Become a GP Training Practice

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Struggling to recruit in recent years?

Keen to support a pipeline of quality GPs?

Want to feel enthusiastic about general practice again?

Then why not become a training practice and create the workforce your practice needs?

The benefits include

  • Enhanced recruitment and succession planning
  • Adds variety and fresh perspectives, maintaining vibrancy in the practice
  • Increases capacity for patient care
  • Keeps GPs updated and motivated
  • Contributes to quality improvement and CQC audit work
  • Fosters a learning environment and positive work culture
  • Provides financial benefits through education
  • Offers exposure to cultural diversity, particularly with international medical graduates (IMGs)
  • Creates rewarding mentorship experiences and long-term relationships
  • Promotes knowledge-sharing and professional growth
  • Strengthens links with other practices through joint tutorials and shared experience of teaching and training
  • Ensures better patient care due to continuous learning

Some of the support available includes:

  • New Trainers can access personal/career coaching
  • WhatsApp group for GP trainers
  • Financial benefit
  • Support to go through Learning Approval process
  • Support from the Hub Plus, working in partnership with training programmes, to ensure trainers have the necessary skills and resources to be effective trainers

Becoming an educational supervisor no longer requires you to hold a PGCME.

If training is something you want to consider or would like additional information about, please let us know. Sometimes the reservations we have about taking the plunge simply need explanation. Perhaps you are keen but your other partners are reluctant, let us know how we could support you in those discussions. GP placements can be from a little as 4 months to 12 months or longer depending on whether the trainee is LTFT.

We know times are hard right now in primary care but teaching and learning is known to have a positive effect on staff wellbeing and developing your own team while also teaching new learners is surely win, win!