Patch Office: Trainers

 

 

Becoming a Trainer

If you are interested in becoming a GP Trainer please contact Dr Heidi Penrose, the Mid-Wessex Associate Dean for GP.  Please note that  Dr Penrose works for Mid-Wessex GP Education on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

Please contact the admin team in the first instance by emailing england.mwgpe.se@nhs.net

Approvals and Re-approvals

Dr Heidi Penrose undertakes Approval and Re-approval visits for Mid-Wessex GP Practices.

For all queries relating to visits, please contact england.mwgpe.se@nhs.net

Further details on GP Trainer approval & re-approval process please see HEE Wessex website

HEW GP Trainer Approvals information

 

ES/CPD Payments for 2023/2024 

In January 2024, Mid-Wessex Patch Office will be contacting Practices who are eligible to claim ES/CPD/TGC payments for 2023/2024.  Practices will be asked to check and complete an invoice for payments from NHSE so that payments can be made in the current financial year (by end March).

Educational Supervisor payments 2023/2024 

For those of you who are Educational Supervisors to ST1/ST2 GP trainees in hospital posts in their current post (Aug 2023) and/or in their Feb 2024 post you can claim for £250 per trainee per hospital post as payment of your educational supervision, i.e. maximum £500 per trainee per annum.

In order to claim:

  • You must be an approved trainer.
  • You must be allocated a trainee for supervision during their hospital post.
  • The trainee must be in a hospital post (which commences either Aug 23 and/or Feb 24).

*Payment to Practice only: All invoices must state payment to be made to the Practice. We are not able to make these payments to individual Trainers.

GP Trainer CPD payments 2023/2024

If you were an approved trainer before 1 April 2023 and have supervised a GP trainee or an F2 trainee in your training practice during the period August 2021 and July 2023 then you are eligible to claim £750 towards your Continued Professional Development as an Educationalist for the financial year 2023/24.

In order to claim:

  • You must have been an approved trainer before 1 April 2023 AND have supervised a GP trainee or an F2 trainee in your training practice during the period August 2021 and July 2023
  • Please note, this payment is not for supervision of a current ST trainee in your practice (i.e. those who started their post in Aug 2023), the practice receives a Trainer Grant for supervision of trainees in the practice.

*Payment to Practice only: All invoices must state payment to be made to the Practice. We are not able to make these payments to individual Trainers.

TGC Payments

Trainer Group Convenor Payments are paid to those practices where the Trainer Group Convenor is based.  They are eligible to claim £1500 TGC Payment for 2023/2024 for dedicating time to run the Trainer Groups.

*Payment to Practice only: All invoices must state payment to be made to the Practice.  We are not able to make these payments to individual Trainers.

If your practice has any queries around payments please contact the Patch Office england.mwgpe.se@nhs.net 

 

The Essential Handbook for GP Training and Education: 

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