London and continental Europe.
Canterbury is a site of national historical
interest with a beautiful cathedral.
“ Charles Dickens is closely
“
associated with the
area and there is a fine
maritime history.
The coastal area is increasingly being
developed and towns along the Thames
Estuary are popular with those living in
the capital and offer a range of shopping
and dining experiences, whilst Dover
provides ferry links to Europe. Margate is
a traditional seaside town, and will soon
host a new art gallery to celebrate the
work of JMW Turner who painted here.
In Medway the training scheme
encompasses the historic Medway towns
and surrounding semi-rural countryside.
In the West Kent Patch, there are GP
Training Programme areas centred around
Dartford, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells.
Dartford and Gravesend lie where the
Garden of England meets London – only
20 miles away from the capital.
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Tunbridge Wells is an attractive spa town,

and Maidstone is the county town and
has a good range of entertainment and
shopping. The Medway towns form an
up and coming area with good links to
London and great shopping in Bluewater
and Lakeside (just over the Thames).
The Isle of Sheppey is a quaint seaside
location.
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About East Kent
East Kent is diverse. It has areas
of open countryside, large towns
including Ashford, Folkestone and
Dover. The coastal areas include the
towns of Dymchurch and Hythe, and
the Romney Marshes. The population
of the East Kent coastal towns is
swollen by tourists in the summer
months. The East Kent coast is a
popular holiday destination. Margate
is becoming increasingly popular as
a London commuter town. Dover
Castle, one of the largest castles
in the country, was still in use as a
military base until the end of Second
World War.
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East Kent hosts one GP Training
Programme. As this is large, the training
locations are clustered round the three
main hospitals in East Kent.
About the East Kent GP Training Programme
The East Kent Vocational Training Scheme
utilises the three local hospitals - the
Kent and Canterbury Hospital (K&CH) in
Canterbury, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother hospital (QEQM) in Margate and
the William Harvey hospital in Ashford.
It links in with training practices in all
three areas. You will spend 18 months in
hospital posts and 18 months in General
Practice. We will help you along the way
but we expect you to be able to learn
independently as well as a team member.
There will be lunchtime meetings held on
each of the three hospital sites K&CH at
Canterbury, QEQM at Margate and the
William Harvey Hospital at Ashford. On
Wednesdays between 12:30 and 14:00,
you will meet as a group in your local
hospital.
We hold these meetings every week both
in and out of term time. There is an open
agenda which is directed by the learning
needs of the GPStRs. We often cover hot
topics, role play, case-based discussion
and critical reading. It is expected that
everyone within the scheme will attend.
ST3s meet for 10 sessions per term, three
terms per year on a Wednesday afternoon
or all day, for planned learning. The
lunchtime session is led by a Programme
Director. These are useful sessions where
STs undertake to produce and present
a topic such as a NICE guideline. The
most recent sessions have included DVLA
and medical restrictions, the NICE lipid
guidelines, depression, CKD and sickness
certification.
The most recent term programme for
the ST3s, which was put together in
consultation with the ST3s included such
diverse subjects as cardiology, spirituality,
ophthalmology and child protection.
Previous sessions have included: Acute red
eye, Referrals, The doctor’s bag, STD Q
& A, Resistent hypertension, Ethics in GP,
Heart failure, Epilepsy, Child protection,
Dealing with Heartsinks, Tired all the time,
Atrial Fibrillation, Sickness certification,
Statistics, Parkinsons disease, Examination
of joints, Chronic Kidney Disease,
Syncope, Debono’ Sixhats, Palpitations,
Dermatology, Patient centeredness, 3
minute neuro exam, ENT for General
Practice, Rapid Access Criteria, Dementia,
GP adult psychiatry, Understanding lung

function tests, Dizziness, Peak flow charts,
Allergy information, Inhaler technique.
Most rotations now include 4 months in
a training practice or in a practice moving
towards training. The GP has had special
training as an Educational Supervisor.
We are currently developing ITPs which
will include time spent with the Primary
Care Trust as well as a number of other
possibilities.
We have a two day residential
conference for all of our ST3s which is
both educational and great fun. GPStRs
frequently meet for social events arranged
by the group.
We recognise the importance of passing
the external components of the nMRCGP
and so are developing local training
courses to aid candidates in passing the
AKT and the CSA examinations.
The Programme Directors in the East Kent
GP Training Programme Area are:
Dr Jane Arnott
Jane has a nursing, midwifery and
health visiting background. She’s been
in Higher Education for four years and
has a Masters in Public Health. She was
seconded into the Programme Director’s
Post in September 2008 from Canterbury
Christ Church University. She has a
responsibility for placement allocation
and the development of Integrated
Training Placements. She jointly leads the
Canterbury GP Trainers’ Group and works
with the other Programme Directors to
support the education programme for the
ST3 GPStRs.
Dr Allan Fox
Allan is a GP Trainer and Programme
Director with a particular interest in the
AKT and CSA. He is currently training as
a CSA assessor and developing an aid to
the AKT. He is a partner in Wye surgery
and a fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians and a member of the Royal
College of General Practitioners.
Dr Joanna Collyer
Joanna is a Programme director and full
time GP in Aylesham, Canterbury. She
has been on the GP Training Programme
in Canterbury but finished before the
current changes. Joanna has now
completed the Postgraduate Certificate
in Medical Education. She practises
holistically and uses alternative medicine
such as acupuncture.
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Dr David Hindmarsh
David is a GP Trainer, Programme Director
and co-author of the infamous Dr
Hairy’s Guide to the GP Curriculum. He
is interested in the use of story telling in
learning, and the importance of balance
between evidence based medicine and
values based medicine and ethics in
teaching and learning. He is hoping to
become a CSA assessor, lose weight, and
write a book about teaching and learning
the GP Curriculum .
Dr Graham Joy
Graham is a GP Trainer, Programme
director and full time GP in Margate.
He also has an interest in supporting
underperforming doctors. Graham passed
his MRCGP earlier this year.
Dr Greg Manson
Greg is a GP Trainer, Programme
Director, GP appraiser and full time GP
in Canterbury. He is also a cognitive and
behavioural psychotherapist. His main
areas of interest in medical education
are in assessment and evaluation. He has
assisted local GP registrar membership
revision groups for the past few years.
In addition to teaching on his local
VTS programme, he assists trainees in
difficulty.
Dr Stephanie de Giorgio
Stephanie is a part time salaried GP
in Margate and a recently appointed
Programme Director. Trained on the East
Kent VTS and sat the new exam format,
so has a good understanding of what
it entails. Professional interests include
women’s and sexual health. Lives locally
and believes that the VTS should be
sociable as well as educational… she
should know, soon to marry a fellow East
Kent VTS trainee!
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About Medway
The five Medway towns of Strood,
Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and
Rainham possess an exceptional
geography, a rich heritage, a dynamic,
creative population and a resurgent
economy. The population of the
Medway towns is approximately
250,000.
Strood’s name derives from an Old
English word for marshy river bank.
It lies on the north-west bank of the
Medway at its lowest bridging point,
breaching the chalky hills of the North
Downs. It is now mainly a residential
suburb of Rochester and a commuter
town for London. Rochester, Strood
and Frindsbury grew because of the
river activity and the important road
and rail links that used the bridge
linking the town with Rochester.
On the east side of the Medway
opposite Strood, Rochester is known
for its cathedral and castle and has
for centuries been of great strategic
importance. Its fortification down the
ages protected the crossing of the
Medway and the route to London.
Rochester has always governed the
land on the Strood side of the Medway.
The town was Charles Dickens’
favourite.
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Chatham has strong historical links
to the Navy and the dockyards have
become an interesting museum. The
Chatham Dockyard area is currently
bidding for a World Heritage Site
status. Rainham was a separate village
until it was added to Gillingham in
1928. It sits on the northern slope of
the North Downs and is bounded to
the south by the M2. The arrival of the
railway in 1858 spurred its growth,
and again when this was electrified in
1959. The Medway towns are bordered
by the rural areas of Hoo, Cliffe and
the Isle of Grain to the west, and the
area to the east known as Swale which
includes Sittingbourne and the Isle of
Sheppey. In total these surrounding
areas have a population of over
100,000, and this can swell by a further
30,000 people, holidaying or visiting
the Isle of Sheppey, during the summer
months.
GP Training in the Medway area is
centred around Medway Maritime
Hospital.
About the Medway GP
Training Programme
The Medway towns have excellent rail and
road links and are located within 40 minute
high speed rail commute to London. We
are in the heart of the Thames gateway
development, with good local schools and
affordable, attractive new housing.
The Medway GP training programme has
a friendly group of dynamic programme
directors that tackle a wide variety of
topics relevant to general practice life and
training. We offer interdependent peer
support through the training years as well
as expert teaching from a wide variety of
external speakers. Our aim is to engage
in supportive, collaborative, fun general
practice education. From August 2010 we
will have 8 ITPs in community paediatrics,
obstetrics & gynaecology, psychiatry,
dermatology, GUM and palliative care. We
aim to have the majority of GPStRs doing
8 months in GP in ITPs during their first 2
years of training.
The programme offers regular lunch time
lectures and support for all ST1’s and ST2’s
and a curriculum linked ST3’s programme
based at Canterbury Christ Church University
at Medway or within the Post Graduate
Education Centre at Medway Maritime
Hospital Postgraduate Education Centre.
Our GP Training Programme group
rules are:
• To respect and support others
• To engage in the learning programme
• To be considerate
• T o allow time to bring difficult cases
to discuss
• To review hot topics
• T o have a holistic approach to general
practice
• To have a mid-session break

Our Model of Learning:
In the Medway VTS programme we adopt
a variety of learning approaches. These
include web-based, CDs, ward based
clinical teaching, exposure to outpatients
and theatres at the appropriate identified
level, group learning, private study,
courses, reflective practice, audit projects,
regular teaching specific to year and
specialty, but also multi-specialty if
appropriate. Above all this is a ‘trainee
centred’ approach to learning with
you at the centre of the learning cycle
taking responsibility for identifying your
own learning needs and sourcing the
opportunities to meet those needs,.
Past sessions information can be found on
our Website www.medwayvts.com
Some of our previous sessions have
included:
CSA practice session with patient
simulators and CSA assessors
Question time with a CSA examiner
Community Respiratory Team
GPStRs’ presentation re COPD/Spirometry
diagnosis – practical session
ENT Dr Jeremy Davis (presentation notes)
GPStRs’ talk re Travellers’ Diarrhoea
GPStRs’ Case Presentation re HSP
Talk re drugs and alcohol and local
services
Session at university practical demonstration
of study skills and e-searches
ST presentation re delirium
Improvisation Skills development
Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence
sessions
We also run a yearly residential for our
GPStRs in their ST3 placements and have
regular away days during the term. For
example, we have a visit planned to the
Herb Garret and old operating theatre
Museum at the old St Thomas’s Hospital.
We have the benefit of Peter Milburn’s
input as an educationalist. Peter also
works at Canterbury Christ Church
University in Medway, which also gives us
access to their extensive facilities.
Employment Opportunities
On qualification doctors from the
Medway VTS have excellent opportunity
to gain employment in a progressive,
dynamic practice – 80% of the ‘class’ of
2009 are now employed in their practice
of choice
Extracts from the latest Deanery
Inspection...
“excellent training experience
opportunities”
“very well organised”
“Programme Directors praised for
excellent support and organisational
skills”
Comment from a ST3…
“Medway has a well organised teaching
programme which gave me direction, a
better understanding of effective learning
and managing my e-portfolio. The venue
for the “away” seminar was fantastic
and a great opportunity to bond with
colleagues. Lots of useful tips for the CSA
exam !!!!!!!”
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GP Programme
Directors in THE
MEDWAY GP Training
Area Are:
Dr Tariq Hussain GP
Dr Hussain is a GP Principal and a trainer
at Downs Way Medical Practice. He
qualified in 2000 from Guy’s and St
Thomas’s Hospitals. He has a background
in medical education and an MSc in
Primary Health Care. He supports the
champions, Chelsea F.C.
Peter Milburn, Educationalist
Peter is a Principal Lecturer in Medical
Imaging and Director of the Medway
Campus for Canterbury Christ Church
University. His research interests relate to
person-centrered collaborative practice
and has written widely within the field
of interprofessional education and
medical imaging. As the former Director
of Undergraduate Interprofessional
Education Peter led the Universities’
first pre-registration interprofessional
programme bringing together nine
separate professions within one common
programme of study.
Dr Mayur Vibhuti GP
Mayur graduated from King’s College
London and is a GP partner in Chatham.
Having grown up in the Medway area
he has an extensive local knowledge and
a healthy passion for teaching. He has
the added advantage of undertaking the
nMRCGP himself. Mayur enjoys playing
football, tennis and surfing and, crucially,
also supports the mighty Chelsea.
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West Kent
DARTFORD

About Dartford About the Dartford GP Training Programme

Dartford is situated 20 miles to Since 2000 the Dartford scheme has been We have 4 ITP posts: Palliative care/GP
the east of London on the bank of based at the state of the art Darent Valley (based at Lions Hospice, Northfleet),
the river Thames, on the border of Hospital overlooking the Thames. The orthopaedics/GP (based at DVH),
Kent, London and Essex. Dartford scheme began in 1971 with 2 training Cardiology/GP (based at DVH), and GUM/
is the perfect location to access posts per year, moved to 3 in the 1980s GP (based at DVH). Each post is for 4
both the bright lights of London and now has 14. Jobs in medicine, elderly months. On average each week 2 days
and the wildlife of the countryside. care, obs/gynae, paediatrics, A&E are part are spent in practice and 2 days in the
The Borough of Dartford comprises of our programme and psychiatry can be hospital post.
the town of Dartford and eight accessed (at nearby Littlebrook Hospital). GPStRs and trainers go for a team meal
surrounding parishes. We encourage brief attachments to other at the start of the course. We try and
Originally a Roman settlement, disciplines, often arranged in the ST3 year. arrange one or two trips out per year
Dartford is an old market town with a The Training practices are in a variety of (galleries/museums/projects), the most
rich industrial heritage. It now boasts town and country settings . recent trip was to the National Gallery.
one of the largest shopping centres
GPStRs meet on Wednesday afternoons, We usually finish with a BBQ or similar.
in Europe and has direct links to the
for 30 weeks of the year, at the Phillip GPStRs organise their own activities
continent with the development of
Farrant Medical Education Centre, Darent from time to time. A 2 day residential
the International railway station at
Valley Hospital. We try to cover most course is organised for GPStRs at the
Ebbsfleet.
curriculum areas over the year in a learner start of their ST3 year. This takes place
Dartford is at the heart of one of
led, interactive way using additional in the lovely environment of Bore Place
the Government’s key growth zones
expert resources where appropriate. near Sevenoaks. ‘Can’t we do this more
within the Thames Gateway and will
often?’ is the usual request!
see around 20,000 new homes and
up to 50,000 new jobs created in the
borough over the next 25 years – a
substantial addition to the existing
80,000 residents in the Borough.
Dartford is proud of its heritage and
has many notable buildings.
To the south of the town lie a number
of beautiful and ancient villages,
each of which has its own links with
English history.

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THE Programme
Directors in THE
Dartford GP Training
Area Are:
Dr John Luffingham
John has been a GP in Longfield since
1984 with interests in medical education,
cardiovascular medicine, diabetes and
men’s health. He has been a trainer for 12
years, and an appraiser since the start of
GP appraisals. Interests outside medicine
include rugby, tennis and music.

Dr David Corbett
David has been a GP in a Dartford Practice
since 1984. He has completed sabbaticals
in Canada and Australia. He spent 6
months as staff grade in palliative care
2005. He continues as a GP appraiser.
David has been a GP Trainer since 1989
and a Programme Director since 1991.

Dr Dermot O’Connor
Dermot is a Senior partner at a GP
Practice in Gravesend, with an interest in
Cryosurgery. He has been a GP Trainer for
several years.
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About Maidstone
Maidstone is the county town of
Kent 32 miles SE of London which
is easily accessible by road and rail
(about 50-60 min). The Medway runs
through the town centre. Historically
the route of much of the town’s trade,
it is now better known for its River
Festival and water sports. The town
has a population of about 75,000 and
as such supports a theatre, cinema,
restaurants and night life. The seaside
and ports to the continent are also
easily accessible from Maidstone as
is the beautiful Kent countryside for
pubs, walks and historic houses such
as Sissinghurst and Leeds Castle.
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About the Maidstone GP Training Programme
The Maidstone scheme remains largely
based around the Maidstone hospital
and, as such, over the 3 year scheme you
will soon get to know your colleagues
and build up a good support network to
help you through your MRCGP and the 3
year rotation.
Our mix of jobs is directly relevant to the
MRCGP curriculum and will help you
build your confidence in handling the
conditions you will encounter in your
registrar (ST3) year.
Those currently in general practice (ST3)
meet on a Wednesday afternoon over
3 terms of 10 weeks and form a tight
knit group, having already got to know
each other in hospital rotations. There
is a residential during the ST3 year to
encourage team building and trust,
enabling you to work together for mutual
support and learning.
Small group work is also done in the
ST1 and ST2 years in each term, with
topics for example on consulting skills
and chronic disease management. This is
usually about 1 session in each term.
We meet at the Maidstone Hospital
Postgraduate Centre for the regular
Wednesday afternoon sessions, though
ad hoc arrangements are made if meeting
with other GPStRs, for example a visit to a
local homeopathic/ Steiner based practice.
Our programme can be viewed on our
website www.maidstonegptraining.org.
The programme includes topics chosen
by GPStRs and these are often presented
by them too. We have consultants who
present their chosen specialties and we
look at the problems that might arise in
the general practice settings. Hot topics
are discussed and it is a useful forum
for discussion about difficult patients
or problems, when peer support can be
very beneficial. GPStRs form small groups
in order to work together on topics
for the CSA. We promote debate and
discussion for group learning. There is
often additional coaching to small groups
or individuals approaching the externally
marked nMRCGP modules especially the
CSA. One of the course organisers is an
examiner and will help and support you
through the CSA and other modules of
the exam, in addition to the support you
will get from your GP Trainer.

During the ST1 and ST2 years you will
have the opportunity of educational days
in the GP practice of your Educational
Supervisor. This is usually the same GP
Trainer as in your ST3 year, and allows
time to review your e-Portfolio as well
as maintaining the context and frame of
reference of general practice aligned with
your current post. Currently you will have
one of your six posts in ST1 and ST2 years
spent in general practice, again where
possible in the same Practice as in your
final ST3 year.
There is a GP study day organised for the
ST1and 2s during each 4 month rotation
in the hospital posts, in order to help keep
you in touch with the GP curriculum and
your progress with the workplace based
assessments.
We have meals out and celebrations to
mark special events. We also have a long
weekend away to places such as Eastwell
Manor near Ashford, or centres in Wales,
Cornwall or Centre Parks to participate
in various team building activities. We
even have a video of our own version of
‘The Apprentice’ filmed in Cornwall! The
diversity of our group is reflected in the
trips and events we organise.
Our scheme is relatively small so you
quickly feel at home and integrated,
and we look forward to welcoming your
contribution to our training programme.
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The Programme Directors in the Maidstone
GP Training Area Are:
Dr Jonty West Dr Mike Strachan
Jonty is newly appointed to the Mike supports the GP Trainers group
Programme Director team at Maidstone. as well as providing teaching and
He has been a GP trainer at West Malling organisational support to the training
Group Practice for two years, having also programme, especially at ST1/ST2 level.
been involved in supervising Foundation He has been a GP Trainer for 19 years in
year 2 doctors. a town centre Practice with two other
trainers in the practice. In addition to
GPStRs, there are other learners at the
Dr Richard Laurent
practice such as medical students, doctors
Richard oversees the rotas and in the second year of Foundation training
placements of the scheme and runs (which he also oversees for the area)
the Wednesday afternoon GP Training
Programme of teaching, He has a
particular interest in evidence based
learning. He is a GP Appraiser. His Practice
has other GP Trainers at foundation and
GP registrar level. Watch for his cycle
parked outside the Medical Education
Centre on a Wednesday afternoon.
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About TUNBRIDGE
WELLS
This Georgian Spa town is a great
place to live and work, surrounded by
unspoilt countryside and within an
hour’s reach of both central London
and the south coast. Many members
of the VTS have returned to Tunbridge
Wells having had a very positive
experience here as medical students
and junior doctors: a large proportion
of local GPs are graduates of our
scheme. The Tunbridge Wells area
offers something for everyone with
beautiful parks, a vibrant arts and
cultural scene, Michelin starred cuisine,
good local schools, and the legendary
Da Vinci’s Nite Club. Shopaholics are
well provided for, with high street
chains and more eclectic shops in the
old town and Pantiles. You can even
get to Bluewater in under an hour!
For those with sporting inclinations
there are numerous walking and
off-road cycling routes; more unusual
recreational tastes are catered for with
dry-slope skiing, sailing at Bewl Water
and climbing at Harrison’s Rocks.
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TUNBRIDGE WELLS
About the TUNBRIDGE WELLS GP Training
Programme
The Tunbridge Wells Programme is
based at the Postgraduate Centre of
the Kent and Sussex Hospital with some
ST1 and ST2 jobs based at Pembury
and Maidstone Hospitals. In addition
to the major specialties of Medicine,
A&E, Paediatrics and O&G, training
opportunities for ST1s and ST2s may
also include Psychiatry and a specially
designed post that includes experience in
Dermatology, ENT and Ophthalmology.
We are also lucky enough to have a
post at the Hospice in the Weald where
some Trainees get invaluable experience
in Palliative Care. All Trainees will get 8
months in GP in their first two years on
the VTS. GP placements occur at our
16 training practices, most of which are
in the towns of Tunbridge Wells and
Tonbridge.
The learning set for VTS teaching occurs
on Wednesday afternoons and takes
place at the Postgraduate Centre of the
Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge
Wells. Responding to feedback from
our ST3s, the programme is congruent
with the RCGP Curriculum but is now
divided into three phases: “Knowledge,
Skills and Attitude”. This is to enable
the teaching programme to mirror the
changing learning needs and assessments
as the ST3 year progresses. We are very
fortunate to be able to call upon local
RCGP examiners to lead sessions on
consulting skills which has been found
to be helpful in preparing for the CSA
module of MRCGP. The VTS also strives to
help Trainees prepare for the competitive
job-market with sessions on CVs and
interview skills.
Some of the more challenging areas arise
from looking at ourselves as doctors,
our interaction with patients in the
consultation and our multiple roles as
autonomous practitioner, team-member,
prescriber, gate-keeper, ethicist, employer
or employee. Often there aren’t right or
wrong answers, but we hope the VTS
will challenge you and help develop the
skills to find your own unique position.
So whilst you may be stretched, we strive
to ensure a relaxed, supportive and fun
environment.
The teaching programme is complimented
by our website www.tunbridgewellsvts.
org.uk which we are very proud of!
Trainees are able to keep up-to-date with
VTS news and there is a superb archive of
teaching sessions and presentations for
Trainees to download.
The Programme Directors strive to
respond to the needs of the VTS Trainees.
In the past ST1 and ST2s reported a sense
of isolation in their hospital time so we
instigated regular teaching sessions to
which all the VTS ST1 and ST2s are invited
and these have received great feedback.
How important is the social side of
the VTS? Depends who you ask really.
Training in General Practice can be quite
isolating at times. Whilst teamwork is
vital, most of the working day is spent
with patients alone. Moving through
hospital posts can also feel like a nomadic
existence. Thankfully, most Wednesday
afternoons will end with someone
suggesting a drink in the pub and this is
a great way to have some mutual support
and fun.

We strive to ensure the years integrate
and in addition to the annual Christmas
meal, evenings out are organised from
time to time and special occasions are
celebrated.
The VTS runs an annual Residential which
is an opportunity to learn together in a
more relaxed and creative environment.
Brighton is a favourite haunt and the
Programme Directors have even been
spotted treading on Trainees’ toes at the
Funky Fish nightclub.
The Programme Directors in the TUNBRIDGE
WELLS GP Training Area Are:
Ms Siobhan Atherley
Siobhan is a Senior Lecturer at Canterbury
Christ Church University and has a
background in Primary Care Nursing. She
has been involved in Health Professional
Education for a number of years working
as a Senior Lecturer in Brighton University
and as an Open University Tutor. She
became a GP PD in 2010 as part of the
KSS Deanery’s Strategic Plan to facilitate
Inter-Professional Development and
Working. She trained at St.Thomas’s
Hospital 1981 and did her PGCEA at
Surrey University in 1991. Siobhan has
a first degree in Social Science and a
Master’s in Health and Public Policy.
Siobhan also graduated from South
Bank in 1986 with the Higher Diploma in
Health Visiting. Siobhan is an enthusiastic
tennis player and cycles to keep fit.
She enjoys travel, history and reading.
She’s not into football but appreciates
competitive sports.
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Dr Rahul Joshi
Rahul trained at St Mary’s and is a graduate
of the Tunbridge Wells VTS. He joined
his training practice as a partner in 2002
and became a Trainer and Programme
Director in 2005. In 2008, he completed
the Postgraduate Certificate in Medical
Education. He enjoys music, film and
theatre and watching the mighty Arsenal.
Dr Richard Estall
Richard qualified from Oxford and Bart’s
in 1992, and subsequently did his GP
training on the Royal Free VTS. He moved
to Kent in June 2008 and is now a 3/4
time partner in Marden. He became a
Programme Director in 2008. His interests
include sport of all types, but the current
obsession is cycling, which is his excuse
for the odd appearance at the Medical
Education Centre wearing lycra! He
supports… Arsenal!
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KENT LOCAL EDUCATION

PROVIDERS

There are a number of Local Education The Local Education Providers in Kent are:
Providers (e.g. Acute NHS Hospital
Trusts, NHS Psychiatric Trusts) in Kent
that provide placements for GPStRs Dartford & The Lions Hospice,
in the KSS GP School Placements Gravesham NHS Trust Gravesend (Hospice)
in hospital posts are currently of 4
• Darent Valley Hospital
months duration.
MAIDSTONE &
East Kent HOSPITALS TUNBRIDGE WELLS NHS
UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST
FOUNDATION TRUST: • Pembury Site
• William Harvey Hospital Ashford • Maidstone Hospital
• Q
 ueen Elizabeth Queen Mother
Hospital Margate
• K
 ent and Canterbury Hospital
Medway NHS
Canterbury Foundation Trust
• Medway Maritime Hospital

Kent and Medway

NHS & SOCIAL CARE Pilgrims Hospice,
Partnership Trust Canterbury (Hospice)
(Psychiatry)
• Bridge House The range of hospital posts included
• Chatham CMHT in the programmes:
• Kingswood Accident and Emergency; Paediatrics;
• St Martin’s Hospital Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Palliative
Care; Trauma and Orthopaedics;
• Priority House
Ophthalmology; Rheumatology; Psychiatry;
• St Bartholemew’s Hospital, Rochester General Medicine; Endocrinology and
• St Martin’s Hospital, Canterbury Diabetes; Cardiology; Respiratory Medicine;
• Stone House Hospital Gastroenterology and Stroke Care
• T onbridge Community Mental More information about the Trusts
Health Team and hospitals appears below with the
GP Training programmes they provide
placements for.

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DARTFORD & GRAVESHAM

NHS TRUST
Darent Valley Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Dartford

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address The Trust is fully committed to training
Darent Valley Hospital and development all of its staff and has
Darenth Wood Road strong links with Guys, Kings and St
Dartford Thomas’ Medical School, the Universities
Kent DA2 8DA of Greenwich and Canterbury, and the
South Thames Foundation School.
The Trust’s library, besides having a good
Switchboard
stock of journals and text books, offers
Telephone Number regular courses in critical appraisal and
01322 428100 literature search, and PCs for internet
access. The Trust is also committed to
Website research and, for those GPStRs who
www.dvh.nhs.uk wish to participate, our Research and
Development Committee and its manager
would be happy to advice. The Trust’s
Medical Education Centre with its
interactive white boards has AV linkage
to its theatres and endoscopy suites,
and also hosts regular Royal Society of
Medicine (RSM) meetings, basic surgical
skills training courses, laparoscopic
courses, and GP courses.

Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Paul Key
Head of Medical Education and Staffing
Mrs Claire Nottage
Training Programme Directors
Dr David Corbett
Dr John Luffingham
Dr Dermot O’Connor

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EAST KENT HOSPITALS
UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST
Kent & Canterbury Hospital
GP Training Programme area: East Kent
Overview of Training at the Trust
Address East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust
Ethelbert Road is one of the largest hospital Trusts in
Canterbury the country, with more than 6,000 staff
Kent CT1 3NG serving a population exceeding 700,000
and provides integrated patient care in
East Kent with over 80 clinical specialities.
Switchboard Established on 1st April 1999, East Kent
Telephone Number Hospitals University NHS Trust has three
01227 766877 acute hospitals at Canterbury, Ashford
and Margate, with smaller hospitals in
Website Dover and Folkestone. The Trust has
invested in an extensive development
www.ekht.nhs.uk programme in its services and buildings.
At Kent & Canterbury Hospital these
include: a state-of-the-art day surgery
centre, dermatology centre, endoscopy
suite, a new aseptic suite and robotic
automation for pharmacy, a unique
Children’s Assessment Centre and
extensive ward refurbishments. It is home
to one of just 21 specialist haemophilia
centres in the UK and is the local centre
for inpatient urology, vascular and renal
Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Prathibha Bandipalyam
Clinical Tutor
Dr Mark Fenton
Medical Education Manager
Mrs June Toms
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services. Neurology services are also to be
centralised on this site. A purpose-built
endovascular theatre, believed to be the
first of its kind in England, was opened at
Kent & Canterbury Hospital. The state-
of-the-art facility allows highly complex
diagnostic procedures and operations,
including endovascular stenting of
aortic aneurysms (an alternative to open
surgery). The critical care service was
expanded from five beds to six intensive
care beds and four high dependency
beds, and is supporting the new vascular
theatre. Canterbury is a beautiful historic
city with a large student and tourist
population. Kent & Canterbury has a
tradition of being a popular and friendly
hospital for GPStRs and we also have 3rd
year and 5th year medical students from
King’s College London Medical School.
Based on this, in August 2008, the Trust
achieved University teaching status.
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EAST KENT HOSPITALS
UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST
Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother Hospital
GP Training Programme area: East Kent
Overview of Training at the Trust
Address Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust,
St Peter’s Road established in 1999, is one of the largest
Margate hospital Trusts in England, with five
Kent CT9 4AN hospitals and several outpatient facilities
across East Kent and Medway. For more
information, please go to our website
Switchboard www.ekhut.nhs.uk.
Telephone Number Based in the picturesque seaside town
01843 225544 of Margate, the Queen Elizabeth the
Queen Mother Hospital has recently
Website benefited from a major development
www.ekht.nhs.uk and refurbishment programme, with
new facilities including a state-of-the-art
cancer centre, an additional operating
theatre, new children’s ward, new special
care baby unit and outpatients building.
The maternity department has also been
refurbished with extra facilities.
The hospital is also home to a state-of-the-
art heart centre, containing a £3.6 million
operating theatre for specialist diagnostic
procedures and up-to-date facilities for the
hospital’s cardiology department.
Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Prathibha Bandipalyam
Clinical Tutor
Miss Elizabeth Sharp
Medical Education Manager
Mr Rags Subramaniam
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There are current plans to create a
dedicated Clinical Skills Lab within the
Education Centre and the educational
library has just been modernised, extended
and refurbished to provide textbook
learning resources as well as electronic
and internet-based resources, which are
available 24/7 with key fob access.
Margate itself is a popular, up and coming
town with plenty of nightlife, a multi-
million pound casino, cinemas, theatres
and an enviable coastline, some of which
is perfect for watersports such as surfing
and jet-skiing. Shopping and recreational
facilities attract people from across the
area and transport links to London are
quick, direct and frequent. Travelling to
Ramsgate, Canterbury, Ashford and West
Kent is also straightforward, allowing you
the freedom to explore more of Kent at
your leisure. It is easy to see why East Kent
is becoming so popular - all the attractions
without the London prices or stress.

EAST KENT HOSPITALS
UNIVERSITY NHS TRUST
William Harvey Hospital
GP Training Programme area: East Kent
Overview of Training at the Trust
Address The William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent,
Kennington Road is one of three acute hospitals forming the East
Willesborough Kent Hospitals Trust covering a catchment area
Ashford in total of approximately 600,000 population.
Kent TN24 0LZ The Trust provides a comprehensive range
of acute and specialist services to the local
areas and works in partnership with Mid Kent
Switchboard Healthcare NHS Trust for provision of oncology
Telephone Number services. The William Harvey Hospital is a
01233 633331 modern district general hospital undergoing
continual expansion as it is sited within a
Website designated growth area. The hospital is located
on the outskirts of Ashford close to the Ashford
www.ekht.nhs.uk International Station and adjacent to the M20.
It has 488 beds and covers General Medicine
(including Coronary Care Unit), General
Surgery, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Paediatrics
including special care and a neonatal intensive
care unit, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ENT and
Ophthalmology. There is an X-ray Department
and the East Kent Pathology Department
and Microbiology Department is based here.
Recent new developments include new robotic
facilities both in the Pathology Department
as well as Pharmacy. William Harvey Hospital
has a dedicated stroke unit, which undertakes
thrombolysis for acute stroke. There is a
cardiac catheter laboratory which undertakes
therapeutic interventions including angiograms
and angioplasties, permanent pace maker
Key Individuals insertions and intraventricular defibrillator
Director of Medical Education insertions. Cardio-thoracic Surgeons visit the
Dr Bandipalyam Prathibha hospital every fortnight to hold joint meeting
with cardiologists and discuss cases. This will
Clinical Tutor become the Kent Cardiac centre for primary
To be appointed angioplasty from 2010. Recently a satellite
Centre Manager Renal dialysis centre was opened on site and
To be appointed the hospital has the single Head & Neck unit
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which includes ENT, Ophthalmology and
maxillo-facial services. There is a dedicated Day
surgery unit (Channel day surgery), as well
as dedicated Endocopy and Chemotherapy
(Celia Blakey) units. The intensive care unit has
four dedicated intensivists and is accredited for
specialist intensive care training. The A&E Unit
is open 24 hours a day and includes a 5 Bay
Resuscitation area, separate Paediatric Waiting
Room with 4 self contained bays. There is a
minor injury unit staffed by nurse practitioners
and a Bereaved Relatives Lounge. In A&E
there are trained Teams in ATLS, Trauma,
ALS and Cardiac Arrest. These deal with all
major trauma, acute medical, surgical and
gynaecological emergencies. Most medical
patients are admitted to either the Clinical
Decision Unit (CDU) or directly to the Coronary
Care Unit. Staff within the Medical Unit are
responsible for all acute medical admissions,
regardless of age, and care provided by the
physicians includes the specialties of Cardiology,
Respiratory medicine, Gastroenterology,
Diabetes & endocrinology, Rheumatology
and Geriatric medicine as well as a Renal
satellite unit. Integrated care pathways for
management of chest pain, stroke and
other medical emergencies are used on the
wards and in the CDU. There is an active
teaching programme based at the William
Harvey Postgraduate Centre. Peer teaching
sessions are encouraged and there is an active
programme for recognition of teaching skills
and contribution. There is an active social life
with involvement of medical students, junior
and senior doctors. Recently there was a
Christmas party organised by the students for
all staff.
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Kent and Medway

NHS and Social Care
Partnership Trust (KMPT)
GP Training Programme Areas: Dartford, Maidstone, Medway, Tunbridge Wells,
Canterbury, Ashford and Thanet

About the Trust

Trust Headquarters The Kent and Medway NHS and Social
The Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust formed on 1 April
Care Partnership Trust HQ 2006 after East and West Kent NHS and
35 Kings Hill Avenue Social Care Partnership Trusts’merged.
Kings Hill The Trust provides a full range of mental
West Malling health and other services to 1.6 million
Kent ME19 4AX people across Kent and Medway.
There are three geographical directorates
that are in line with our Primary Care
Switchboard Trusts (PCT):
Telephone Number • West Kent
01732 520400
• Eastern and Coastal
• Medway
Website
These boundaries are shared with our
www.kmpt.nhs.uk
social care partners in Kent County
Council and Medway Council. In addition,
we operate a county-wide forensic
psychiatry service.
We are a large NHS Trust and employ
approximately 4,500 staff, and operate
from over 260 sites most community
based across Kent and Medway.
The demand for mental health services
is increasing at a higher rate than that
of the general population. It is currently
estimated that 1 in 100 people suffer
from a severe mental illness, and this
is rising.
By 2016 there will be over 1,700 extra
people known to us with a severe
mental illness.
• A
 range of bodies commissions us
to provide services. The primary
commissioners are the local Primary
Care Trusts, East and Coastal Kent,
West Kent and Medway. Other
commissioners include Kent County
Council, Medway Council and PCTs
from other areas.

Key Individuals
Medical Education Managers
Carol Atkins 01227 812017
Nick Winter 01622 222034
Directors of Medical Education:
Dr Ram Seth and Dr Carlo Berti
Locality Tutors:
Dr Fernando Santiago
(Pembury/Maidstone)
Dr Anthony Beirne (Dartford)
Prof Hana Soliman (Medway)
Dr Aamer Sarfraz (Canterbury)

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Psychological Services activities Psychology rotations within the Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care
include: Partnership Trust may be at one of the following sites:
• D
 irect and indirect assessment and Bridge House Priority House
therapeutic work with individuals and (in-patient detoxification unit) Hermitage Lane
groups Bow Arrow Lane Maidstone
• Consultation Dartford Kent ME16 9PH
• Supervision Kent DA2 6PQ Tel: 01622 725000
• Mentoring Tel: 01322 622097
• Teaching and training Stone House Hospital
• Research, audit and evaluation Chatham Community Cotton Lane
• Service innovation and development Mental Health Team Dartford
Elmsleigh Kent DA2 6AU
At present we comprise of a range of 118 Maidstone Road Tel: 01322 622222
specialisms in the following areas: Chatham
• Adult Mental Health Kent ME4 6DQ Tonbridge Community
• Art Therapy Tel: 01634 835060 Mental Health Team
• Psychotherapy 6 Dry Hill Road
• Community Alcohol Service Kingswood Community Tonbridge
• Primary Care Counselling Mental Health Team Kent TN9 1LX
• Older Adults 180/186 Union Street Tel: 01732 360032
Children & Adolescent Services (West) Maidstone
Kent ME14 1EY GP Training posts with KMPT are a part of
Tel: 01622 766900 programmes with the acute hospital trusts.
Namely, Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust,
St Bartholemew’s Hospital Medway NHS Foundation Trust, Maidstone
New Road & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and East Kent
Rochester Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.
Kent ME1 1DS
Tel: 01634 810900 Each acute trust has an allocated
number of posts for Psychiatry and the
St Martin’s Hospital, Canterbury relevant trust will liaise with us for up
Littlebourne Road to date placement information. The
Canterbury psychiatry placements are spread across
Kent CT1 1TD a large geographical area and are mostly
Tel: 01227 459584 community based. For further information
on locations of these placements, please
contact the Medical Education Manager.
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The Lions Hospice

GP Training Programme area: Medway

About the Lions Hospice

Address The Lions Hospice provides specialist
Coldharbour Road, palliative or hospice care for those people
Northfleet, with life shortening illnesses. Whilst many
Kent DA11 7HQ of our patients have cancer, we also offer
care to those with other illnesses such as
motor neurone disease, end stage organ
Telephone Number failure, pulmonary disease and many more.
01474 320007 Care is offered as an in-patient or on a
day care basis for symptom control, care
at the end of life, complex psycho-social
support and rehabilitation.
In addition to clinical treatments,
individuals are provided with a range of
activities, services and complementary
therapies to build confidence and improve
quality of life. The hospice also provides
care, advice and support for families and
friends of our patients during their illness
and into bereavement.
The Hospice has a twelve bedded In-patient
unit, which cares for over 300 patients
a year. The team aim to improve the
patients’ situation and support people
so they can return home if possible.
Patients stay on average for two weeks.
Because of the need for our services we
cannot offer long term nursing care in the
Hospice.
The Hospice also offers day therapy for up
to twenty patients on four days a week.
The day therapy team are able to support
patients undergoing blood transfusions,
needing dressings or who wish to receive
complementary therapies.
The Hospice has a team of doctors
experienced in palliative care led by
our medical director. The Hospice
also has a team of specialist qualified
nurses, social workers, complementary
therapists, chaplains, activity co-ordinator,
bereavement counsellors and many more
all with the aim of giving our patients and
their families what they need when they
need it. Patients are referred by general
practitioners, hospital doctors, community
nurses or Ellenor nurses.

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Maidstone and
Tunbridge Wells NHS
Trust
Pembury Site
GP Training Programme area: Tunbridge Wells
OVERVIEW OF TRAINING AT THE TRUST
Address Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
PEMBURY SITE is a large acute hospital Trust providing
Tonbridge Road a full range of general hospital services
Pembury and some very specialist care to 500,000
Tunbridge Wells people in West Kent and East Sussex.
Kent TN2 4QJ Its two main hospitals are Maidstone
and the new PFI Hospital at Pembury
near Tunbridge Wells. The Trust has a
Switchboard programme of ongoing investment in
Telephone Number the development of sustainable, modern
0845 155 1000 day services to provide patients with the
highest quality and most sophisticated
Website and up-to-date treatments possible.
www.mtw.nhs.uk The new PFI hospital at Pembury is due
to open to patients in January 2011.
The seven storey hospital covers 65,000
sq metres in floor area and provides
512 single patient rooms. As well as
offering a wide range of acute services,
the hospital will also act as the hub
for women and children’s services and
emergency surgery in Maidstone and
Tunbridge Wells.
The Trust has a reputation for having
a friendly atmosphere and a strong
educational ethos. Significant amounts of
money have been put into education by
the Trust and education has a high profile
at Board and Chief Executive level. A well
Key Individuals equipped Education Centre is situated
in the new hospital providing a focal
Director of Medical Education point for trainees and offering excellent
Dr Garth Sommerville learning and library facilities with 24 hour
Clinical Tutor access.
Dr Paul Reynolds
Medical Education Manager
Mrs Chris White
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The Pembury Site is situated three miles
from the middle of Royal Tunbridge
Wells. It is located on the A21 allowing
easy access to the M25 and routes into
London. Direct trains from Tunbridge
Wells to London Charing Cross and
London Bridge stations take less than one
hour and the coast is only an hour’s drive
away.
Outside of work there is a vibrant social
life, including a Winter and Summer
Ball, Christmas Revue, annual cricket
match against the consultants and
regular organised mess nights. Pembury
offers easy access to Knights Park leisure
complex including gym, cinema, bowling
and many retail outlets. Tunbridge Wells
itself is an old Royal Spa town and has
much to offer with attractive parks, places
of interest, sports facilities and leisure
interests, good restaurants and nightlife.
The town also has excellent shopping
facilities to cater for everyone’s needs but,
should you be hard to please, Bluewater,
one of the largest shopping centres in the
UK, is only a 30 minute drive away.
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Maidstone and
Tunbridge Wells NHS
Trust
Maidstone Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Maidstone
Overview of Training at Trust
Address Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Hermitage Lane provides secondary care to roughly half a
Maidstone million people in West Kent & East Sussex.
Kent ME16 9QQ Its two main hospitals are Maidstone,
situated in Kent’s county town and the
Kent & Sussex in Tunbridge Wells, some
Switchboard 18 miles away. Maidstone Hospital has a
Telephone Number highly accessible location, on the western
01622 729000 outskirts of the town, very close to
junction 5 of the M20 and within walking
Website distance of Barming railway station with
frequent train services to London Victoria.
www.mtw.nhs.uk The hospital was opened nearly 30 years
ago and has been enlarged considerably
in the intervening years. It has roughly
400 beds. In-patient specialties include
general medicine, general surgery,
paediatrics, obstetrics & gynaecology,
care of the elderly, oncology, clinical
haematology, orthopaedics & trauma,
urology and ophthalmology. The A&E
department sees approximately 60,000
patients per year. The hospital is the main
base for Kent Cancer Centre. Service
reconfiguration in 2011 will result in the
centralisation of emergency surgery in the
newly built PFI hospital in Pembury, near
Tunbridge Wells.
Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Garth Sommerville
Clinical Tutor
Dr Chris Thom
Medical Education Manager
Mrs Celia Cusworth
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The Robert Hardwick Postgraduate Centre
is located in a separate building adjacent
to the main hospital. It provides the
main setting for our extensive range of
educational activities. Building work has
now been completed on a major expansion
to the postgraduate centre which includes a
new 150 seat tiered lecture theatre, a skills
laboratory and what we hope is the best
laparoscopic training centre in the country.
Medical students, mainly from GKT, are
regularly posted to Maidstone Hospital to
undertake their electives.
Within easy reach of both London and
the continent, Maidstone offers a wealth
of attractive countryside, sports facilities
and leisure pursuits, as well as extensive
shopping, entertainment facilities and
a particularly active nightlife. There is a
supermarket and several food outlets very
near to the hospital.
Accommodation
There is limited off-site accommodation
available on a first come first served
basis. The self contained apartments
are situated in Hermitage Lane, just five
minutes walk from the hospital site.
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Medway NHS
Foundation Trust
Medway Maritime Hospital
GP Training Programme area: East Kent

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address The Medical Education Department
Windmill Road is located on the Ground Floor of the
Gillingham Postgraduate Centre and the DME and
Kent ME7 5NY Foundation Leads can be contacted
there. Medway NHS Foundation Trust, at
Medway Maritime Hospital, is located in
Gillingham, Kent, one of the towns on
Switchboard the banks of the River Medway known
Telephone Number collectively as the Medway Towns.
01634 830000 Medway Maritime Hospital is the largest
and busiest in Kent, employs over 3,550
Website staff and serves an increasing population
of over 370,000 in the Medway and
www.medway.nhs.uk Swale areas of the county. Medway
is characterised by a highly populated
urban area around the River Medway
estuary, to the north and west of which
lie substantial rural areas. Medway is also
part of the Thames Gateway, a national
priority area for regeneration and growth.
The Medway towns include several areas
of high social deprivation – consequently,
health needs are higher here than in other
parts of Kent. The Emergency Department
is the largest centre for trauma and
emergency services in Kent. The Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit, is a tertiary unit
Level 3 and is the largest unit in Kent.
The Trust is proud of its achievements
and has continued to expand, is a centre
for urology cancers, working across
Medway and Dartford. A new cardiac
catheter suite means local people need
no longer travel to London. A £4 million
Macmillan Cancer Care Unit opened last
year. Further improvements in services
are planned to ensure that we are able
to offer patients the best facilities and
standards of care.
Medway NHS Foundation Trust takes
pride in its reputation as a hard working
and friendly environment to train and
work in. It was one of the first Trusts
in the country to achieve Practice Plus
status for Improving Working Lives and
has developed clear vision and values
to ensure that it is the first choice for
patients and staff.

Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Bov Jani
Clinical Director
Dr Kirtida Mukherjee
Medical Education Manager
Ms Lynne Russell
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Pilgrims Hospice
GP Training Programme area: East Kent

About The pilgrims hospice

Address The Pilgrims Hospices are an independent Refurbished in 2003, it has an in-patient
56 London Road charity and the principal provider of unit of 16 beds and provision for
Canterbury specialist palliative care in east Kent. approximately 20 day hospice patients per
Kent CT2 8JA Pilgrims Hospice, Canterbury is our day open 2 days a week.
founding hospice and was opened in June The hospice, which is situated on London
1982 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Road, off the Rheims Way, stands within
Telephone Number Queen Mother. its own beautiful grounds, set back from
01227 812612 Our specialist teams offer physical, social a large three storey building that houses
and spiritual support to those facing administration, education facilities and a
life-threatening illness. These services library.
are extended to the families and carers
of the patients in our care. The Multi-
Professional Team is led by our Medical
Consultants in Specialist Palliative Care
and include the joint expertise of doctors,
nurses, social workers, counsellors,
physiotherapists, chaplains and
complementary therapists.

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Training Practices in the East Kent GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Ashford & Dover Balmoral Surgery Canada Road Walmer Deal CT14 7EQ
Thanet Bethesda Medical Centre Palm Bay Avenue Cliftonville Kent CT9 3NR
Thanet Birchington Medical Centre Minnis Road Birchington Kent CT7 9HQ
Canterbury Bridge Health Centre Patrixbourne Road Bridge Canterbury CT4 5BL
Canterbury Canterbury Health Centre 26 Old Dover Road Canterbury CT1 3JB
Canterbury Cossington House Surgery 51 Cossington Road Canterbury CT1 3HX
Ashford & Dover Crane Surgery Rectory Fields Cranbrook TN17 3JB
Thanet East Cliff Medical Practice Dumpton Park Drive Ramsgate CT11 8AD
Canterbury Faversham Health Centre Bank Street Faversham Kent ME13 8QR
Ashford & Dover Hamstreet Surgery Ruckinge Road Hamstreet Kent TN26 2NJ
Ashford & Dover Ivy Court Surgery Recreation Ground Road Tenterden TN30 6RB
Ashford & Dover Kingsnorth Medical Practice Ashford Road Kingsnorth Ashford TN23 3ED
Thanet Mildmay Court Surgery Bellevue Road Ramsgate CT11 8JX
Canterbury Minster Surgery 75 HighStreet Minster Nr Ramsgate CT12 4AB
Canterbury New Dover Road Surgery 10 New Dover Road Canterbury Kent CT1 3AP
Ashford & Dover New Hayesbank Surgery Bybrook Kennington Nr Ashford TN24 9JZ
Canterbury Newton Place Surgery Newton Place Newton Road Faversham ME13 8FM
Canterbury Northgate Medical Practice 1 Northgate Canterbury CT1 1WL
Ashford & Dover Oaklands Health Centre Stade Street Hythe CT21 6BD
Canterbury Peter Street Surgery Peter Street Dover Kent CT16 1EF
Ashford & Dover Sandgate Road Surgery 180 Sandgate Road Folkestone CT20 2HN
Canterbury St Anne’s Group Medical 161 Station Road Herne Bay Kent CT6 5NF
Practice
Canterbury Sturry Surgery (Branch of 53 Island Road Sturry Canterbury CT2 0EF
Canterbury HC 1)
Thanet The Grange Practice The Montefiore Medical Dumpton Park Drive Ramsgate CT11 8AD
Centre
Canterbury The New Surgery 128 Canterbury Road Folkestone CT19 5SR
Canterbury The Park Surgery 116 Kings Road Herne Bay CT6 5RE
Ashford & Dover The Surgery Main Road Sellindge Ashford TN25 6JX
Thanet The Surgery Union Row Margate CT9 1PP
Ashford & Dover The Willesborough Health Centre Bentley Road Willesborough Ashford TN24 0HZ
Canterbury University Medical Centre Giles Lane Canterbury Kent CT2 7PB
Canterbury Whitstable Health Centre Harbour Street Whitstable CT5 1BZ
Canterbury Wye Surgery Oxenturn Road Wye Ashford TN25 5AY
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Training Practices in the Medway GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Medway Downsway Medical Practice Worcester Close Istead Way Gravesend DA13 9LB
Medway Highcliffe Surgery Hermitage Road Higham Rochester ME3 7DB
Medway Lordswood Community Healthy Sultan Road Lordswood Chatham ME5 8TJ
Living Ctr
Medway Memorial Medical Centre Bell Road Sittingbourne Kent ME10 4XX
Medway Riverside Medical Practice Halling Medical Ctr Ferry Road Halling ME2 1NP
Medway St George’s Medical Centre 55 St George’s Avenue SHEERNESS Kent ME12 1QU
Medway St Mary’s Medical Centre Vicarage Road Strood Rochester ME2 4DG
Medway The Parks Medical Practice Parkside Surgery Cliffe Wood Rochester ME3 8HX
Medway Thorndike Surgery Longley Road Rochester Kent ME1 2TH
Medway Walderslade Village Surgery 62a Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham ME5 9LD
Medway Woodlands Family Practice Gillingham Medical Centre Woodlands Road Gillingham ME7 2BU

Training Practices in the Dartford GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Dartford & Gravesham Downsway Medical Practice Worcester Close Istead Way Gravesend DA13 9LB
Dartford & Gravesham Gravesend Medical Centre 1 New Swan Yard Gravesend Kent DA12 2EN
Dartford & Gravesham Horsman’s Place Surgery Instone Road Dartford DA1 2SR
Dartford & Gravesham Ingleton Surgery 84 Ingleton Road Welling Kent DA16 2JZ
Dartford & Gravesham Kent House Surgery 36 Station Road Longfield Kent DA3 7QD
Dartford & Gravesham Lowfield Medical Centre 65-67 Lowfield Street Dartford DA1 1HP
Dartford & Gravesham Meopham Medical Centre Wrotham Road Meopham DA13 0AH
Dartford & Gravesham Pelham Medical Practice Pelham Road Gravesend Kent DA11 0HN
Dartford & Gravesham The Oak Partnership Nightingale Way Swanley Kent BR8 7UP
Dartford & Gravesham The Orchard Practice Dartford West Health Centre Tower Road Dartford DA1 2HA
Dartford & Gravesham The Surgery 30 Old Road West Gravesend DA11 0LL

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Training Practices in the Maidstone GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Maidstone Bearsted Medical Practice Yeoman Lane Bearstead Maidstone ME14 4DS
Maidstone Blackthorn Medical Centre St Andrew’s Road Maidstone ME16 9AN
Maidstone Borough Green Medical Practice Quarry Hill Road Borough Green TN15 8RQ
Maidstone College Practice 50/52 College Road Maidstone Kent ME15 6SB
Maidstone Len Valley Practice Groom Way Lenham Kent ME17 2QF
Maidstone Mote Medical Practice St Saviour’s Road Maidstone ME15 9FL
Maidstone Snodland Medical Practice Calt’s Alley Malling Road Snodland ME6 5SN
Maidstone The Medical Centre 10a Northumberland Court Maidstone Kent ME15 7LN
Maidstone The Vine Medical Centre 166 Tonbridge Road MAIDSTONE ME16 8SS
Maidstone Thornhills Medical Group Larkfield Health Centre, Larkfield Aylesford ME20 6QJ
Martin Square
Maidstone West Malling Group Practice Milverton 116 High Street West Malling ME19 6NE

Training Practices in the Tunbridge Wells GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Tunbridge Wells Amherst Medical Centre 21 St Botolph’s Road Sevenoaks TN13 3AG
Tunbridge Wells April Cottage High Street Buxted Uckfield TN22 4LA
Tunbridge Wells Borough Green Medical Quarry Hill Road Borough Green TN15 8RQ
Practice
Tunbridge Wells Clanricarde Medical Centre Clanricarde Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1PJ
Tunbridge Wells Dunorlan Medical Group 64 Pembury Road Tonbridge TN9 2JG
Tunbridge Wells Groombridge and Hartfield The Nook,Withyham Groombridge Tunbridge TN3 9QP
Medical Group Road Wells
Tunbridge Wells Grosvenor Medical Centre 23 Upper Grosvenor Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 2DX
Road
Tunbridge Wells Hildenborough Medical Group Westwood Tonbridge Road Hildenborough TN11 9HL
Tunbridge Wells Kingswood Surgery Kingswood Road Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 4UJ
Tunbridge Wells Lonsdale Medical Centre 1 Clanricarde Gardens Tunbridge Wells Kent TN1 1PE
Tunbridge Wells Rusthall Medical Centre Nellington Road Rusthall Tunbridge TN4 8UW
Wells
Tunbridge Wells The Old Bakery Anshurst Road Speldhurst Kent TN3 0PE
Tunbridge Wells Warders Medical Centre East Street Tonbridge TN9 1LA
Tunbridge Wells Winterton Surgery Market Square Westerham TN16 1RB
Tunbridge Wells Woodlands Health Centre Allington Road Paddock Wood Tonbridge TN12 6AX
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About Surrey
Surrey has a population of
approximately 1.1 million people. Due
to its proximity to London there are
many commuter towns and villages
in Surrey, the population density is
high and the area is more affluent
than many other parts of the UK.
Surrey is the most densely populated
county after Greater London, the
metropolitan counties and Bristol.
Much of the north east of the county
is an urban area contiguous to
Greater London.
“
The Surrey Hills Area
of Outstanding Natural
Beauty is one of 36
nationally protected
landscapes in England,
“
having equal landscape
status and protection to a
National Park.
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The county of Surrey borders Greater
London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex,
and Hampshire.
Surrey is also England’s most wooded
county. Its desirability as a place to
live, work and visit is closely linked to
its pleasant rural environment. The
Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty is one of 36 nationally protected
landscapes in England, having equal
landscape status and protection to a
National Park. One of the first landscapes
to be designated as such, in 1958, it has
a diverse and rich landscape - the hills
themselves embrace an amazing variety of
countryside, from the rolling chalk downs
of yew and box woodland and flower
rich grasslands, to the acid heaths and
woodland of the Greensand Hills that rise
to form the highest point in South East
England at Leith Hill. These offer some of
South East England’s most beautiful and
accessible countryside, with an extensive
footpath network, open commons,
breathtaking views, attractive market
towns and villages and much more.
Administratively, Surrey is split into two
Patches, East Surrey and West Surrey.
There are two Associate GP Deans for
Surrey, Dr Chris Warwick joined the
Deanery Team as Associate GP Dean
in June 2009 for East Surrey. Dr Hilary
Diack is the Associate GP Dean for West
Surrey. The Associate GP Deans combine
their work as GPs in the area with that
for the GP Deanery. They, and the GP
Programme Directors and GP Trainers are
administratively supported by the Surrey
Patch Manager, Laurainne Copnall, who is
based full-time at the KSS Deanery Office
in London Bridge.
The West Surrey patch contains 3 GP
Training Programme areas: Chertsey,
Frimley and Guildford.
In West Surrey, there are the towns of
Camberley, Ashford (Middlesex), Woking,
and rural areas of Surrey together with
Aldershot and Farnborough on the
Hampshire borders. The towns of Frimley
and Camberley are located towards the
west of the region and both towns have
good rail and road connections to London
and out to the West. Close by are the
River Thames and the historic towns of
Windsor and Eton, together with Windsor
Great Park. The Magna Carta was signed
at a spot nearby. Farnborough is famous
for its annual airshow and Aldershot has
a long association with the British Army.
Guildford is often ranked as one of the
safest and desirable towns in which to live
in the UK. It has good shopping, and is
surrounded by attractive countryside.
The smaller towns all have good rail and
road connections to London, and the area
is close to Heathrow airport.
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The East Surrey patch contains 2

GP Programme Training areas: East
Surrey/Crawley and Epsom.
In East Surrey, there are the towns of
Caterham, Redhill, Dorking and Reigate
and rural areas of Surrey, as well as Epsom
(famous for its racecourse and its Downs)
and Leatherhead. Dorking is known for its
range of antique shops and Reigate has a
large number of restaurants. Crawley is a
large town with excellent entertainment
provision including a large cinema
complex. The North Downs cross the
patch and there is good walking country
and many historic houses, gardens and
National Trust properties. The towns of
Crawley and Horsham are both in the
county of Sussex but because of their
proximity, are administratively part of the
KSS East Surrey patch.
The area is well served by rail links to
London and the South Coast and has the
convenience of having Gatwick Airport.
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GP Training in East
Surrey
Gatwick airport is in the centre of
this area, London is within easy
reach and Brighton and the south
coast only 30 minutes away by car
or train. Crawley is an early example
of the “New Towns” having been
subject to significant expansion in
the late 1950s and 1960s. Like Milton
Keynes, Crawley is famous for its
roundabouts. The current population
is around 100,000 and the proximity
of Gatwick airport means that there
is almost full employment. There is a
wide mix of social and ethnic groups.
The people who originally moved
to the new town are now forming
an ageing population and the age
distribution of the area as a whole
mirrors that of the UK. Redhill and
Reigate are the two towns to the
north of the area covered by CRESH.
They are old established towns just
outside the M25. Although much
of the population is prosperous,
there are areas of significant social
deprivation within the borough.
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CRAWLEY AND EAST SURREY (CRESH)
The Crawley and East Surrey Training
Programme
The Crawley and East Surrey GP The teaching programme is based on
Specialty training programme is the GP curriculum, but we encourage a
commonly known as CRESH. The creative approach to this. For example,
CRESH training programme is one previous sessions have included
of the larger programmes in the KSS topics such as, ‘Ethics and resource
Deanery area. Historically there was a Management’, Child Protection Issues,
scheme based at Crawley Hospital and “Tinsillitis” - Christmas and Seasonal
another scheme at East Surrey Hospital Affective Disorder, Smoking and
in Redhill. With the merger of the two Respiratory Diseases, CSA skills practice,
Trusts in 2000 it became clear that the how to use Yoga and relaxation,
service reconfiguration meant that the Presentation skills and ‘Teaching each
GP training programmes should merge. other’.
The large number of doctors on the
programme means that there is a whole
day of educational activity during term
time with the doctors who are in general
practice placements (ST3) attending on a
Wednesday morning. After lunch there
are learning sets for ST1 and ST2 doctors
in their hospital. The sessions are held in
the East Surrey Hospital (Redhill)
Medical education centre and all GPStRs
in hospital posts are encouraged to
attend.

All the rotations include 20 months in
General Practice. Residential courses
allow subjects to be explored in much
greater depth than is possible on the day
release scheme. The Programme Directors
therefore aim to run at least one, and
possibly two 48 hour residentials per year
at varying venues. Subjects that have
been included recently include “Law and
Peace”, ethical dilemmas and consultation
skills. We have hosted these events at
hotels in Brighton and Bournemouth as
well as the delightful surroundings of
Cisswood House near Horsham in recent
times. The GPStRs arrange social evenings
together, and group evenings (e.g. tenpin
bowling) take place.
The programme directors in the CRESH GP
Training Programme Area Are:
Dr Terry Conaty
Terry has been a GP Programme Director
since 2004 and has been involved in GP
Training in East Surrey since the early
1990s as a GP Trainer. He practices in
Smallfield just to the east of the runway
at Gatwick airport. Terry has recently
supported the GP School by taking a role
as Academic Mentor for East Kent.
Dr Bob Ward
Bob started as a GP Programme
Director in 2004 having previously had
responsibility for looking after the GP
Trainers in the Crawley area. He has been
a GP Trainer since 1995. Bob works in
Furnace Green in Crawley with his three
partners and salaried colleagues. He has
completed a Diploma in Sports Medicine
and does a session a week as a GP with
a special interest in musculoskeletal
medicine.
Dr Graham Carr
A Senior Lecturer at London South
Bank University in the Faculty of Health
and Social Care, Graham’s role there is
course director for undergraduate and
postgraduate educational qualifications
for health care professionals. Graham’s
professional background is in nursing and
his clinical career was mainly in the areas
of ITU/CCU and HIV/STDs. For the last 6
years, he has been working on a number
of joint KSS/LSBU educational projects,
linked to teacher training for GPs, and
as part of this liaison he has been a GP
Programme Director since 2005.
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Dr Heidi Fahy
Heidi is part time GP in a small rural
village in Surrey, and a part time
educationalist. She is a trainer, an
appraiser, as well as a PD, and also works
as GP Tutor in East Surrey and Crawley.
She has been a GP since 1990, and has
experience of variety having worked as
a full time partner, a locum, and now
as a salaried GP. Her areas of interest
include Gynaecology, Family Planning,
and Paediatrics. She has three teenage
children and has in the past taken a three
year sabbatical. She has discovered skiing
far too late, but is keen to one day be
able to ski elegantly down a black run.
Dr Pippa Woolner
I work as a part time salaried GP at
Townhill Medical Practice in Caterham.
I juggle this with being a mother with
a young daughter. Work interests
include medical education, general
medicine and care of the elderly. Hobbies
include playing tennis and going out to
restaurants!
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About Epsom
Epsom is most well known for its
racecourse, but is also a former spa
town although little survives of the
former spa attractions. Epsom town
centre is busy and interesting, with
good shopping facilities and plenty
of social and entertainment facilities
including the Epsom Playhouse. The
surrounding areas are rural, with many
parks and wooded areas, while it also
benefits from easy access to London.
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EPSOM
About the Epsom GP Training Programme
Epsom is a well established GP training
scheme in a pleasant part of the country,
based around a friendly hospital that is
part of the Epsom and St Helier University
Hospitals NHS Trust. There are many
innovative training Practices locally and
Practices in the Epsom area were some of
the first in the country to go forward with
Practice-based Commissioning.
Epsom is a popular choice for GP training,
due to its reputation and location, straddling
attractive parts of semi-rural Surrey, while
allowing easy access to all the facilities of
London.
The Epsom scheme attracts high quality
candidates who benefit from the high
quality educational opportunities we offer.
The GPStRs meet on Wednesdays mornings
09.30 – 13.00 in term time in The Bradbury
Medical Education Centre, Epsom General
Hospital.
The post rotations are designed to provide a
balance of appropriate experience, and much
support is gained by sharing experience with
the other scheme members. Epsom has
developed active learning sets in each year
of the training programme which are well
attended and supplement the education
already provided within the departments.
The GP learning sets are designed with input
from GPStRs at all stages, and are mapped
to the GP curriculum to ensure full and
thorough coverage. We attempt to cover
those areas best learnt in small groups, and
the curriculum includes numerous sessions in
examination practice and technique with the
MRCGP in mind. A mixture of clinical and
managerial topics are covered in a supportive
and nurturing environment, which is
universally considered the highlight of the GP
training programme in Epsom.
Recent sessions have included: Consultation
analysis; Minor Illness; Ophthalmology
in Primary Care; Dermatology in Primary
Care; CSA Practice; Evidence-based
medicine and critical appraisal; Prescribing
and Therapeutics; Ethical issues; GPStR
Presentations; Palliative Care for GPs; Practice
visits; Sexual Health; Dementia Care; and
Practise Based Commissioning.
Full details at: http://www.epsomgpvts.
org.uk/Half_Day_Release_Course.asp
Our programme now includes 4 month
placements in General practice in each of the
ST1 and ST2 years, in addition to the full year
of ST3 experience in general practice. Some
of these placements will be in the doctor’s
eventual ST3 Practice, but others will not,
giving a broader range of experience.
Therefore you will spend a total of 20
months in general practice through your
three year envelope of posts, giving a superb
opportunity to have a well rounded training
that aims to make you a capable and
confident GP.

The Epsom GP training programme aims to
run at least one residential course a year. In
recent years we have stayed at Cumberland
Lodge in Windsor Great Park, and Dunsford
House in West Sussex. Topics covered
have included advanced consultation skills,
(particularly non face-to-face skills), how to
take a sexual history, ‘Heartsink Patients’, and
CBT in GP Consultations. In the evening the
more relaxed ambience has been enlivened
with some rather fine impromptu singing
with piano accompaniment.
We arrange a variety of opportunities outside
of the VTS including a recent joint injection
evening course. We have also arranged
interview technique workshops with the
Trainers’ group which have proved popular
with GPStRs beginning to think about their
future careers.
The GP training group, though small (we
have an intake of 12 members) has its
own lively social scene of meals and nights
out, organised by an enthusiastic band of
current members, and the scheme works
hard to involve members at all stages to
join in, encouraging a feeling of belonging
throughout the whole programme.
Epsom prides itself on its young and
motivated Programme Directors, who have
recent and valuable experience in passing the
MRCGP, and are undertaking further study in
education as they progress.
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The Programme Directors in the Epsom GP
Training area are:
Dr Mark Halloran Dr Terri Lovis
Mark is a salaried GP based in Shoreham- Terri trained in hospital medicine before
by-Sea. He has worked closely with the moving into general practice and has
deanery through the Trainees Committee been pleased with her decision ever since!
and School Board. In 2009 he helped She also graduated from the Epsom
set-up the RCGP faculty ‘Finding Jobs scheme and liked it so much that she
in General Practice’ AIT day. He is also returned as a Programme Director. She
passionate about music and is a lazy has a special interest in family planning
gardener. and sexual health. Terri works at the
Wall House Surgery in Reigate as well as
Dr James Steinhardt offering family planning services to local
Dr James Steinhardt is the junior partner surgeries.
at a local practice in Leatherhead and
has been a PD for a year and a half now.
He was a trainee on the Epsom scheme
and lives in Epsom. His interests include
education and general medicine and he
is on the pathway to become a trainer. In
his free time he likes to dj, and hang out
with his 1 year old son. He has a slot on
the hospital radio station keeping the feet
tapping on the orthopedic ward!
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About Chertsey
Chertsey is situated midway between
Egham and Weybridge; and is one
of the oldest towns in England, as
such it boasts some of its finest pubs,
restaurants and scenery.
The town is part of the Borough
of Runnymeade, named after the
riverside meadow where King John
sealed the Magna Carta in 1215.
Amongst some of the attractions,
is the Chertsey Museum which is
located in a fine Regency house,
giving visitors the chance to
explore the history of the Borough
of Runnymeade using hands-on
interactive displays.
The river is spanned by an elegant
seven-arched bridge at Chertsey and
there is lots of riverside activity here
including pubs, boatbuilding yards
and river traffic. In addition Chertsey
Meads is a delightful 170 acre site
of open grassland fronting the River
Thames, with wildlife habits, walks
and picnic areas.
Nearby is the world famous Thorpe
Park, offering a wide range of
amusements for families, young
people and groups. A short distance
from Thorpe Park is John Battleday
Waterski, this centre offers a number
of activities including waterskiing,
cable skiing and wake boarding and
caters for all levels of ability.
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CHERTSEY
About the Chertsey GP Training Programme
The Chertsey GP Training Programme has
been developed to deliver a robust and
enjoyable curriculum within the design of
an innovative programme. The scheme is
based in Ashford and St Peters hospitals,
with GPStRs meeting at the Oliver
Plunkett Medical Education Centre in St
Peters Hospital.
We are currently able to offer 21
rotations, with 18 months in hospital
posts and 18 months in General Practice.
Our training is based across the Ashford
and St Peters sites with Psychiatry rotating
to the Abraham Cowley Unit. We are
also able to offer Integrated Training Posts
which amalgamate both General Practice
and specialty training in one rotation
allowing for cross disciplinary learning.
The Programme is based on the RCGP
curriculum with an emphasis on the
Skills and Attitudes that are so key
to developing the art form that good
general practice is.
We aim to deliver a well rounded
approach aided by a variety of teaching
methods, which will include both
knowledge based work as well as
the practical skills needed to practice
holistically. We are fully aware of the
importance of addressing all aspects of
the curriculum with particular reference
to areas that will facilitate successful
completion of the MRCGP. This will
include mock exam practice with external
simulated patients, as recommended by
examiners for the CSA.
Most importantly the ethos of the GP
Training Programme is to be learner
centered with planned input from
learners, Programme Directors, Clinical
and Educational Supervisors.
We are motivated by an ongoing desire
to achieve excellence and to help guide
the continual evolution of our trainees
into fully fledged General Practitioners.
We have a diverse group of trainers,
specialists and Programme Directors, who
are experienced and interested in training.
We ensure standards are maintained
by close links to hospital specialists
responsible for GP specialty posts. This
allows continual updates in the methods
of practice within these attachments,
ensuring delivery of an appropriate
educational curriculum.

We also enjoy the opportunity to take our
trainees on a relaxing residential, which is
a wonderful opportunity for participants
in the scheme to get to know each other
and develop stronger ties. These are held
at Cumberland Lodge, a beautiful stately
home set amongst stunning expansive
grounds. Previous trainees on the scheme
have enjoyed the tennis courts, famous
Red Deer and exquisite dining.
This underpins the overall vision of the
scheme which is to deliver a training
programme that is both supportive
and nurturing while maintaining high
standards of achievement.
The Programme Directors in the Chertsey
GP Programme area are:
Dr Tracey Collins
I am from Belfast and went to Queen’s
University, Belfast. After 5 years as a
Medical Officer in the RAMC, surviving
Sandhurst and the famous vicars and
tarts course, I did my GP training at St
Peters Hospital, The Royal Surrey County
Hospital and Cranleigh. I have been a GP
Principal in Woking since 1996, a Trainer
since 2002 and a Programme director
since 2005. I live in the outskirts of
Woking with my family (including faithful
hound). My hobbies include sailing,
running, skiing, reading and hill walking. I
am currently studying for a MA in Clinical
Education. I thoroughly enjoy my role in
helping to nurture our future GPs. I look
forward to meeting you if you come to
Ashford/St Peters
Dr Saba Khan
I was born and raised in London and,
while sampling the delights of South
London cuisine, completed my medical
training at St Georges Hospital University
London.
I went straight into my chosen career path
as a GP, on the Oxford rotation based in
Windsor. The bulk of this training was
at Wexham and Heatherwood hospitals,
with a final year in Ascot.
I am currently working on an MSc in
Primary Care Management. I have
been a Regular Locum in the Surrey
area, since 2006, and I have been
given the opportunity to become a
Programme Director since the summer
of 2009. I have also been involved in
the development of Child Protection and
Domestic Abuse Training since 2005.
I have a passion for painting and sculpture
and have worked hard to maintain this
throughout my medical career. I also love
to travel and have had the opportunity
to visit various parts of the Middle East,
Europe and the Far East.
I look forward to the future of the VTS
and the wonderful opportunities that
this will bring for all those involved in the
Chertsey training Scheme.
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Dr Layth Delaimy MB, ChB, MRCGP,
PGC (education), DRCOG
Qualified in 1990 as MB ChB from
University of Baghdad & practiced in the
Middle East, West Africa and the UK.
I have been a GP since 1998 and a GP
Trainer since 2003. I took the role of
Programme Director for Chertsey since
2008. I work with other programme
directors in running the Chertsey half
day release course for registrars (VTS)
on Thursdays at St Peter’s Hospital
and manage & direct the GP training
programme in Chertsey area.
Prior to committing myself to educational
work only, I was a member of the
professional executive committee for
North Surrey Primary Care Trust (PCT)
& West Elmbridge Primary Care Group
2000-2006. I played an active role in
establishing the Thames Medical Practice
Based Commissioning Consortium
(Federation of practices) for Elmbridge &
Runneymede, and chaired the board for
six months during its foundation.
I am working towards an MA in Education
and I also work as a GP Appraiser for
Surrey PCT. My ethos of practice is to
have a clear definition of what primary
care is about, concentrating on patient
management in the community with the
best current evidence based practice with
best use of available resources to provide
excellence in Family Medicine. I enjoy
playing and listening to music and enjoy
playing basket ball and golf. I also like a
good and stimulating book.
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About Frimley
If you do not know the Surrey-
Hampshire border area, you do not
know what you have missed! The
main attractions are the easy access to
London, numerous shopping centres
and outstanding heathland & woodland
(most army owned and “free-to-roam”).
For centuries Frimley was a farming
village and an album of Victorian
photographs in the Borough Museum
shows haymaking and harvesting
where the Albany Park Industrial Estate
now stands. The site of the old village
pound, where stray animals were
‘impounded’, may still be seen on the
Grove opposite Frimley Park Hospital.
Notable personalities associated with
Frimley include Dame Ethel Smyth, the
celebrated composer and suffragette,
and the American author Bret Harte,
who lies buried in Frimley Churchyard.
The development of the last fifty years
has blurred the boundaries between
Frimley and Frimley Green, although the
latter’s original village green survives,
together with a few half timbered
buildings. Lakeside Country Club is
situated outside Frimley Green. To the
south is Mytchett, once farmland but
now mainly residential. Mytchett Lake is
popular with anglers, and local people
can also enjoy sport and leisure activities
at Frimley Lodge Park, where the historic
Basingstoke Canal, once a commercial
waterway, now offers opportunities for
pleasant walks and boat trips.
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About the Frimley GP Training Programme
The Frimley GP Training Programme is
centred around Frimley Park Foundation
Hospital Trust (FPH), close to Camberley,
on the Surrey-Hampshire border. There
are several large towns with shopping
centres close by; we are surrounded by
pine forests, heathland and the North
Downs, all are ideal for leisure and
relaxation; the area is well served by road
connections to London, the West Country
and the South Coast. Many of our GPStRs
commute from West London.
Frimley Park Hospital is an excellent
District General Hospital with a broad
spread of specialties and an active, well-
supported post-graduate centre. It has an
excellent reputation with junior doctors –
busy but a very friendly place to work in.
In addition to everything that you would
expect at a DGH, FPH is also a regional
military hospital. In both the hospital and
GP specialty training posts, input from the
military medical and nursing staff is highly
valued.
The Ridgewood Centre is a mile up the
road from Frimley Park Hospital and is the
location for the hospital-based psychiatry
services (adult and elderly).
Community-based psychiatry services are
based with the local Community Mental
Health Teams.
St Peters Hospital, Chertsey is only a few
miles up the road and is a full DGH with
its own large GP Training Programme and
it is also the host for one of our Child &
Adolescent Mental Health posts.
All of our training programmes consist of
six 4-month posts (ST1 and ST2) followed
by 12 months in the GP training practice
(ST3). Every rotation now includes a
GP-based post in each of ST1 and ST2.
Normally these will be in your eventual
ST3 training Practice but this is not always
possible. Your GP trainer for ST3 year is
your Educational Supervisor and mentor
for the whole three year programme.
Hospital posts in ST1 are mainly “core
medical” posts – general medicine, care
of the elderly and A&E. Hospital posts
in ST2 are mainly “other specialties”
– O&G, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, ENT,
Orthopaedics. Most of the ST1 and
ST2 GP posts are “Innovative Training
Posts” consisting of 3 days per week in
GP (2 educational sessions) and 2 days
per week in a hospital specialty. These
include Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, ENT,
Psychiatry, GUM, Dermatology, Palliative
Care and Rheumatology/ MAU.
During ST1 and ST2 years, most of
your learning will be work-place based
learning from the clinical problems that
you encounter. The value of this type
of learning is tremendous. This will be
reinforced by the departmental teaching
programme for the department that you
are working in. In addition, there are
other learning opportunities to improve
the GP-perspective on your learning.

• Last Friday of the month – meeting with
a GP Programme Director.
This meeting will be used to bring you up
to speed on using the ePortfolio, discuss
assessments, carry out CBDs, discuss
issues & problems etc. Other topics
include areas of general relevance to all
– e.g. motivational interviewing, palliative
care, drugs & alcohol, ethics in an hour….
• Thursdays during the teaching term
– clinical presentations with ST3s. You
are invited to join us for lunch at 1pm
and then a meeting 1:30pm – 2pm.
Each week, one group of trainees will
give a short clinical presentation to
the group, followed by a discussion.
This is an opportunity to meet up with
the ST3s as well as an opportunity to
explore the curriculum and practice
teaching/ presentation skills. This will
only take place when the learning
group of GPStRs is meeting at FPH
– the timetable is available in the Post-
Graduate Educations Centre.
We believe that we give our GPStRs good
guidance on maintaining a work-life
balance! The GPStR group does always
seem to develop well as a peer-group
and the residential sessions each term at
Cumberland Lodge do enhance this.
The Medical Education Centre at Frimley
Park Hospital is an excellent and popular
resource. We believe that we maintain an
excellent relationship with the consultant
body at Frimley Park Hospital. They
provide regular (and excellent) input
into the GP training programme. When
you are in hospital posts, we support
access to GP-based training (study-
leave attachments, ITPs, invitation to
Residentials). Whilst you are GP-based,
we are able to offer access to hospital-
based opportunities (outpatient clinic
attachments). We think this gives you the
best of both worlds.
Out-of-Hours training remains a very
important skill, especially for newly
qualified GPs. We are unusual in Frimley
in that we have managed to continue
the same format as the previous, friendly
GP Co-operative. This ensures a high
standard of OOH care and OOH training,
delivered mainly by the GP Trainers within
the group.
We understand the importance of the
MRCGP examination and we do tailor our
overall educational programme to help
GPStRs in their preparation for this. For
the first three years of the new MRCGP
exam, all of our trainees have successfully
completed the components of MRCGP by
the end of their ST3 year.
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The Programme
Directors in
the FRIMLEY GP
Programme area are:
Dr Brian Booth
Dr Booth has been active in training in
Frimley for many years. He has been a GP
Trainer in the past but currently focuses
on the Thursday afternoon teaching
programme for the ST3s.
Dr Christine Marshall
Dr Marshall has been running the
Thursday afternoon programme with Dr
Booth also for a good few years, and
with him provides the main support for
the group of ST3 GPStRs. She has several
other roles within the Deanery with a
particular emphasis on teaching the new
teachers.
Dr Richard de Ferrars
Dr de Ferrars has been a Trainer since
1999. He focuses mainly on GP input
into the Foundation Programme, working
with the GP Trainer Group and on the
organisational aspect of the GP training
programme. He does a lot of work with
the ST1 and ST2s GPStRs .
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About Guildford
Guildford is a vibrant historic town,
set in the rolling hills of the Surrey
countryside. Its location and excellent
transport links mean that Guildford has
welcomed travellers for centuries.
The River Wey, which runs through
the centre of town, is owned by the
National Trust, and was one of the first
rivers to be made navigable. Guildford
later became an important staging post
for travellers between London and
Portsmouth, being mid-way between
the capital and the coastal port.
Guildford is the county town, retaining
its traditional cobbled high street and
riverside walks, but offering all the
richness and amenities of a city, with
excellent shopping and entertainment.
Guided walks of the town offer an
insight into the fascinating history of
the area, taking in the castle keep, the
15th-century Guildhall and a wealth of
other historic buildings.
The Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty encompasses much of
the surrounding countryside, which is
dotted with picturesque villages and
a wealth of gardens and houses to
visit. Guildford’s attractions range from
the 240 acre garden at Wisley to the
20th-century cathedral just outside the
town and many are linked by the North
Downs Way national trail.
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GUILDFORD
About the Guildford GP Training Programme
There are a variety of GP Training
Practices from large suburban practices
in the middle of Guildford to small rural
or semi rural Practices, some of which are
dispensing.
Training Practices are located in and
around the centre of Guildford and the
surrounding villages including Grayshott,
East Horsley, Binscombe, Godalming,
Haslemere, Cranleigh, Wonersh, Shere,
Chiddingfold and Milford. The GP Trainers
are an enthusiastic and supportive group
of doctors. They enjoy teaching, one
to one and in the Trainer/GPST3 group,
which is an integral part of the GPST3’s
teaching timetable.
The Guildford GP Training Programme
offers a wide range of posts and
experience, aligned with the GP
curriculum. Each GPST rotation includes 6
four month posts which will incorporate
at least one Integrated Training Post (ITP).
An ITP post involves working two days
in the GP Practice and two days in the
Hospital specialty with one day release for
teaching.
Posts offered include: Paediatrics, ENT,
Obs & Gynae, Rheumatology, Geriatrics,
Oncology, A&E, Palliative Care, Psychiatry,
ITP Paediatrics, ITP Obs & Gynae, ITP
Geriatrics, ITP Dermatology, ITP CAMHS,
ITP Neurology.
When appointed you will be allocated
to a GP Trainer at the beginning of your
three year rotation. Your GP Trainer will
act as your overall Educational Supervisor
as well as your mentor and give you
advice throughout your training. You
will spend one day in your Educational
Supervisor’s General Practice during each
of your hospital placements. It is expected
that at the end of your hospital rotation
you will then spend your ST3 year with
the same Trainer.
The GPST3’s meet on Thursday mornings
from 08:30-12:00 for the core GPST3
teaching. A GP Trainer and GPST3 group
meets for an hour in the afternoon. The
ITP group have their own day release
teaching on a Thursday morning from
10:00 – 12:00, all taking place at Royal
Surrey Hospital Education Centre. The
remainder of Thursday afternoon for
GPST3’s & GPST’s in ITP posts is for study
groups to work independently.
We aim to cover all aspects of the
Curriculum and the initial sessions are
aimed at understanding the context and
requirements of the MRCGP exam. The
timetable is planned in advance although
this is always adapted to the needs of
our current group. We aim to cover all
aspects of the GP curriculum. We run
two residential sessions at Cumberland
Lodge in Great Windsor Park and have a
social once a term which takes a variety
of forms.

GP Clinical Updates take place at
lunchtime for the GPST1, 2 & 3s and
Trainers. Topics covered include relevant
clinical issues linked to the competencies
of the RCGP Curriculum. Each Training
Practice has the opportunity to lead an
update in turn.
We work very hard to provide teaching
that equips you for a lifelong career
in General Practice. We have excellent
facilities at the Education Centre and
always aim to adapt what we do to the
needs of the group.
For more information about the Guildford
scheme please visit: www.guildfordvts.org
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Programme directors in Guildford:
Dr Simon Dunbar Dr Martin Brunet
Simon is a GP and Trainer as well as a Martin is a GP and Trainer in Godalming.
Programme Director. He enjoys teaching, He confesses to enjoying the use of IT in
particularly working with small groups. General Practice, and has developed the
Outside of medicine, he enjoys sports and Guildford VTS website. He has a self-
family life. taught love of art, particularly drawing
and oil painting, and is looking for a
Dr Catharine Humphrys publisher for his children’s adventure
Catharine is a GP in central Guildford; a novel.
GP Mentor and Joint Director of Medical
Education overseeing the delivery of the
GP Curriculum through hospital and into
General Practice. Areas of special interest
include Genitourinary Medicine and Child
and Adolescent Mental Health (she is a
UKCP registered Family Therapist). Her
interests include the theatre and singing.
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SURREY LOCAL
EDUCATION PROVIDERS

There are a number of Local The Local Education Providers in Surrey are:
Education Providers in the Surrey
patch participating in the KSS GP
School GPST programme. Rotations in Ashford and St SURREY AND BORDERS
hospital are currently of a four-month Peters Hospitals PARTNERSHIP NHS
duration.
NHS Trust foundation TRUST
• St Peter’s Hospital Please refer to page 78

Epsom & St Helier SURREY AND SUSSEX

University Hospitals HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST
NHS Trust • East Surrey Hospital
• Epsom General Hospital
Surrey PCT
Frimley Park • Walton Community Hospital
• Woking Community Hospital
Hospital NHS
Foundation trust The range of hospital posts in the
• Frimley Park Hospital programmes include:
Accident and Emergency, Paediatrics,
Phyllis Tuckwell Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Psychiatry, Care of the Elderly, General
Hospice Medicine, Palliative Care, ENT, Trauma
and Orthopaedics, Palliative Care,
Ophthalmology, Vascular Surgery,
ROYAL SURREY COUNTY Oncology, General Surgery. There are
also rotations in more specialised medical
HOSPITAL NHS TRUST rotations including Cardiology, Respiratory
• Royal Surrey County Hospital Medicine, Community Medicine and
Psychiatry.

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Ashford & St Peter’s

Hospitals NHS Trust
St Peter’s Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Chertsey

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust The GP Specialty Training at Ashford & St
St Peter’s Hospital serves a population of 450,000 including a Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust offers one of the
Guildford Road broad socio-economic and ethnic mix. The biggest GP Specialty training programmes in
Chertsey Trust provides a broad range of medical, the KSS Deanery. It currently has 21 three
Surrey KT16 0PZ surgical, diagnostic and emergency year rotations, with 18 months in hospital
services as well as a full range of medical posts and 18 months in General Practice.
outpatient specialities. The acute services In addition to the St Peter’s Hospital
Switchboard are provided at the St Peter’s hospital site, based posts, the trainee is also exposed
Telephone Number which has modern Intensive Care and to Psychiatry at the Abraham Cowley Unit
01932 722000 Coronary Care units and sees approximately which is based at St Peter’s. Each trainee
100,000 A&E attendances annually, with will also have the opportunity to do at least
Website a full general medical take supported by one Innovate Training Post, where time is
acute medical beds. The Ashford hospital shared between General Practice and the
www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk site provides the Trust’s 24 Hour Walk-in Hospital. Ashford & St Peters Hospitals
Centre and Rapid Access Centre, along NHS Trust is an excellent DGH with a
with Rehabilitation Wards. Ashford and St broad spread of specialties and an active
Peter’s have a combined total bed allocation well supported postgraduate centre. All
of approximately 600 beds. rotations give a balanced range of training
for General Practice.
Specialist Services
The Trust has a variety of specialist
services; specialist NICU, specialist
Orthopaedic services, Neurophysiology
services, Cardiac Angiography, Cardiac
MRI and Nuclear Cardiology. Within the
angiography suite cardiology undertakes
percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI),
Key Individuals electrophysiology studies and ablations,
biventricular device (pacemaker and ICD)
Director of Medical Education implantations. The Trust links with a number
Dr Peter Martin of tertiary units including Atkinson Morley,
Medical Education Manager Charing Cross, St Helier, St George’s,
Ms Angela Langwith-Green Harefield and Royal Brompton. The Trust
links with St Luke’s (Guildford) and the
GP Programme Directors Royal Marsden for cancer services.
Dr Tracey Collins
Dr Layth Delaimy
Dr Saba Khan

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Epsom & St Helier

University Hospitals
NHS Trust
Epsom General Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Epsom

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals
Dorking Road NHS Trust is a large 700+ bed acute
Epsom Trust serving South West London and
Surrey KT18 7EG Surrey. It comprises one acute hospital in
Carshalton and a district general hospital
in Epsom, a dedicated children’s hospital
Switchboard (Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children) the
Telephone Number South West London Elective Orthopaedic
01372 735735 Centre (SWLEOC), one supporting
hospital at Sutton and one private patient
Website unit and provides services from a number
of support hospitals. The Trust works
www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk
closely with two primary care Trusts,
Sutton and Merton PCT and Surrey PCT
and provides services to local communities
including the entire London Borough of
Sutton, part of the London Borough of
Merton, the Surrey boroughs of Epsom
and Ewell, Reigate and Banstead and
Elmbridge, plus part of the district council
of Mole Valley. Within this area the Trust
provides care for approximately 500,000
people. It also provides medical care
for a wider population particularly for
certain specialist services, including Renal,
Paediatrics, Pathology and Orthopaedics.
Clinical Services in the Trust are organised
into seven directorates: General and
Emergency Medical Services.
Specialty Medicine, Renal and Cancer
services, Women’s and Children’s services,
Surgery, Critical Care and Anaesthetics,
and Diagnostics and Pharmacy, supported
by a number of corporate directorates.
The Trust has a good reputation for
undergraduate and postgraduate
education. There is a well equipped
Medical Education Centre and library on
each main hospital site.
For more information about the Trust see
the website www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk.

Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Oliver Duke
Medical Education Manager
Ms Vivien Martin
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FRIMLEY PARK HOSPITAL

NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Frimley Park Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Frimley

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address Frimley Park is a 700 bedded NHS The PGEC has its own restaurant which is
Portsmouth Road Foundation Trust near Camberley in Surrey well used by all medical staff in the Trust
Frimley serving a local population of approximately and local General Practitioners. All of the
Surrey GU16 7UJ 400,000. The hospital is situated just off seminar rooms are well furnished and
junction 4 of the M3 with quick and easy equipped. The Centre also has a purpose
access to London by car or train and is built clinical skills unit with simulation
Switchboard roughly an hour from the south coast. It is equipment. The lecture theatre, skills
Telephone Number host to a MDHU which means that Armed room and seminar rooms all have live links
01276 604604 Forces doctors and other military personnel to theatres, endoscopy and radiology. The
are integrated into the hospital workforce. PGEC has a small PC Suite and Wireless
Website Frimley Park has an excellent reputation access is coming soon. The Health
as a dynamic successful Foundation Trust Services library is situated above the
www.frimleypark.nhs.uk with a high rate of doctors choosing to PGEC. It provides a wide range of services
return to work here. We are the proud and also houses a PC suite.
possessor of a double-excellent rating for
services to patients and use of resources
in the Healthcare Commission’s Annual
Healthcheck for the second year running,
one of only 12 in the country to receive
this two year’s in a row. The Trust is also
one of the few nationally to hold NHSLA
level 3 for acute services and maternity
services. There is an excellent purpose built
Centre which is the hub for Medical Staff.

Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Mrs Geeta Menon
Medical Education Manager
Mrs Lynn Moran
GP Administrator
Ms Kimberley Manning

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The Phyllis Tuckwell
Hospice
GP Training Programme area: Guildford
About the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice
Address The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice offers
The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Specialist Palliative Care to those facing
Waverley Lane the end of their life and to those who love
Farnham and care for them, serving a population
Surrey GU9 8BL of 600,000 across West Surrey and North
East Hampshire.
Switchboard The Hospice has a team of Community
Nurse Specialists who visits patients in
Telephone Number their own homes, a Day Hospice facility,
01252 729400 complementary therapies and in-patient
hospice care.
The Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice has 14 beds
on Willow Ward, with 10 single rooms
and a 4-bedded bay for female patients.
The ward has four times the average
nurse-patient ratio found in a hospital,
and this is reflected in the amount of time
spent on nursing care for each individual
patient. There are also four doctors who
are responsible for the day-to-day medical
care on the wards and in Day Care.
Where possible, patients are given a
choice of accommodation they would
prefer. Priority is always given to ensure
that the dignity and privacy of our
patients is maintained at all times.
Key Individuals
Medical Director
Dr Cate Seton-Jones
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Each room is equipped with a television
and the Hospice has an extensive video/
DVD library for the use of patients.
There is a large sitting room for in-
patients, their families and friends, and
coffee and tea making facilities are
available. There is also an inner courtyard
area to be enjoyed and spacious gardens
surround the Hospice
The Day Hospice is one of the busiest
places in the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice. The
patients who visit the Day Hospice come
for a variety of reasons - some come for
the companionship and activities, others
come for specialist medical or nursing
care, others visit to allow their carers a
respite one day a week. All of the patients
are able to live at home but can take
advantage of all of the Hospice’s services,
such as complementary therapies,
physiotherapy, occupational therapy, the
library or nursing care.
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Royal Surrey
County Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust
Royal Surrey County Hospital
GP Training Programme Patch: Guildford

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address Royal Surrey County Hospital is a district
Egerton Road general hospital with a few differences.
Guildford It has a tertiary referral cancer centre (St.
Surrey GU2 7XX Lukes) providing care for patients from a
large catchment area. Many surgical firms
also offer complex surgery to patients
Switchboard from a wide area. There is an efficient,
Telephone Number well run A&E department with separate
01483 571122 medical and surgical assessment units.
Stroke services include an acute stroke
Website unit and 24/7 thrombolysis. There are
strong links with University of Surrey
www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk supporting academic excellence.
www.guildfordvts.org
Our 4 month posts rotate across a wide
range of specialties including Paediatrics,
Obs & Gynae, Oncology, Palliative
Care, Psychiatry as well as integrated
posts (with GP) such as Genito-Urinary
Medicine and Neurology or Dermatology.
The Education Centre is on site and
houses a library with 24 hour access and a
local simulation suite for clinical teaching
and a communication skills room.

Key Individuals
Directors of Medical Education (Joint)
Dr Helen Wilson (Consultant)
Dr Cath Humphrys (GP)
Medical Education Manager
Mrs Louise Duffield
GP Programme Directors
Dr Martin Brunet
Dr Simon Dunbar
Dr Cath Humphrys
GPST Coordinator
Mrs Ali Saunders

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St Catherine’s Hospice
GP Training Programme area: Crawley
About the St Catherine’s hospice
Address St Catherine’s Hospice is a charity
Malthouse Road dedicated to providing specialised end of
Crawley life care and support to local people, their
West Sussex RH10 6BH families, friends and carers.
For 25 years we have been providing high
Switchboard quality hospice care, free of charge, to
people living in Crawley, Horsham, Mid
Telephone Number Sussex and South-East Surrey. Hospice
01293 447333 care is based on the belief that each
person is more than their illness, and that
each of us has unique physical, emotional,
social and spiritual needs. St Catherine’s
responds to the needs of each individual,
helping people achieve the best possible
quality of life.
This highly personal, holistic approach
to care takes time, skill and experience
from a multi-professional team. We care
for people in the hospice, in their homes
and in nursing homes. We also provide
training, advice and support to other
health professionals.
• T hrough expert assessment and
regular monitoring we aim to relieve
pain, symptoms and side-effects of
illness
• W
 e enable people to receive care,
treatments and therapies directly,
wherever they live, through liaison
with other healthcare professionals
and by providing 24 hour telephone
support
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• W
 e help people retain their
independence, mobility and sense of
control by providing practical help,
equipment and advice
• W
 e help restore self confidence
and well-being by giving patients
the opportunity to meet socially,
gain support from others in similar
circumstances, and benefit from
relaxation therapies
• W
 e give patients and their loved ones
opportunities to discuss their thoughts
and feelings which can relieve fears
and anxieties
• W
 e help people plan for the future
so that they can enjoy life as fully as
possible
• W
 here possible we support patients’
carers by providing respite care, giving
people a much needed break from
their caring role
• W
 e provide open and honest
explanation to questions, enabling
people to make informed choices and
have greater control throughout the
dying process
• W
 e support people as their condition
deteriorates, helping families,
carers and friends to prepare for
bereavement
• W
 e provide ongoing support to
families and carers in bereavement,
from simple practical advice through
to counselling services
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Surrey and Borders

Partnership NHS
FOUNDATION Trust
GP Training Programme Areas: North West (Chertsey, Walton on Thames, Ashford),
East and Mid Surrey (Reigate, Redhill, Caterham on the Hill, Epsom, East Molesey,
Dorking, Leatherhead), South West (Frimley and Guildford)

About Surrey and Borders Partnership Trust

Trust Headquarters Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS
8 Mole Business Park Foundation Trust provides health and social
Leatherhead care services for people with mental health
Surrey KT22 7AD illness, drug and alcohol addictions and
learning disabilities across Surrey and North
East Hampshire. As one of the largest
Switchboard mental health and learning disability Trusts
Telephone Number in the country we employee over 3,400
01883 383838 people who work across 127 sites serving
1.3 million people of all ages.
In addition to serving Surrey and North
East Hampshire we provide specific
services across our borders, namely:
• L earning disability social care services
in both Croydon and Hampshire
• M
 inor provision of specialist mental
health services in Croydon
• D
 rug and alcohol services in
Hampshire
Placements for GPStR Psychiatry rotations
within the Surrey and Borders Partnership
NHS Foundation Trust maybe located at
one of the following facilities:
South West Surrey
Ridgewood Centre – Frimley
Sycamore House – Camberley
Frimley Childrens Centre – Frimley
Farnham Road Hospital – Guildford
Buryfields Clinic – Guildford
North West Surrey
Abraham Cowley Unit – Chertsey
Napier House – Walton on Thames
The Cedar Unit – Ashford
Ashford Hospital - Ashford
Bourne House – Chertsey
East and Mid Surrey
Farmside – Epsom
Joseph Palmer Centre – East Molesey
Shaw’s Corner – Reigate
Langley House – Oxted
Meadows – Epsom
Tylney House – Leatherhead
Dene Street Clinic – Dorking

Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education Medical Education Managers
Dr Sunil Babu Elizabeth Coulson – South West Surrey
Robin Forward – East and Mid Surrey
Training Programme Director/Clinical
Maggie Reynolds – North West Surrey
Tutor
Dr Philip Hall
College Tutors
Dr Deepa Deo
Farida Yousaf

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Healthcare NHS trust
East Surrey Hospital
GP Training Programme areas: Guildford, Crawley and East Surrey
Overview of Training at the Trust
Address East Surrey Hospital is situated 2 miles
Canada Avenue south of Redhill Town Centre. The towns
Redhill of Redhill and Reigate have excellent
Surrey shopping, entertainment and sports
RH1 5RH facilities. There is a fast train service from
Redhill to Central London (approximately
30 minutes) and 15 minutes to Gatwick
Switchboard Airport. There is easy access to the coast
Telephone Number at Brighton and other parts of Surrey
01737 768511 and the Southeast via J8 of the M25
motorway at Reigate. Local areas of
Website interest include the North Downs for
walking and biking, flying at Redhill
www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk Aerodrome, horse racing at nearby
Lingfield Park all weather course, theatres
and cinemas in Redhill, Reigate and
Crawley.
Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Dr Ivor Lewis
Medical Education Manager
Nisha Patel
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The Trust provides training opportunities
for all staff within the Trust. There is a
newly refurbished Doctors’ Mess, regular
lunchtime teaching in the Medical
Education Centre and a Clinical Skills
room in the Medical Education Centre.
There is a library at East Surrey Hospital
providing access to traditional services
and resources as well as PCs with internet
access on a 24 hour basis. Local Public
transport (buses) will take you to most of
the surrounding areas (Dorking, Redhill,
Caterham, Crawley, Horley etc). Redhill
station is approximately 10/15 minutes
bus journey from East Surrey Hospital.
GP Programme Directors
Dr Terry Conaty
Mr Graham Carr
Dr Bob Ward
Dr Heidi Fahey
Dr Pippa Woolner
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Surrey PCT
GP Training Programme Areas: Chertsey

Overview of Training at the Trust

Trust Headquarters Surrey Primary Care Trust (PCT) was GP Training Programme in Chertsey uses
Cedar Court formed on 1st October 2006, bringing two hospitals run by the Surrey PCT,
Guildford Road together the five former PCTs within Woking Community Hospital and Walton
Leatherhead Surrey namely; North Surrey, East Community Hospital. Each has one
Surrey KT22 9AE Elmbridge and Mid-Surrey, East Surrey, placement for Elderly Rehab rotation.
Surrey Heath and Woking and Guildford
& Waverley PCTs. Surrey PCT serves a
Telephone Number population of 1.2 million people and in
Woking Community Hospital
01372 201500 Heathside Road
2008 had a budget of around £1.3 billion
Woking
to spend on local healthcare.
Surrey GU22 7HS
Fax: Tel: 01483 715911
01372 201706 The functions of the PCT are:
• E ngaging with its local population to Walton Community Hospital
improve health and well-being Rodney Road
• C
 ommissioning a comprehensive Walton-on-Thames
and equitable range of high quality Surrey KT12 3LD
responsive and efficient services, Tel: 01932 220060
within allocated resources
• D
 irectly providing high quality
responsive and efficient services where
this gives best value

The PCT works closely with GPs,

dentists, opticians and pharmacists and
also provide many community services
ourselves – e.g. district and school
nursing, health visiting, therapy services
and the running of our community
hospitals – under the umbrella of Surrey
Community Health Services.

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Training Practices in the Chertsey GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Chertsey & Ashford Ashley Medical Practice 1A Crutchfield Lane Walton on Thames KT12 2QY
Chertsey & Ashford Chobham Surgery 16 Windsor Road Chobham Surrey GU24 8NA
Chertsey & Ashford Church Street Practice Weybridge Surrey KT13 8DW
Chertsey & Ashford Crouch Oak Family Practice Addlestone Health Centre 45 Station Road Addlestone KT15 2BH
Weybridge
Chertsey & Ashford Heathcot Medical Practice York House Medical Ctr Heathside Road Woking GU22 7XL
Chertsey & Ashford Hillview Medical Centre 3 Heathside Road Woking Surrey GU22 7QP
Chertsey & Ashford Parishes Bridge Practice The Health Centre Madeira Road West Byfleet KT14 6DH
Chertsey & Ashford Runnymede Medical Practice The Health Centre Bond Street Englefield TW20 0PF
Green
Chertsey & Ashford Shepperton Medical Practice Laleham Road Shepperton Middlesex TW17 8EJ
Chertsey & Ashford Studholme Medical Centre 50 Church Road Ashford Middlesex TW15 2TU
Chertsey & Ashford Sunny Meed Surgery 15/17 Heathside Road Woking Surrey GU22 7EY
Chertsey & Ashford The Abbey Practice Chertsey Family Health Ctr Stepgates Chertsey KT16 8HZ
Chertsey & Ashford The Bridge Practice Chertsey Family Health Ctr Stepgates Chertsey KT16 8HZ
Chertsey & Ashford The Cummin’s Practice West Byfleet Medical Centre Madeira Road West Byfleet KT14 6DH
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Training Practice in the Crawley and East Surrey (CRESH)

GP Training Programme Area
Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
East Surrey Birchwood Medical Practice Health Centre Kings Road Horley RH6 7DG
Crawley & Horsham Bridge Medical Centre Wassand Close Three Bridges Crawley RH10 1LL
East Surrey Caterham Valley Medical Centre Eothen House Eothen Close Caterham CR3 6JU
Crawley & Horsham Coachmans Medical Centre Coachman’s Drive Broadfield Crawley RH11 9YZ
East Surrey Elizabeth House Practice 515 Limpsfield Road Warlingham Surrey CR3 5XL
Crawley & Horsham Furnace Green Surgery 50 The Glade Furnace Green Crawley RH10 6JH
Crawley & Horsham Gossops Green Medical Centre Hurst Close Gossops Green Crawley RH11 8TY
East Surrey Greystone House 99 Station Road Redhill Surrey RH1 1EB
Crawley & Horsham Holbrook Surgery Bartholomew Way Horsham West Sussex RH12 5JL
Crawley & Horsham Ifield Medical Practice 218 Ifield Drive Ifield Crawley RH11 0EP
East Surrey Langley Corner Ifield Green Ifield Crawley RH11 0NF
Crawley & Horsham Leacroft Medical Practice 117 Ifield Road Crawley RH11 7BS
East Surrey Medwyn Surgery Reigate Road DORKING RH4 1SD
Crawley & Horsham Saxonbrook Medical Centre Maidenbower Square Maidenbower Crawley RH10 7QH
East Surrey Smallfield Surgery Wheelers Lane Smallfield RH6 9PT
East Surrey Tadworth Medical Centre 1 Troy Close Tadworth Surrey KT20 5JE
East Surrey The Leith Hill Practice Northbrook Warwick Road South RH5 4NE
East Surrey The Moat House Worsted Green Merstham Rh1 3PN
East Surrey The Surgery Tanners Meadow Brockham Betchworth RH3 7NJ
East Surrey The Wall House Surgery Yorke Road Reigate RH2 9HG
East Surrey Townhill Medical Practice Guards Avenue Caterham CR3 5XL
Crawley & Horsham Woodlands Surgery Tilgate Way Tilgate Crawley RH10 5BS

Training Practices in the Epsom GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Epsom & St Helier Ashley Centre Surgery Ashley Square Epsom Surrey KT18 8DD
Epsom & St Helier Capelfield Surgery Elm Road Claygate KT10 0EH
Epsom & St Helier Fairfield Medical Centre Lower Road Great Bookham Surrey KT23 4DH
Epsom & St Helier Fitznells Manor Surgery 2 Chessington Road Ewell Surrey KT17 1TF
Epsom & St Helier Gilbert House 39 Woodfield Lane Ashtead KT21 2BQ
Epsom & St Helier Glenlyn Medical Centre 115 Molesey Park Road East Molesey KT8 0JX
Epsom & St Helier Heathcote Medical Centre Heathcote Tadworth KT20 5TH
Epsom & St Helier The Ashlea Medical Practice Gilbert House Surgery 39 Woodfield Lane Ashtead KT21 2BQ
Epsom & St Helier The Old Cottage Hospital Alexandra Road Epsom Surrey KT17 4BL

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Training Practices in the Frimley GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Frimley 68 Giffard Drive Cove Farnborough Hampshire GU14 8QB
Frimley Alexander House 2 Salisbury Road Farnborough Hants GU14 7AW
Frimley Alexandra Surgery 2 Wellington Avenue Aldershot Hampshire GU11 1SD
Frimley Camberley Health Centre 159 Frimley Road Camberley Surrey GU15 2QA
Frimley Downing Street Group Practice 4 Downing Street Farnham GU9 7PA
Frimley Farnham Dene Medical Practice Farnham Centre for Health Hale Road Farnham GU9 9QS
Frimley Fleet Medical Centre Church Road Fleet Hants GU51 4PE
Frimley Frimley Green Medical Centre 1 Beech Road Camberley Surrey GU16 6QQ
Frimley Hartley Corner 51 Frogmore Road Blackwater Camberley GU17 0DB
Frimley Heatherside Surgery 72 Cumberland Road Camberley Surrey GU15 1SE
Frimley Holly Tree Surgery 42 Boundstone Road Farnham Surrey GU9 4TG
Frimley Mayfield Medical Centre Croyde Close Farnborough Hants GU14 8UE
Frimley Milestone Surgery 208 Farnborough Road Farnborough Hampshire GU14 7JN
Frimley Monteagle Surgery Monteagle Park Tesimond Drive Yateley GU46 6FE
Frimley Park Road Surgery 143 Park Road Camberley Surrey GU15 2NN
Frimley Sandhurst Group Practice 72 Yorktown Road Sandhurst Berkshire GU47 9BT
Frimley Sandhurst Group Practice 1 Cambridge Road Owlsmoor Sandhurst GU47 0UB
Frimley Southlea Group Practice 276 Lower Farnham Road Aldershot GU11 3RB
Frimley Upper Gordon Road Surgery 37 Upper Gordon Road Camberley Surrey GU19 5HJ

Training Practices in the Guildford GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Guildford Binscombe Medical Centre 106 Binscombe Godalming Surrey GU7 3PR
Guildford Chiddingfold Surgery Ridgley Road Chiddingfold Surrey GU8 4QP
Guildford Cranleigh Health Centre 18 High Street Cranleigh Surrey GU6 8AE
Guildford Dapdune House Surgery Wharf Road Guildford Surrey GU1 4RP
Guildford Fairlands Medical Centre Fairlands Avenue Worplesdon Guildford GU3 3NA
Guildford Grayshott Surgery Boundary Road Hindhead Surrey GU26 6TY
Guildford Guildowns Group Practice 2 Stoughton Road Guildford Surrey GU1 1LL
Guildford Haslemere Health Centre Church Lane Haslemere Surrey GU27 2BQ
Guildford Milford Crossroads Surgery Church Road Milford Godalming GU8 5JD
Guildford Shere Surgery Gomshall Lane Shere Surrey GU5 9DR
Guildford St Luke’s Surgery Warren Road Guildford Surrey GU1 3JH
Guildford The Abbey Practice Chertsey Family Health Ctr Stepgates Chertsey KT16 8HZ
Guildford The Medical Centre Kingston Avenue East Horsley Leatherhead KT24 6QT
Guildford The Mill Medical Practice Catteshall Mill Catteshall Road Godalming GU7 1JW
Guildford The Wonersh Surgery The Street Wonersh GUILDFORD GU5 0PE
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About SUSSEX
Sussex is centrally located on the
coast of southern England, and has
large areas of green and pleasant
countryside, vibrant and varied cities
and towns plus miles of south facing
sunny seaside.
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The city of Brighton offers a mix of history
and culture, sophisticated shopping,
buzzy restaurants and glittering nightlife –
with the laid-back charms of the seaside.
14 miles of coastline, including the
award-winning beaches of Bognor Regis
and Littlehampton, make Sussex by the
sea a popular spot for families. The town
of Worthing also has lots to offer with
its theatres, restaurants and shopping. A
few miles inland is photogenic Arundel
with its castle and antique shops, and the
beautiful South Downs. The Roman city
of Chichester has an imposing cathedral,
a major art gallery and the renowned
Chichester Festival Theatre, plus the
wildlife-rich inlets and bays of Chichester
Harbour and the beaches of West
Wittering and East Head.
To the east is 1066 Country, with the site
of the Battle of Hastings, and on the coast,
the old Cinque Port of Rye, bohemian
Hastings and nearby Bexhill, and pretty
countryside inland. Along the coast is
Eastbourne, a seaside resort with award-
winning beaches and a grand promenade
leading to the iconic white chalk cliffs of
Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters. This
area offers lovely scenic walks along the
coast and through picturesque villages,
with great views over the Channel.
Mid-Sussex contains charming villages,
windmills and the spectacular Balcombe
viaduct. There is also Ashdown Forest,
where you can visit “pooh sticks bridge”.
If you spend your time throwing sticks
upstream of the bridge, you’ll be enacting
the famous game associated with Winnie-
the-Pooh!
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Sussex is easily accessible from the rest of

the country and overseas, with good rail
links via London and direct services from
Scotland, the North West, Midlands and
South Wales. Sussex also has two airports
and a ferry port - Gatwick Airport in the
north of the county, Shoreham Airport
to the west and Newhaven ferry port in
the east. From the M25 London orbital,
several roads head south into Sussex and
the coast, including the A21 to Hastings
and Battle, the M23/A23 to Brighton and
the A286 to Chichester.
Administratively, Sussex is split into two
Patches, East Sussex and West Sussex
each with a Patch Associate GP Dean,
Dr Mary-Rose Shears for East Sussex and
Dr Glyn Williams for West Sussex and
supported by the Sussex Patch Manager,
Sue Smith, who is based full-time at the
KSS Deanery Office in London Bridge.
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About Brighton
Brighton is often called “London-
on-Sea”. It is one the busiest most
diverse cities in the South East, and
has beaches, a busy city centre, the
chic and unique lifestyle shops of
The Lanes, a selection of galleries
and theatres, a vibrant and thriving
cultural scene and of course the
famous attractions of the Pier and
Pavilion. Brighton is well-connected
to London and the rest of the South
east, with a good public transport
network operating in Brighton and
along the South Coast.
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About the Brighton GP Training Programme
In Brighton we operate a shared training
programme working closely with Mid-
Sussex, so that during your training you will
be working at different sites throughout
both Brighton and Mid Sussex hospitals and
GP Practices. At the start of your training
you are allocated to a GP Trainer who will
remain as your Educational Supervisor for
the duration of your training. You will have
an opportunity to meet with them regularly
throughout the year to discuss your
educational needs, development and plans.
In both ST1 and ST2 years you will spend a
minimum of 4 months working in a General
Practice placement culminating with a final
12 month placement in the ST3 year.
The majority of your hospital attachments
will be based at the Brighton and Sussex
University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust,
which incorporate The Royal Sussex County,
Brighton General and Sussex Eye Hospitals
in Brighton and Princess Royal Hospital in
Haywards Heath. The psychiatry placements
are with the Sussex Partnership Trust which
has several units throughout the area. You
can access further information via our GP
training Website www.brightongpvts.org.uk
We have a rolling GP Educational
Programme on Thursday afternoons which
provides an opportunity for trainees to meet
each other and the Programme Directors.
This is an informal forum where we address
difficulties trainees may be facing as well as
focusing on some of the more challenging
aspects of General Practice. The formal part
of the afternoon focuses on GP relevant
education and involves a mix of small group
work, trainee-led sessions and consultant
lectures. We also have sessions focusing on
preparation for the MRCGP membership
exams and life after training.
The formal component of the education
programme is based at the Audrey
Emerton Medical Education Centre which
is the administrative base for the Specialty
Training Programme and the main training
facility on the Royal Sussex County
Hospital campus. It is one of the many new
developments within the Trust and provides
state of the art facilities for training as well
as a restaurant with sea views on the top
floor. Some group workshops and locality
learning sets take place in training practices
locally and for our overnight residential
teaching program we hire country hotels in
the area.
In the Thursday teaching sessions we cover
a mix of formal topics based on the GP
curriculum as well as broader topics such as
communication skills, ethics and GP related
management.
Our term timetable is posted on our Website
http://www.brightongpvts.org.uk/timetable
In addition to this we arrange several full
day GP training workshops which are
run by local GP Trainers. This is a formal
education programme which provides an
opportunity to meet the local trainers in
your area. Three times per year you will
meet in your locality in small group ‘learning
sets’ with GP Trainers and focus on locally
agreed educational topics. Twice a year, in
conjunction with our colleagues in Mid-
Sussex we try to arrange a 2 day overnight

The East Sussex patch contains 4 GP Training
Programme Areas: Brighton, Eastbourne
Hastings and Mid-Sussex and includes the
towns of Hastings, Eastbourne, Bexhill and
Brighton as well as rural areas of East
and mid Sussex
‘Residential’ event often in a country hotel
when we focus on group work to tackle
broader and more challenging topics in
relaxing surroundings. This is a unique
opportunity to get to know your fellow
trainees, relax, have some fun and learn
without external pressures. In addition to all
of this we will organise occasional one-off
sessions for trainees in hospital posts. These
can be a mix of social and formal education
events which again give you an opportunity
to meet up with one another. Finally it is
worth mentioning that most GPStRs form
small study groups especially in the run up
to exams. These groups often continue
after qualification and are a useful support
network for newly qualified GPs.
As well as our standard GP posts we also
offer a few Innovative Training Posts (ITP)
when you are based in General Practice,
but spend 2 days per week in hospital
working within certain specialities.
Currently we offer these posts in Genito-
Urinary Medicine, A&E, Dermatology,
Ophthalmology and Palliative Care. Due to
the popularity of Brighton as a VTS scheme
some GP placements in ST1 and 2 may take
place in practices in Mid-Sussex, Crawley or
Worthing.
Throughout the year we also try and plan
social events for everyone such as evening
meals or barbeques. Our GPStRs also
organise social events and have formed a
group on Facebook. (Brighton and Mid-
Sussex VTS).
Both during your placements in general
practice and in the hospital posts, the
culturally diverse population of Brighton
will provide a unique exposure to a wide
range of clinical settings and patient groups
from all social classes. In addition to the
core specialities we offer attachments
in HIV Medicine, Substance Misuse,
Learning Difficulties and Ophthalmology.
We believe this wide exposure will help
equip you in the process of becoming a
competent, well rounded and motivated
GP who is comfortable working in any GP
environment.
We have three Programme Directors
in Brighton who are involved with the
recruitment of GPStRs and allocation of
posts on the rotation. They also organise,
oversee and run the GP Training Programme
for all three years. Dr Andy Starling has
been a Programme Director since 2004 and
is a GP Partner/trainer in Peacehaven. Drs
Christine Habgood and David Supple are
both local trainers who are taking up the
challenge of programme directing following
the “retirement” of Andy’s colleagues this
summer. They all adopt an ‘open door’
policy and are happy to help with any
queries or concerns that you may have.
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The Programme
Directors in the
Brighton GP Training
Programme Area are:
Dr Andy Starling
Andy has been a Programme Director
since 2004 and has been a GP trainer
since 2001. He has seen several PDs
come and go in Brighton but continues
to tough out this varied, challenging and
ultimately most rewarding responsibility.
The new team in Brighton are all local
trainers for the first time, so we eagerly
anticipate new and exciting things!
Dr Christine Habgood
Christine is a GP and trainer in Mile Oak
and commenced post as Programme
Director in August 2010.
Dr David Supple
David is a GP and trainer near Preston
Park in Brighton. He commenced as a
Programme Director in July 2010.
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About Eastbourne
The seaside resort of Eastbourne is a
grand Victorian beauty, set in South
Downs countryside and surrounded by
1066 heritage. The resort has Blue Flag
beaches, national beauty spot Beachy
Head, and summer night concerts on
the seafront bandstand.
Eastbourne hosts the International
Women’s Open tennis championship,
held at the Devonshire Park. Attracting
top tennis players from around the
world, it is regarded as the pre-
Wimbledon main event. Since last year
it also hosts some men’s tennis.
Eastbourne Seafront is the venue
for the popular Airbourne air show
attracting visitor nationwide.
Eastbourne has 5 miles of promenade,
five theatres, a pier and a thriving
night life.
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About the Eastbourne GP Training Programme
GPStRs are encouraged and supported
in this stimulating environment. Their
experience of a wide range of medicine in
both hospital and community settings is
broad. This practical experience is carefully
supervised by dynamic teachers. Our
scheme develops the skills and enthusiasm
of Eastbourne’s future general practitioners.
In 2011 we will be offering 11 individual 3
year training programmes. All hospital posts
are on a four-month rotation. The rotations
include hospital jobs selected from:
accident and emergency, general medicine,
orthopaedics, paediatrics, obstetrics and
gynaecology and psychiatry - both general
and elderly.
In 2010, we piloted trainee self-selection
of their rotations: it was not possible for
everyone to have their first choice, but
the general feedback was positive as a
way of trainee empowerment. We actively
encourage members of the scheme to be
Reps to the local academic boards, the
Deanery GPStR subcommittee and the very
important role(!) of social rep.
Eastbourne has embraced the ITPs
(Integrated Training Posts), starting with
two (Ophthalmology and ENT) in 2008. In
2009, we extended the range to include
Dermatology and GU Medicine. All our
GPStRs spend at least 4 months in an ITP
during their ST1 or ST2 year. During the
ITP, the GPStR spends half their time in
a training Practice and the other half in
a speciality which will complement their
individual learning and training programme.
Our main aims remain the provision of
a package of educational and personal
support to enable our scheme members to
develop into competent and confident GPs.
We usually meet at Eastbourne DGH
medical education centre, and episodically
we meet at a community venue, such as
the hospice or a local practice, on Thursdays
at 12.30pm. Twice a term we have an all
day Thursday meeting, for which those
in hospital jobs get study leave – these
meetings are usually a joint meeting with a
neighbouring scheme. On other Thursdays,
ST1s and 2s can often come for lunch or
part of the afternoon, depending on their
commitments and we encourage this.
Those in general practice attend each week
as it is a protected teaching session for
them.
The sessions cover a very broad spectrum,
drawing on the GP curriculum for
inspiration – the timetables are designed by
the Programme Directors who couldn’t and
wouldn’t want to do it without maximal
input from our GPStRs. Outside speakers,
local GPs and Consultants and of course
the wide knowledge base of our own
GPStRs are exploited to make this a vibrant
interactive afternoon.
The informal parts of the afternoon – the
ad hoc discussions – allow specific issues
encountered to be raised. Not surprisingly,
the RCGP assessments are discussed
frequently. We have held specific sessions to
prepare the scheme members for the CSA,
with visiting examiners and Programme
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The Programme Directors in the Eastbourne

GP Training Programme Area are:
Directors from other schemes. We consider Dr Andrew Stewart Dr Heinrich Van Wyk MB Ch B,
peer support an important part of the Andrew has been a GP Trainer since MRCGP, DFSRH
scheme – and many friendships are made in August 2003. He comes from a Practice Heinrich qualified as a GP 3 years ago
these continuing group learning sets. with a strong heritage in training – the from Eastbourne VTS Scheme and took
This term we have had a very successful Lighthouse Medical Practice has had three up a partnership at Stone Cross Surgery
workshop using patient simulators, partners over the years who have been soon after qualifying. He has always been
enabling trainees to practice their consulting Programme Directors and seven partners passionate about high quality education
skills. We’ve also had clinical talks on who have been GP Trainers and three and became a PD in Eastbourne 1year
ophthalmology, joint examination and who have been FY2 Clinical Supervisors ago to be part of the excellent scheme
entertaining presentations by GPStRs on He became a Programme Director on the South Coast. Having experienced
topics such as “my favourite website”. four years ago and has delighted in the training on the scheme first hand he
further improving the quality of the strived to contribute to the excellence
We have regular meetings with other
Eastbourne scheme, forging links with of the scheme by using his perspective
GPStRs, including those who have recently
other programme directors and with the from a trainee’s point of view. He hopes
left the training programme, the GP Trainers
Hastings scheme. to reflect this understanding in his role as
and GP Programme Directors. Our events
Andrew has just completed the PGCert in PD. He is currently undertaking PGCert
occur at least three times a year and include
Practice Education through London South in Medical education via the University of
meals out, bowling and walking on the
Bank University Dundee.
Downs. GP training in Eastbourne has a very
His interest is “building bridges” and to
good reputation locally. All our GPStRs who
Dr Raya Al-Jawaheri this effect he is responsible for overseeing
want to stay locally find jobs both as partners
Raya finished the Eastbourne GP Scheme the local ITP’s and forging strong bonds
and salaried doctors. Our scheme prepares
in 2005 and is a partner at the Grove with nearby schemes with an aim to work
doctors well for “life after GP training”.
Road Surgery. She works as the clinical together and share ideas. As a trainee
We have one residential course each director for the local walk in centre and PD he would recommend the scheme
year to which all our GP registrars are in Eastbourne She was appointed to anyone wishing a balanced and well
invited. During this course, we develop Programme Director in November 2008. rounded education as a GP!
communication skills through group She is a GP registrar trainer.
discussions and role plays. There is also an
opportunity for ST3s to practice CSA skills.
In addition, we run 3-4 CSA skills days,
to practice scenarios with simulators, and
receive feedback from GP trainers and CSA
examiners.
Throughout the year, there are various social
events such as a summer BBQ; recently we
had a Treasure Hunt, which we enjoyed
thoroughly.
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About Hastings
Hastings has a history as a thriving
fishing village, and the wooden net-
drying huts along the beachfront are
world-famous. It is also the heart of
“1066 country” with Hastings and
Pevensey being excellent examples
of Norman castles, and Battle Abbey
marking the site of the Battle of
Hastings. Hastings also has a rich history
as a smuggling port, and has several
museums, and Hastings still has its
working funicular railways from its time
as a Victorian resort, one at East Hill and
the other, West Hill, which is the oldest
working railway of its type in England.
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Hastings
About the Hastings GP Training Programme
The Hastings General Practice Specialty Sample topics have previously included:
Training Programme is based at the Introduction to dermatology / Psoriasis and
Conquest Hospital in Hastings. The Conquest acne with a Consultant Dermatologist
hospital is a District General Hospital which
opened in 1992 and was further expanded The Consultation – methods of looking
in 1997 and is run by East Sussex Hospitals at consultations, 6 category intervention
NHS Trust. The hospital is a modern complex analysis, Cambridge Calgary models, etc.
set in the heart of historic 1066 country and Preparation for problem based learning
surrounded by the beautiful countryside
and coastline of East Sussex. London is Videos, interesting cases and problems from
only 95 minutes away by train, and the general practice
Channel Tunnel and Eurostar international Presentation for problem based learning
station are within easy reach. We invite all
the GPStRs (ST1,2 &3) to meet with us on Visit to St Michael’s Hospice – ‘talking with
a Thursday afternoon for our varied GP patients’ with hospice Medical Director
teaching sessions. Our learning set is held Medical Ethics
at the Medical Education Centre, Conquest
Hospital over 3 terms each year. This is Urology – prostate cancer and screening with
a modern and extremely well equipped a Consultant Urologist
purpose built building, with a library that
Shared study days at Eastbourne
bristles with new workstations for easy
access to the hospital Intranet and the Heart Failure, NICE guidelines – how to
Internet. All GPStRs are able to attend the implement in General Practice with a
sessions and have a major input into the Consultant Cardiologist Ballint Group
content and structure of them. We strive to
promote a relaxed and informal atmosphere.
We also hold a two-day residential course
each year in a local country hotel. Noted for
its mix of learning and fun, it has become
a high point in the year for everyone. This
year we covered topics including reflective
writing and managing your accounts as a GP.
There were also many games to enable the
group to get to know each other better. The
feedback this year has been very positive.

We currently have 21 GPStRs. As of August
2010 all GPStRs will spend at least 20
months in general practice. For most GPStRs
this involves a year or 16 months of general
practice experience at the end of the scheme
and a specialist ITP in the middle. In these
ITPs, GPStRs have the opportunity whilst
based in general practice to gain valuable
experiences in the local Hospice or the ENT
and dermatology departments. We are
looking to develop these posts further over
the next few years.
We encourage all the GPStRs to meet
regularly for various social events and these
are well received. We often meet for dinner
but we have also met for ice-skating,
Go Ape! and karaoke. We find our GPStRs
appreciate the values and approach of
our training programme. Often GPStRs
decide to work locally as they find the local
environment supportive. When asked about
the training programme, the current GPStRs
felt that there are a wide range of excellent
experiences to be had in Hastings.
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The Programme Directors in the Hastings GP
Training Programme Area are:
Dr Clare Ilsley Dr Robert Cameron-Wood
Clare first came to Hastings as a medical Robert has been a Programme Director
student and liked it so much she just since 2006. He is a full time partner in
kept coming back! First for house jobs a well established Practice in the town
and then after a time in New Zealand to centre. He has been a GP Trainer since
take up a place on the GPVTS finishing in 2003. He is mainly involved in running
2008. She has been a programme director the GP Trainers learning groups and the
since June 2009, and is enjoying the job running of learning sets which encourage
very much so far, she works part time as good working relationships betweens GPs
a locum at present, giving her lots of time and hospital consultants.
to organise an Interesting and stimulating He enjoys running, cycling and swimming
programme. Her areas of medical interest being a member of the 100 marathon
are Palliative care and mental health. club and takes part in the annual Long
distance walking 100mile event over a
Dr Karen Skinner weekend.
Karen has been a Programme Director
since 2007. She is a part time GP in
the area and is actively involved in the
Out of Hours scheme, including being
involved currently with a pilot project
to explore working in A and E. She
also has MRCOphth and works as a
member of the eye team in the local
eye department, involved in clinics and
on calls. She strongly believes in the
group environment being a great asset
to becoming a GP and encourages this
in the GP training programme. She is
embarking on the PG Cert this year and
is training to be a GP Trainer. In the spare
time she has left, she likes to attend the
gym and socialise.
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About Mid-Sussex
The Mid-Sussex and Brighton GP
Training Programmes work closely
together, and share hospital
placements. Application is to
“Brighton and Mid Sussex”. You need
to be aware that there are many
fewer places on the Brighton Scheme
than on the Mid Sussex scheme. We
believe Mid Sussex offers a fantastic
training experience and our trainees
would testify to that.
Mid-Sussex includes the towns of
Burgess Hill, East Grinstead, Horsham
and Haywards Heath. The area is
well-served by train links to London
and to the South Coast, and combines
the attractions of a rural setting with
busy towns and easy access to the
coast.
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Mid-Sussex
About the Mid-Sussex GP Training Programme
We are based in the Medical Education We meet on Thursday mornings for
Centre at the Princess Royal Hospital 30 weeks of the year at the Medical
which is an attractive, friendly hospital Education Centre in the Princess Royal
in Haywards Heath. We have a wide Hospital. Parking is easy. We have a
variety of hospital posts on our rotations competitive coffee rota with nice cakes
including O&G, Paediatrics, Medicine, and biscuits, and a delicious lunch all
A&E, Psychiatry, ENT, Opthalmology, together. The staff at the centre are
Substance Misuse, Learning Difficulties, pleasant and helpful. All trainees in
Orthopaedics and HIV Medicine. Some General Practice come to the Day Release
of these jobs are based in Brighton. All Course, and those in hospital jobs are
rotations have 4 months GP in both welcome to come subject to study leave
ST1 and ST2 years and in ST2 there is approval from their department. We feel
opportunity to do an Integrated Training learning with and from other GPStRs
Post (ITP) where you are partly based in is invaluable.
GP and partly in hospital (Dermatology,
Palliative Care, Opthalmology, GUM,
A+E). We currently have 34 GP Trainers,
some very experienced and some new,
but all enthusiastic both about training
and about General Practice. You will
know who your ST3 trainer will be from
the start of your rotation, and they will be
your Educational Supervisor to guide and
support you for the three years. Every six
weeks or so one trainer and GPStR run an
evening session which is both educational
and social.

We plan our sessions around the
stated needs of the GPStRs and the GP
curriculum and provide a variety of learning
experiences. We usually start with a GP
based session, for example discussing cases
people wish to talk about. We have a good
relationship with local consultants and often
they will come to do a question and answer
session on a subject relevant to General
Practice. Sometimes we go elsewhere
for teaching, for instance to the local
hospice for a day. We have two residential
workshops a year, much enjoyed by all. A
recent residential covered how to manage
depression without drugs and among other
subjects we looked at how to do Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy in a 10 minute
consultation and the value of laughter
therapy. We try to have a team building day
once a term as we believe that everyone
learns more effectively in a supportive
environment. There are often additional
social events throughout the year.
Our GPStRs often report that they look
forward to Thursdays as we have lots
of fun whilst learning. There is a strong
social element to our training programme.
Most of our GPStRs want to work locally
after completing their training and stay in
touch both with the training programme
and with each other.
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The Programme
Directors in the
Mid-Sussex GP Training
Programme Area are:
Dr Mandy Claiden
Mandy is an experienced GP Trainer who
is passionate about general practice and
training but best known for wearing flip
flops all year round!
Dr Lara Belle
Lara is a GP Trainer who has a special
interest in Dermatology. She (fairly)
recently graduated from the Mid Sussex
VTS and loved it too much to leave!.
Dr Liz Norris
Liz is a part-time partner and GP trainer in
East Grinstead. She became a Mid-Sussex
programme director in 2009.
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West Sussex
Chichester

About Chichester About the Chichester GP Training Programme

Chichester is a fantastic place to
live. It’s one of the largest inland
harbours in the country and is an area
of outstanding natural beauty. There
are ample opportunities for sailing,
windsurfing, kiting and other water
sports on the amazing beaches. It is
a beautiful Cathedral City set on the
edge of the South Downs National
Park which is superb for walking and
mountain biking. There are numerous
big events including Goodwood
Festival of Speed, the Revival, and
Glorious Goodwood etc. Chichester
has its own yearly festival, a fabulous
gallery and an excellent theatre with
many shows going to London. There
are also direct trains to London and
Brighton. Chichester has great shops
(high street to boutiques), bars and
restaurants – so there are plenty of
things to do to while away the time!
We have 18 rotations and all include
Medicine and Psychiatry and most include
a combination of Paediatrics, Obstetrics
&Gynaecology and Palliative Care either
as substantive hospital posts or ITPs. Also
part of the GP training programme are
A&E, Surgery and Orthopaedics.
Our Practices are in the rural parts of the
South Downs, in towns such as Arundel,
Bognor Regis, Southbourne, Witterings
and Chichester town centre. We are very
proud of our close working relationships
that we have with our hospital colleagues.
In Chichester we have organised three
locality groups for GPStRs and GP Trainers
which meet up for one afternoon every
two months (at a GP Training Practice)
which has excellent feedback from the
GPStRs, as those in hospital posts enjoy
catching up with other GPStR colleagues
and their GP Trainers.
GPStRs in their hospital posts will go to
their Educational Supervisors Practice for
1 day every 4 months to have a review
of their PDP, and their learning and
assessments, and to create the linkage
between the learning opportunities of
their specialty post and the GP curriculum.
A half day release course is held every
Thursday afternoon, in term time, for
those in GP placements (in all years) and
this follows an organised programme.
These afternoons provide opportunities
for learning but also mutual and peer
support.

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The West Sussex patch contains 2 GP
Training Programme Areas: Chichester and
Worthing.The patch extends along the
coast to include towns such as Bognor
Regis and Littlehampton and inland to
towns including Billingshurst, Henfield
and Pulborough.
Previous sessions have included Liquid
Based Cytology, the ‘heartsink’ patient,
CSA Top Tips, Pharmacology, CSA
training with simulators, Ethics/Capacity/
Confidentiality, Problem Based Learning,
Psychosexual Medicine, Musculoskeletal
Problems and Problem Based Learning.
All our individual GP training programmes
have 20 months in GP with two 4 month
blocks over the first two years. 50%
of our ITPs have hospital components
including Pain Management, Palliative
Care, Paediatrics and O&G. We are still
in the process of arranging others e.g.
Musculoskeletal Medicine, GUM and
Breast disorders clinic.
We have 2-3 residentials per year, which
are great fun, a Christmas party and a
Summer BBQ.
We encourage our GPStRs to form small
study groups for which we can provide
them with a room to meet in.
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The Programme
Directors in the
Chichester GP
Training Programme
Area are:
Dr K Chadwick, Dr David Pullan, Dr Jo
Galbraith and Dr James Bramall
Who are all local GPs who trained locally
(and couldn’t leave!). We love the sea
and the Downs and in our free time are
likely to be found on a boat, kitesurfing or
cycling to a pub. We all work in Training
Practices and have a strong interest in GP
Education.
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About Worthing
Just along the coast from Brighton,
Worthing provides a fantastic GPStR
experience with a new tailored
programme focusing on both
theoretical and practical General
Practice in an enthusiastic, lively
atmosphere.
Worthing is a large seaside town,
which has grown from its origins as a
Stone-age settlement later becoming
a fishing village and then a popular
holiday destination in the Regency
period, in which many of the town’s
fine buildings were built. Along the
coast from Brighton, Worthing provides
a fantastic GPStR experience with a
new tailored programme focusing on
both theoretical and practical General
Practice in an enthusiastic, lively
atmosphere.
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Worthing
About the Worthing GP Training Programme
The Worthing GP training programme
is a learner-centred course, responding
to GPStRs needs and preparing doctors
not just to pass the required assessments
but also to become lifelong independent
learners and, importantly, to enjoy their
chosen profession.
The GP Programme Directors provide
a friendly supportive environment
where the GPStRs can gain a valuable
perspective on being a GP. Of course
there is the opportunity to share best
practice but the sessions also provide an
enjoyable environment to offload their
difficulties!
Worthing GPStRs have a well-respected
training programme delivered by
motivated experienced GP Trainers and
enthusiastic Programme Directors. Most
of our GPStRs choose to stay in the South
Coast area and those trained here are
highly regarded by their peers and the
hospital consultants. There are three
terms of weekly Programme Director
and GPStR meetings at the Worthing
Postgraduate Medical Education Centre,
which provide a lively and engaging
forum for the exchange of ideas and
experiences.
All those currently within a GP practice
placement attend, with focused training
for years 1, 2 and 3. The sessions are
led and facilitated by the Programme
Directors with outside speakers
providing expertise on topics ranging
from Orthopaedics to Motivational
Interviewing.
It is a real challenge, but an exciting
and stimulating process, to build up the
knowledge base required for general
practice. We take a broad ranging
approach integrating medical knowledge
and consultation techniques within a
holistic paradigm to give you the best
grounding for your training.
We appreciate each group is different
and thus the education is learner focused
and tailored to group needs around a
consistent backbone including Hot Topics,
Consultation Theory, CSA training and,
importantly, pastoral care. The latter is
something we take very seriously here as
the jump from hospital medicine to GP is
a real change of gear and even the most
flexible GPStR can struggle initially.
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Programme Directors in the Worthing GP

Training Programme Area are:
ST1/2 Trainees will have 3 one-day locality Dr Marianne Horsley Dr Bilal Ali
meetings per year with their Educational Marianne commenced in post as Bilal qualified with the MRCGP in 2008,
Supervisor. The GP Programme Directors Programme Director in November 2010. and is currently a GP Partner in Crawley.
work very closely with the Medical Having taught at Brighton and Sussex
Educational Managers who will also Dr Anand Patel: Medical School he has an excellent
provide you with extensive information Anand is a relatively new GP. Having understanding of Medical Education
and support. undertaken MRCGP two year ago, he has which he mixes with enthusiasm and an
The ST1 and ST2 trainees will have two a good understanding of what it is to be infectious laugh. Bilal took up his post
4 months posts in general practice in a GPStR. Interests include music, cocktails as Programme Director in June 2009. He
their first 2 years, then a continuous 12 and education. spends his spare time singing in a choir,
months in the ST3 year, giving 20 months and lying on the beach!
in total in GP placements. This delivers the
greatest proportion of training within your
chosen profession alongside important
GP-relevant hospital specialties. We
currently have a variety of wide-ranging
Integrated Training Posts (ITP) in Palliative
Care, GUM, Pain control and Urology,
with Diabetes coming soon.
We liaise with Clinical and Educational
Supervisors and our GPStRs on a regular
basis to ensure needs are met and all
GPStRs are getting the support that is
required. The GPStRs gain not only a
broad understanding of General Practice
but the basic tools to move on from the
training year into the real world.
Time is specifically spent on discussing
‘How to Become a Locum’; ‘Negotiating a
GP Contract’ and ‘Life after GP Training’
amongst other topics relevant to the post
training GP world, so that GPStRs are not
left feeling adrift on completing the ST3
year.
In short: an excellent place to train
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SUSSEX LOCAL
EDUCATION PROVIDERS

There are a number of Local Education The Local Education Providers in Sussex are:
Providers (e.g. Acute NHS Hospital
Trusts, NHS Psychiatric Trusts) in
Sussex that provide placements BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX Sussex Partnership
for GPStRs in the KSS GP School. UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS Foundation
Placements in hospital posts are
currently of 4 months duration. NHS TRUST (BSUH) Trust (psychiatric)
• Royal Sussex County Hospital Please refer to page 104
• Princess Royal University Hospital

WESTERN SUSSEX NHS

East Sussex Hospitals TRUST
NHS Trust • Bognor War Memorial Hospital
• Eastbourne District General Hospital • St Richard’s Hospital
• Conquest Hospital • Worthing Hospital

The range of hospital posts included

St Barnabas House in the programmes:
Hospice Accident and Emergency, Paediatrics,
Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Palliative
Care, Trauma and Orthopaedics,
St Wilfrid’s Hospice Ophthalmology, Rheumatology, Psychiatry
and General Medicine There are also
rotations in more specialised medical
rotations including Endocrinology/
Diabetes, Cardiology, Respiratory
Medicine, Gastroenterology and Stroke
Care.

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Brighton and Sussex

University Hospitals
NHS Trust
Royal Sussex County Hospital & Princess
Royal University Hospital, Haywards Heath
GP Training Programme areas: Brighton and Mid-Sussex

Overview of Training at the Trust

Addresses The Trust has two main hospital sites
RSCH named the Princess Royal Hospital
Eastern Road (PRH) which includes Hurstwood Park
Brighton Neurological Centre in Haywards Heath,
East Sussex BN2 5BE and the Royal Sussex County Hospital
which includes the Royal Alexandra
Children’s Hospital in Brighton. You will
Switchboard be based at one of these hospitals during
Telephone Number your rotation. Both hospitals are in easy
01273 696955 reach of London with frequent trains
to London Bridge and Victoria stations.
Website We are fortunate in that both Haywards
Heath and Brighton enjoy close proximity
www.bsuh.nhs.uk to the beautiful countryside of the South
Downs and a free bus service runs hourly
between each hospital site.
PRH
Lewes Road
Haywards Heath
West Sussex RH16 4EX
The Trust works in partnership with the
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
which is one of four new medical schools
created as part of the government’s
strategy to increase the number of
qualified doctors from the UK working
in the NHS. Brighton & Sussex Medical
School has become one of the most
popular choices for medical students in
the UK. Therefore you can expect to work
within a stimulating environment.
The Director of Medical Education is
the academic lead for postgraduate
training within the Trust. Postgraduate
Departments are based on both hospital
sites with dedicated administrative staff to
support you.

Switchboard
Telephone Number
01444 441881

Website Key Individuals

www.bsuh.nhs.uk Director of Medical Education
Janek Nawrocki
Clinical Tutor
Jeremy Tibble (RSCH) and Andrew Elkins (PRH)
Medical Education Manager
Sue Hayes (RSCH) and Nora Tester (PRH)
Assistant Director of HR (Medical Personnel & Education):
Jane Burrage

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The Euan Keat Education Centre, based
at the Princess Royal Hospital and The
Sussex Medical Education Centre based
within the Audrey Emerton Building,
Brighton provide professional expertise
and support for medical and dental
trainees working within the Trust and the
wider community. The Centres ensure
competence and performance of trainees
is assessed effectively and Tutors are
available for careers information, advice
and counselling. The Audrey Emerton
Building, is located opposite the main
entrance to the Royal Sussex County
Hospital and is a combined education
facility for the Trust and Brighton & Sussex
Medical School.
It provides state of the art facilities with
16 teaching rooms, 2 lecture theatres
and a clinical skills lab. It also enjoys a
restaurant facility on the top floor with
stunning views across to the sea.
The Education Centre at the Princess
Royal Hospital is located on the second
floor opposite the Library. The centre has
two lecture theatres, one which seats 150
(and is divisible into two separate seminar
rooms each fully equipped with state of
the art audio visual facilities) and an 80
seat lecture theatre. Each Lecture theatre
has a live link to the operating theatres.
In addition there are two further seminar
rooms, one of which is a multi purpose
teaching room which is suitable for
clinical skills workshops. This room is also
equipped with an interactive whiteboard
and network points for some (Medical) IT
training.
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Library and e-learning Resources
There are multi-professional libraries
on both sites adjacent to the Education
Centres.
They have a superb range of educational
resources for you to access on a 24-hour
basis. These include printed and electronic
resources covering a wide range of books,
journals and exam questions. The staff in
the libraries are extremely knowledgeable
and will help you access training material
which if not available on site can be
obtained online or through the system of
inter-library loans and literature searches.
Computers with internet access are
available in both departments and there
is access to a wide range of relevant
databases such as Embase and Medline.
SPSS is available on one computer at both
sites.
Library Services also offer a training
programme which covers literature
searching, finding evidence based
resources and critical appraisal. Full details
of the library opening times and services
can be found on the library’s website at:
www.bsuh.nhs.uk/library
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East Sussex Hospitals

NHS Trust
Eastbourne District General Hospital
and Conquest Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Eastbourne and Hastings

Overview of Training at the Trust

Addresses East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust was the Conquest and a Clinical Skills Room at
Eastbourne District General Hospital established on 1 April 2002 following the Eastbourne.
Kings Drive merger of Eastbourne Hospitals and Hastings There is a library on both sites, providing
Eastbourne & Rother NHS Trusts. The Trust aims to access to traditional services and resources
East Sussex BN21 2UD provide high quality hospital and clinical (textbooks, journals, search skills training,
services for the people of East Sussex. document delivery etc.) and internet-based
Switchboard There is a combination of urban and rural resources (e-journals, e-books on-line exam
development with areas of outstanding support). Both libraries have PCs and internet
Telephone Number natural beauty and of considerable historic access 24/7. Both hospitals are modern and
(01323) 417400 interest. There are excellent recreational and very friendly places to work. The towns are
sporting facilities in the area and good rail lively, with nightclubs, sailing, cycling and
Website links to London and Brighton, to Europe other activities. Both hospitals have an on-
www.esht.nhs.uk via the Channel Tunnel and Eurostar and to site nursery and a social club/bar. Eastbourne
international airports. The Trust is keen to D.G.H. has a gym and an (outdoor, but
develop its staff and postgraduate medical heated) swimming pool on-site, for which a
Conquest Hospital and nurse training takes place on both the small fee is charged.
The Ridge main sites. Modern, up to date learning The Doctors’ Mess on both sites is very
St Leonards On Sea resource centres are available on both popular.
East Sussex TN37 7RD hospital sites along with many other training
opportunities including a skills laboratory at
Switchboard
Telephone Number
01424 755255
Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education CONQUEST HOSPITAL
Mrs Scarlett McNally Medical Education Manager
Mrs Lesley Rudling
EASTBOURNE
Medical Education Manager Clinical Tutor
Mrs Liz Oliver-Taylor Dr Mark Whitehead
Clinical Tutor Programme Directors
Mr Salim Shubber Dr Robert Cameron-Wood
Dr Karen Skinner
Programme Directors
Dr Clare Ilsley
Dr Andrew Stewart
Dr Raya Al-Jawaheri Postgraduate Administrator
Tina Scott
Postgraduate Administrator
Mrs Becky Couch

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St Barnabas House
Hospice
GP Training Programme area: Worthing
About the St Barnabas House Hospice
Address St Barnabas House is a local independent
St Barnabas House charitable hospice, first opened in 1973
Columbia Drive by a local GP Dr Francis Gusterson.
Worthing
West Sussex BN13 2QF
Our service includes:
• An 18 bed inpatient ward
Telephone Number
• Day Hospice
01903 534030
• Community Team
• Family Services Team
• Education Department
The hospice team consists of
nurses, doctors, social workers,
counsellors, chaplain, physiotherapists,
complementary therapists, artist-in-
residence and volunteers.
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Hospice staff will discuss your treatment
and care with you, giving you
opportunities to express your wishes and
address your concerns. We appreciate
that this is a difficult time for you and
your family and that some things may
be difficult to talk about. We aim to
be sensitive and supportive in our
conversations with you respecting your
individual beliefs, lifestyle and culture.
Patients may be referred to the
service for:
• Management of physical symptoms
• E motional support, which may include
counselling
• Day Hospice
• A
 dmission to the ward for symptom
management, respite care, or care in
the last days of life
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Sussex Partnership
NHS Foundation Trust
(PSYCHIATRIC)
GP Training Programme Areas: Brighton, Chichester, Bognor Regis, Crawley, Horsham,
Eastbourne, Hastings, Mid-Sussex, and Worthing

ABOUT SUSSEX PARTNERSHIP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Trust Headquarters Sussex Partnership provides specialist mental GP Training Sites
Sussex Partnership health, learning disability and substance
Swandean misuse services in and across Sussex. Brighton and Hove
Arundel Road Our vision is to realise the potential of
Brighton General Hospital
Worthing everyone who uses our services, and to help
Elm Grove,
West Sussex BN13 3EP our staff to do a great job.
Brighton BN2 3EW
We are an NHS Foundation Trust with
Telephone Number teaching status. Being a Foundation Trust Mill View Hospital
01903 843000 brings us closer to our local communities. Nevill Avenue,
Our teaching trust status recognises our Hove BN3 7HZ
work in research and development: we aim
to be a leading teaching mental health trust. West Access Team
Hove Pollyclinic
Our values are
Nevill Avenue
• T o challenge stigma and discrimination Hove, BN3 7HZ
whilst promoting equality and positive
attitudes Hove Community Learning Disability
• W
 ork in new ways and develop new 86 Denmark Villa’s
services Hove BN3 3TY
Key Individuals • P ut the human rights of the people
Vantage Point
who use our services at the centre of
Medical Education Managers everything we do New England Road
Samantha Vaughan Brighton BN1 4GW
West Sussex Locality • Work in partnership with others,
Email: Sam.Vaughan@ • Be a creative force and lead by example 76-79 Buckingham Road
sussexpartnership.nhs.uk Brighton BN1 3RJ
Amanda Williams
East Sussex, Brighton & Hove Chichester/ Bognor/ Midhurst
Email: Amanda.Williams@
sussexpartnership.nhs.uk Chichester Community Mental
Health Team
Clinical Tutors Chapel Street Clinic
Dr Al Amaladoss – West Sussex Chapel Street
Dr Chris Aldridge – Brighton & Hove Chichester
Dr Panos Argiriu – Eastbourne & Hastings West Sussex PO19 1BX
Director of Medical Education
Dr Chris Aldridge (acting)

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Learning Disability Team WAMHS / Psychotherapy WAMHS

72 Stockbridge Road Longley House, Highmore
Chichester, East Park, Weston Road
West Sussex PO19 8QJ Crawley R10 6AP Hailsham BN27 3DY
Tel: 01293 539911
OPMHS DOP
Harold Kidd Unit Eastbourne DGH
Bloomfield Drive Hayward’s Heath Kings Drive
Chichester PO19 6FX MHSOP Eastbourne BN21 2UD
Tel: 01243 791833 Summerfold CMHT
152 Leylands Road, Hastings CMHT
Bedale Centre Burgess Hill RH15 8JE Westwood House,
1 Glencathara Road Tel: 01444 462830 Holmesdale Gardens,
Bognor Regis PO21 2SF Hastings TN34 1LY
Tel: 01243 841041 CAMHS
Chalkhill Macdonald Ward,
Midhurst Team Lewis Road Conquest Hospital
The Old Court House Haywards Heath RH16 4EX The Ridge,
Grange Road St Leonards-On- Sea,
Midhurst GU29 9LT WAMHS
Tel: 01730 811300 Springvale
Worthing
72-74 Moat Road,
East Grinstead RH19 3OH
Crawley / Horsham Greenacres
Adult Mental Health Service
WAMHS WAMHS
Homefield Road
Langley Green Hospital Linwood
Worthing
Martyrs Avenue Butlers Green Road,
West Sussex BN11 2HS
Crawley RH13 7EJ Haywards Heath RH16 4BE
CAMHS
WAMHS
Eastbourne / Hastings Childrens Unit
New Park House
Worthing and Southlands Hospital
North Street St Marys House Worthing
Horsham 52 St Leonards Road Tel: 01903 286756
Tel: 01403 223240 Eastbourne
East Sussex BN21 3UU
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WESTERN SUSSEX
NHS TRUST
St Richard’s Hospital
GP Training Programme area: Chichester
Overview of Training at the Trust
Address In the last 10 years St Richard’s Hospital
Spitalfield Lane has seen enormous development. The
Chichester main hospital opened in 1996 and houses
West Sussex PO19 2SE 17 wards, ITU and six main theatres with
almost 100 consultants in total. The
Chichester Treatment Centre was opened
Switchboard in April 2005 and houses 4 theatres,
Telephone Number endoscopy and preoperative assessment
01243 788122 areas. This year our new Cancer Day Unit,
The Fernhurst Centre opened. Here is
Website where all of the cancer and haematology
facilities will be available. Also the
www.westernsussexhospitals.nhs.uk opening of our new Donald Wilson
Neurological Rehabilitation Centre.
There are twenty consultant/physicians
representing most medical specialties
including cardiology, rheumatology,
respiratory medicine, neurology, care of
the elderly, diabetes & endocrinology,
haematology. There are six consultants in
general surgery, three in vascular, three in
urology and six in orthopaedics.
Key Individuals
Director of Medical Education
Mr David Beattie
Clinical Tutor
Dr Christopher Smith
Medical Education Manager
Mrs Bebba Smithers
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Our recently refurbished A&E department
deals with 50,000 patients per annum
overseen by four consultants, this now
includes a new children’s A&E area.
We have five O&G and five Paediatric
consultants that handle 2,400 deliveries
per year. All departments hold regular
MDT meetings in the Chichester Medical
Education Centre (CMEC). In addition,
CMEC is host to foundation training,
GPVTS training, courses e.g. ATLS, PLS,
ALS, GP refresher courses.
CMEC attracts GPs, dentists and hospital
doctors from an extremely wide area.
Dentists from London regularly come
down to attend dental courses and GPs
from as afar a field as Scotland come
to CMEC for the bi-yearly GP Refresher
Courses. There is also a good local
attendance from the various disciplines.
We also have an active VTS trainee
scheme and a large intake of medical
students from various medical schools.
We work closely with Chichester College
of Technology to provide NVQ Level 3
in Oral Health for dental nurses which
links into our dental programme. We also
provide a half day protected educational

programme for all members of the GP
practice team either hosted at CMEC or
within practices.
The facilities of the Chichester Medical
Education Centre (CMEC) are available
to hospital staff and external clients,
priority always being given to educational
meetings, seminars and conferences.
The ground floor of CMEC provides
an excellent range of conference and
seminar facilities. There are 9 seminar/
tutorial rooms; a tiered lecture theatre
seating 30 with extensive computerised
av facilities; multiple X-ray viewer,
overhead projector, dual slide projection
and examination couch; and a large air
conditioned tiered lecture theatre seating
70, with extensive computerised audio
visual equipment, microscope, and video
conferencing facilities.
There is also a large hall capable of
seating 250 people. All rooms are very
well equipped with audio-visual facilities
including data presenters and laptops,
slide projection, overhead projectors,
X-ray projection, TV/videos, etc. An
excellent café serving sandwiches, hot
meals and beverages is available within
CMEC for all clients. A large, 18 station
IT training room was completed in
September 2007 primarily for the use of
doctors and medical students.
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All terminals have direct internet access
and the IT suit is available 24 hours Bognor War
a day. In CMEC we now have a new
clinical skills facility with a faculty office Memorial Hospital
for administration of courses, etc. The
Simpson Clinical Skills Room has had
video conferencing installed to enable live Address
inter-active links to theatres for training Shripney Road
purposes. This room has now been well Bognor Regis
equipped with training equipment at the West Sussex PO22 9PP
request of various departments.
This superb facility will ensure that
the clinical training opportunities at St
Telephone Number
Richard’s Hospital continue to develop 01243 865418
and flourish.
As of April 1st 2009 Chichester and
Worthing Hospitals merged to become
one Trust (Western Sussex Hospitals
NHS Trust) and the GP schemes run
independently on each site.
Also part of the Western Sussex NHS Trust
is the Bognor War Memorial Hospital,
which is used for psychiatry rotations
(older people mental health).
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WESTERN SUSSEX
NHS TRUST
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals
(Southlands Hospital is not normally used for GP training)
GP Training Programme Areas: Worthing & Chichester

Overview of Training at the Trust

Address Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust serves The centre incorporates excellent library
Worthing Hospital a population of 450,000 people from a facilities and a postgraduate dining room.
Lyndhurst Road catchment area covering most of West It is fully equipped for all Audio Visual
Worthing, West Sussex Sussex. requirements, offers IT support services
BN11 2DH The Trust was created on 1 April 2009 and is situated close to the junior doctors’
through the merger of St Richard’s mess.
Southlands Hospital Hospital, Chichester, Southlands Hospital, Worthing and Southlands are home
Upper Shoreham Road in Shoreham-by-Sea, and Worthing to a wealth of experience, pathology,
Shoreham-by-Sea Hospital. learning and education. There are around
West Sussex 150 junior doctors in training posts at
Our aim is to
BN43 6TQ Worthing and Southlands at any time.
• Provide high quality care for patients Undergraduate medical students regularly
Switchboard • D
 eliver efficient, effective services and come on attachment from Kings College
balance the books London and Brighton Medical School, and
Telephone Number the Trust also participates in a programme
• M
 eet and exceed all our national
01903 205111 of teaching for American medical
targets
students.
Website Every year, the Trust’s 5,000 staff
Worthing has a very popular General
www.westernsussexhospitals.nhs.uk • T reat 102,000 in-patients and day Practice Specialty Training Programme
cases (GPSTP) and offers highly-regarded
• See 376,000 out-patients Foundation Programmes.
• T reat 115,000 people in the two Weekly educational programmes are
Accident and Emergency departments arranged for all specialties and monitored
• Deliver 5,700 babies by Local Faculty Groups (LFGs). These
LFGs also monitor the performance
• Carry out 75,000 operations progress of all junior doctors in training.
• Take 170,000 blood tests A GP tutor has responsibility for the
• Dispense 600,000 medicines continuing medical education programme
• T ake 210,000 imaging exams (x-rays/ for general practitioners and GPSTP
Key Individuals scans) Training Programme Directors arrange the
Director of Medical Education Specialty Training Programme for general
The Worthing Postgraduate Medical practice at Worthing.
Mr David Beattie
Centre provides educational facilities for
Clinical Tutor all doctors employed by Western Sussex
Dr Gordon Caldwell Hospitals NHS Trust who are based at
Worthing & Southlands Hospitals, and
Medical Education Manager also to local general practitioners.
Maggie Patching

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St Wilfrid’s Hospice
GP Training Programme Area: Chichester
About The St Wilfrid’s Hospice
Address St Wilfrid’s Hospice has been in
Grosvenor Road Chichester since 1987 and over the years
Chichester has grown in size developing the services
West Sussex PO19 8FP provided. We are now a 14 bed (with
en-suites) inpatient unit with day care
facilities, an education unit, a hospice
Telephone Number at home service, and nurse specialist
01243 775302 based in the community. We rely on the
generosity and support of volunteers
and donors alike with only 15% of our
income coming from the NHS. The other
85% of our income is generated from
Key Individuals
Medical Director
Dr Brendan Amesbury
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fundraising and retail. St Wilfrid’s has
8 shops and a donations centre in a
number of towns in the local area. There
are over 400 volunteers who help out by
generously giving their time both in the
hospice and in our shops.
Our excellent members of staff behind
the scenes support the wide range of
services we deliver and our Board of
Trustees ensure we are governed to high
standards.
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Training Practices in the Brighton GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Brighton Beaconsfield Medical Practice 175 Preston Road Brighton BN1 6AG
Brighton Chapel Street Surgery Newhaven BN9 9PW
Brighton Charter Medical Centre 88 Davigdor Road Hove BN3 1RF
Brighton County Clinic Old Shoreham Road Portslade BN41 1XR
Brighton Meridian Surgery Downlands Roundhay Avenue Peacehaven BN10 8TG
Brighton Mile Oak Medical Centre Chalky Road Portslade Brighton BN41 2WF
Brighton Portslade Health Centre Church Road Portslade BN41 1LX
Brighton Preston Park Surgery 2a Florence Road Brighton BN1 6DJ
Brighton Quayside Medical Practice Chapel Street Newhaven BN9 9PW
Brighton Rowe Avenue Surgery 17 Rowe Avenue Peacehaven East Sussex BN10 7PE
Brighton St Andrew’s Surgery Southover Road Lewes BN7 1US
Brighton St Peter’s Medical Centre 30-36 Oxford Street Brighton BN1 4LA
Brighton Stanford Medical Centre 175 Preston Road Brighton BN1 6AG
Brighton Wish Park Surgery 124 New Church Road Hove East Sussex BN3 4JB

Training Practices in the Eastbourne GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Eastbourne Arlington Road Medical 1 Arlington Road Eastbourne BN21 1DH
Practice
Eastbourne Bird-In-Eye Surgery Uckfield Community Framfield Road Uckfield TN22 5AW
Hospital
Eastbourne Bolton House 10 Bolton Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 3JY
Eastbourne Grove Road Surgery 59-63 Grove Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN21 4TX
Eastbourne Old School Surgery Church Street Seaford BN25 1HH
Eastbourne Princes Park Health Centre Wartling Road Eastbourne BN22 7PG
Eastbourne Seaford Medical Practice Dane Road Seaford BN25 1DH
Eastbourne Seaside Medical Centre 18 Sheen Road Eastbourne East Sussex BN22 8DR
Eastbourne The Lighthouse Practice College Road Surgery 6 College Road Eastbourne BN21 4HY

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Training Practices in the Hastings GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Hastings 24 Albert Road Bexhill on Sea East Sussex TN40 1DG
Hastings Carisbrooke Surgery Marlborough House 19-21 Warrior Square St Leonards TN37 6BG
on Sea
Hastings Churchwood Medical Practice Tilebarn Road St Leonards On Sea TN38 9QU
Hastings Little Common Surgery 82 Cooden Sea Road Bexhill on Sea TN39 4SP
Hastings Old Town Surgery 13 De La Warr Road Bexhill On Sea TN40 2HG
Hastings Roebuck House Surgery 25 High Street Hastings TN34 1QF
Hastings The Plaza Surgery 2nd Floor, Station Plaza Station Approach Hastings TN34 1BA
Health Ctr
Hastings The Rye Medical Centre Kiln Drive Rye Foreign RYE TN31 7SQ
Hastings The Surgery Main Street Northiam Rye TN31 6ND

Training Practices in the Chichester GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Chichester Avisford Medical Group North End Road Yapton West Sussex BN18 0DU
Chichester Cathedral Medical Group The Medical Centre Cawley Road Chichester PO19 1XT
Chichester Flansham Park Health Centre 109 Flansham Park Felpham Bognor Regis PO22 6DH
Chichester Grove House Surgery 80 Pryors Lane Bognor Regis West Sussex PO21 4JB
Chichester Langley House 27 West Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1RW
Chichester Loxwood Medical Practice The Surgery Farm Close Loxwood RH14 0UT
Chichester Maywood Healthcare Centre 225 Hawthorn Road Bognor Regis West Sussex PO21 2UW
Chichester Parkland Surgery 4 Parkland Road Chichester West Sussex PO19 3DT
Chichester Pulborough Medical Group Pulborough Primary Care Spiro Place Pulborough RH20 1FG
Centre
Chichester Riverbank Medical Centre Dodsley Lane Midhurst West Sussex GU29 9AW
Chichester Selsey Medical Practice High Street Selsey PO20 9DH
Chichester Southbourne Surgery 337 Main Road Southbourne Hants PO10 8JH
Chichester The Arundel Surgery Green Lane Close Arundel Sussex BN18 9HG
Chichester The Medical Centre Cakeham Road East Wittering Chichester PO20 8BH
Chichester The Surgery Grove Street Petworth West Sussex GU28 0LP
Chichester Westmeads Surgery 4-6 The Precinct Bognor Regis West Sussex PO21 5SB
Chichester Witterings Medical Centre Cakeham Road East Wittering West Sussex PO19 7UZ
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Training Practices in the Mid-Sussex GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Mid Sussex April Cottage High Street Buxted TN22 4LA
Mid Sussex Ashdown Forest Health Centre Lewes Road Forest Row RH18 5AQ
Mid Sussex Cuckfield Medical Centre Glebe Road Cuckfield Sussex RH17 5BQ
Mid Sussex Dr Lyle & Partners 4 Silverdale Road Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 0FF
Mid Sussex Holbrook Surgery Bartholomew Way Horsham West Sussex RH12 5JL
Mid Sussex Hurstpierpoint Health Centre Trinity Road Hurstpierpoint BN6 9UQ
Mid Sussex Judges Close Surgery East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3AA
Mid Sussex Meadows Surgery Temple Grove Gatehouse Lane Burgess Hill RH15 9XN
Mid Sussex Moatfield Surgery St Michael’s Road East Grinstead West Sussex RH19 3GW
Mid Sussex Newtons Practice The Health Centre Heath Road Haywards RH16 3BB
Heath
Mid Sussex Orchard Surgery Lower Tanbridge Way Horsham RH12 1PJ
Mid Sussex Ouse Valley Practice Dumbledore Primary London Road Handcross RH17 6HB
Care Centre
Mid Sussex Park Surgery Albion Way Horsham Sussex RH12 1BG
Mid Sussex Riverside Surgery 48 Worthing Road Horsham West Sussex RH12 1UD
Mid Sussex Ship Street Surgery Ship Street East Grinstead West Sussex RH17 7HE
Mid Sussex The Brow Medical Centre The Brow Burgess Hill West Sussex RH15 9BS
Mid Sussex The Nightingale Primary Care Ctr Butlers Green Road Haywards Heath Sussex RH16 4BN

Training Practices in the Worthing GP Training Programme Area

Programme Area Surgery Address Town Town Post Code
Please note: Some Practices details appear in more than one programme area as Trainers may attend different Trainer Groups
Worthing Ball Tree Surgery Western Road North Sompting BN15 9UX
Worthing Fitzalan Medical Centre Fitzalan Road Littlehampton West Sussex BN17 5JR
Worthing Henfield Medical Centre Deer Park Henfield West Sussex BN5 9JQ
Worthing Kingfisher Surgery 19 Culver Road LANCING West Sussex BN15 9AX
Worthing Lime Tree Surgery Lime Tree Avenue Findon Valley Worthing BN14 0DL
Worthing Mayflower Surgery Durrington Lane Worthing West Sussex BN13 2RX
Worthing Park Surgery Albion Way Horsham Sussex RH12 1BG
Worthing Shoreham Health Centre Pond Road Shoreham by Sea West Sussex BN43 5US
Worthing St Lawrence Surgery 79 St Lawrence Avenue Worthing West Sussex BN14 7JL
Worthing Steyning Health Centre Tanyard Lane Steyning West Sussex BN44 3RJ
Worthing The Manor Practice 20 Southwick Street Southwick West Sussex BN42 4TA
Worthing The Orchard Surgery Penstone Park Lancing West Sussex BN15 9AG
Worthing The Park Surgery St Flora’s Road Littlehampton West Sussex BN17 6BF
Worthing The Strand Surgery 2 The Strand Goring-by-Sea Worthing BN12 6DN
Worthing The Surgery Roman Way Billingshurst West Sussex RH14 9QZ
Worthing Westcourt Medical Centre 12 The Street Rustington West Sussex BN16 3NX
Worthing Willow Green Surgery Station Road East Preston West Sussex BN16 3AH

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GP training posts
GP Training Practices in the Medway Training Programme
available August 2011
The following table gives the indicative number of individual 3 year GP Specialty
training programmes, starting at ST1, available from August 2011, broken down by
GP Training Programme area.
IMPORTANT - These are indicative numbers and are subject to change.

Training Programme Post numbers for August 2011

Brighton & Mid Sussex 35
Chertsey 20
Chichester 17
Dartford 13
East Kent 43
East Surrey 26
Eastbourne 11
Epsom 11
Frimley 18
Guildford 17
Hastings 8
Maidstone 12
Medway 19
Tunbridge Wells 15
Worthing 15
Total 280

The KSS GP School Dean Team would like

to thank the members of the school, both
Educators and GPStRs who supplied some
of the photographs used to illustrate this
prospectus.
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KSS Deanery is the first in the country
to develop a Post-Certification School
for GPs.
GP Training is very well supported by
the GP Specialty School within KSS
Deanery but learning and professional
development do not cease with the
celebration of the arrival of one’s
Certificate of Completion of Training!
KSS Deanery has always promoted
good quality CPD (continuing
professional development) for GPs
in Kent, Surrey and Sussex, and the
arrival of Revalidation has made
us even more aware of the need to
support all GPs with lifelong learning
and help them meet the requirements
of the NHS annual appraisal system.
The Post-Certification GP School
works in collaboration with the PCTs
in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to ensure
GPs are prepared for Revalidation
and receive the support they
need for high quality professional
development.
We aim to help GPs manage the
transition from well-supported
trainee to independent practitioner
and self-directed learner!
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THE KSS POST-CERTIFICATION
GP SCHOOL
The Post-
Certification GP
School provides the
following services
• A
 ppraisal Support Programme.
Working in partnership with many of
our PCTs the School has developed
Appraiser Development Centres which
provide training and updating for
new and existing appraisers and PCT
personnel, preparing them for the
changes required for Revalidation.
• S upport for appraisers. In addition to
the Appraiser Development Centres
the School uses the GP Tutor network
to provide learning sets for the
appraiser network and trains lead
appraisers to support their colleagues.
We also train Revalidation Facilitators,
appointed by the two RCGP Faculties,
to help GP appraises with multi-source
feedback and clinical audit prior to
their NHS appraisal.
• G
 P Tutors also facilitate protected
learning time for GPs and practice
staff, working with their PCTs and
local commissioning groups, and
will ensure GPs in their area are fully
informed about the Revalidation
process. They act as a focus for
educational activity and support in
their localities, including support for
local commissioning initiatives.
• T he School also collaborates with PCTs
on the development of local support
and performance improvement
training for GPs identified through
the appraisal system as needing local
remediation or rehabilitation.
• T he School is also responsible for the
organisation and development of the
KSS Mentoring programme which
offers additional support for GPs
through a one to one, confidential
relationship with a respected GP
peer. This service is available to all
GPs in KSS and can help with career
planning and personal development
as well as supporting GPs with
individual or practice-based concerns
and is particularly helpful for new
GP’s starting out in practice after
completing their training.
• T he School supports GP Induction
and Refresher Programmes, for those
returning to general practice after
a career break, and support GPs
through the transition from trainee
to independent GP by encouraging
learning sets for salaried doctors.
• T he School supports the GP Retainer
Programme, a scheme whereby GPs
can work part-time in a practice,
perhaps whilst raising a young
family or when committed to other
responsibilities, in an approved
practice with good educational
support, and so avoiding a break in
that doctor’s career.
• T he Post-Certification GP School also
responds to the needs of GPs who
may have been identified as causing
concerns and can coordinate local
remediation work for such individuals.
Continuing
Professional
Development
• C
 PD is a continuing learning process
that supports GPs to stay up to date
and maintain and improve their
standards across all areas of their
practice and at all times of their career
development.
• C
 PD encourages and supports specific
changes in the quality and delivery of
a doctor’s practice from professional,
patient and service requirement
perspectives.
• C
 PD includes any educational or
professional activity directed towards
developing the knowledge, skills,
attitudes and personal effectiveness
necessary to improve practice.
Professional expertise demands
a continuing awareness of new
concepts, values and technologies.

GP Training Practices in the Medway Training Programme
• It is important for doctors to update
themselves not only on the evidence
base, but also on opinion and
consensus. Equally they must be
aware of local needs.
• T he ultimate aim of CPD is to support
doctors to improve the care they
provide to patients through their own
personal development.
• T he KSS Deanery CPD strategy
will adhere to the ten principles of
good practice in CPD evolved by the
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
(AMRC) and RCGP CPD Strategy.
Appraisals
GP Trainees undergo annual appraisal
and in their last year their educational
supervisor ensures they experience the
NHS appraisal process that they will
experience every year thereafter.
• F or new GPs the NHS appraisal
process is the first educational
initiative following the completion of
their e-portfolios. KSS Deanery has
supported PCTs in the development
of the appraisal process in most PCT
localities.
• T he Post-Certification School
encourages excellence in General
Practice by promoting the continued
professional development of GPs
throughout their careers.
• W
 orking with PCTs, the Post-
Certification GP School tries to
ensure that every GP in Kent, Surrey
and Sussex has a productive and
appropriate annual NHS appraisal that
looks at the needs of patients, the
needs of the individual GP, the needs
of the practice, and the needs of their
locality.
• It also supports individual GPs and
Practices in enhancing care through
developing and achieving their
learning plans.
• D
 evelopment as a GP in the year
immediately after certification is
likely to be focused on needs driven
by patient care, personal enthusiasm
and service imperatives.
GP Tutors
Following completion of training you lose
the services of your educational supervisor
and your local programme directors; you
become an independent self-directing
learner. This is quite a jump for most
doctors but your local GP Tutor can help
this transition by providing advice and by
sign-posting learning resources for you.
• G
 P Tutors are important members
of the Post-Certification GP School
workforce and facilitate the
Continuing Professional Development
(CPD) of all GPs working in their area.
• T hey work closely with their local
PCTs to facilitate appropriate learning
activity that answers the needs of the
local GPs as identified by the appraisal
process and by the collation of clinical
governance data.
• T hey are developing relationships with
local Practice-based Commissioning
Groups, helping them identify the
professional learning needs generated
by new services arising in their
localities and responding to those
needs appropriately.
• In many areas these needs are being
answered by events supported by
PCTs through Protected Learning
Time arrangements, either as local
educational meetings or as multi-
professional learning events in
individual practices.
• G
 P Tutors also have a vital role in
preparing GPs for Revalidation. They
usually act as leaders of their local
Appraiser Learning Sets and also help
raise awareness of the requirements
for revalidation amongst the local GP
workforce.
• T hey act as local resource directories
for individual GPs looking for primary
care knowledge and skills training
and work closely with the staff in
local Postgraduate Medical Education
Centres.
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About us
You can find a lot more information
about the Post-Certification School and
its activities through the Deanery website
by looking at the CPD section. It provides
more information on Revalidation and
Appraisal and has a number of useful
downloads and web-links.
The work of the Post-Certification School
is often collaborative and we maintain
strong links with our Primary Care Trusts,
Local Medical Committees, Postgraduate
Education Centres and Royal College
Faculties.
Helping us achieve our lifelong learning
objectives are 24 GP Tutors and 41
Mentors together with over 100 GP
Appraisers.
Their work on behalf of the School is
coordinated by a central team:
Professor Abdol Tavabie
Deputy Dean Director and GP Dean
Dr Kevin Hurrell
Head of KSS Post-Certification
GP School
Dr Mary Davis
Associate GP Dean and Lead
on Simulation
Sandra Forster
Primary Care Business Manager
Steve Scudder
Lifelong Learning Advisor
Gill Carter
CPD Manager
TBA
CPD Administrator
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PROFESSOR ABDOL TAVABIE
Dean of Postgraduate GP Education
Professor Tavabie manages the whole of the
Department of Postgraduate General Practice,
with responsibility for both the GP School
and Post Certification GP School providing
educational support for GPs. He leads on the
Appraisers Development Centres and providing
support for the revalidation process in KSS.
He is also Deputy to the Dean Director and has
a number of national roles.
Email: atavabie@gpkss.ac.uk
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DEPARTMENT OF POSTGRADUATE
TEAM PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR
Dr Kevin Hurrell
Head of KSS Post-Certification GP School
Dr Kevin Hurrell’s role is to:
• S upport the GP Dean in the management of
the KSS Post-Certification GP School
•  anage and support the KSS GP Tutor
M
network and so promote appropriate effective
continuing professional development (CPD)for
all GPs in KSS
• Support the KSS Quality Assurance of
Appraisal Working Group (QAWG) and the
CPD Board
• S upport the partnership between Deanery
and allied organisations involved with
appraisal and revalidation
• Primary Care Trusts
•  oyal College of General Practitioners
R
Faculties
• Local Medical Committees
• Commissioning Groups
•  evelop the KSS Appraisal Support
D Gill’s role includes:
Programme, including the training and
ongoing development of GP Appraisers and
others involved in GP Appraisal
•  anage and lead the KSS GP Mentoring
M Development (CPD) Strategy for appraisal
programme, including training, appointment
and ongoing development of KSS GP Mentors
• S upport a variety of learning sets for GPs
within KSS and support the Deanery’s
remedial work undertaken with individual GPs
when required
E-mail: Khurrell@gpkss.ac.uk
Dr Mary Davis
Associate Dean KSS GP Deanery
One of my roles for the Deanery is
working with the CPD school on appraiser
development, and progress towards
revalidation. Some of our simulator
team have been trained to play the role
of a GP appraisee, and we have used
these simulations at the Appraiser
Development Centre,[ADC] where
the appraisers are observed and given
feedback from the ‘appraisee’ as well as a
trained observer. These GP roles have also
been developed for mentor training and
rehearsal.
E-mail: mdavis@gpkss.ac.uk
Gill Carter
CPD Manager and Conference Co-ordinator
• S upporting the Head of Post Certification
GP School in managing and implementing
the developing Continuing Professional
and revalidation, servicing the CPD Board and
Quality Assurance Working Group (QAWG)
• C
 o-ordinating workshops and conferences for
GP Tutors and Appraisal Development Centres
• M
 anaging the GP Mentoring Scheme,
Simulated Patients Project and GP
Appraisal Learning Sets
• C
 o-ordinating the schedule of events in the
academic diary for the GP Department
Gill’s contact is primarily with qualified GPs to
support them in their continuing professional
development, and she can be emailed on
gcarter@gpkss.ac.uk

GP EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION
THE POST CERTIFICATION GP SCHOOL
SANDRA FORSTER
Primary Care Business Manager
Sandra’s role includes:
• P roviding leadership of the GP
department ensuring the planning
and implementation of the business
plan, policy and strategic objectives
including improving and developing
systems
• P roviding leadership to the
management of recruitment of GP
Specialty trainees and their ARCP
• F inancial management of the GP
departmental budget
• R
 esponsibility for GP data and
information management
• P roviding leadership on the
administrative processes for the Post
Certification GP School processes
• P roviding high level support for
business management to the Dental
department
• P articipates in the Senior Management
Forum to support Deanery wide
business and operational issues
Whilst the other members of the team
will help you with your day to day issues,
you may contact Sandra if you are looking
for further clarification on deanery
processes. Sandra can be contacted
by email at sforster@gpkss.ac.uk or
telephone 0207 415 3484
Mr Stephen Scudder
Lifelong Learning Adviser
Responsible for continued implementation of
the Primary Care strategy and the GP Tutor
network, across the three counties of Kent,
Surrey and Sussex.
Providing guidance and advice acting as an
information hub to the Tutor’s network.
Support the concept of life long learning and
development of opportunity for learning for
all staff within primary care. Actively working
with Primary Care and GP Tutors at local and
county level in promotion of the principles of
life long learning.
Steve works with the Head of Post CCT
School to support the Patch Associate Deans
in all CPD areas including, GP recruitment,
Appraisal and Revalidation the Educational
Pathway for GP Educators, Mentoring and is
the Lead visitor responsible for quality for the
Educational Pathway and carries out visits to
non GP training practice’s for the Foundation
Year 2 GP Placement programme. Steve is
also the GP Deanery Lead for the Sessional
Doctors and the Support Learning Sets.
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Dr Nathan Nathan
Associate Dean KSS GP Deanery
Nathan’s role includes:
• O
 rganising training programmes for
General Practitioners referred to the
Deanery for development of performance
where concerns have been identified
• R
 esponsible for facilitating practitioners
to meet their action plans recommended
by GMC/NCAS or PCT following
assessment of their performance
• S upporting PCT’s in managing concerns
relating to Practitioner performance by
working with PAG Groups
To be appointed
CPD Administrator
Role includes:
• S upporting the Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) Manager and Head
of Post Certification GP School with
administration process of multiple CPD
projects including recruitment, selection and
training of GP Appraisers and organising
CPD workshops and conferences
• R
 esponsible for the administration of the
Simulated Patient Project
• Administration of the Mentoring Scheme
 “ The KSS GP School hopes that you have found this
prospectus useful and something that you will find of
continuing use. If you are thinking of applying to train as a
GP, then all of us here would thoroughly support that, as
we would recommend general practice as one of the best
careers in the world, and KSS as a great place to train. The
training will give you maximum support for working in what
is the most actively developing part of medicine in the NHS“
with a very bright future.The School wishes you the very
best in the next stage of your career.
Ian McLean, Head of KSS GP School

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