NOE - all you need to know!

Its only three weeks before the ARCP panel. You should ALL have organised an ES review. This is just a quick reminder about NOE. This is compulsory and although it does not appear on the ePortfolio you will need to complete all the elements of NOE for satisfactory completion and transition to either CCT or the next year of training. Click here to read the NOE regulations on the Yorkshire and Humber Deanery website, but in summary you need to:

1. Three Significant Event Analysis per 6 months post filed under Significant Event Analysis in your ePortfolio
2. One Reflection on key learning from each post for each post. File under Courses/Certificates
3. One Audit or Reflection on QOF during your (preferably) first GP attachment. File under Audit/Project
4. One Case Study or Presentation per each six month post. File under Lecture/Seminar
5. Six OOH sessions per six months of General Practice. File under OOH.
6. Leave and complaints. File under Professional Conversations.

Easy really - just six steps to (ARCP) heaven!

Dr Liz Moulton resigns

The Training Programme Directors received an email from Liz last week saying that she had resigned from her post as Deputy Director of Postgraduate GP Education with effect from 31 July 2011. This was quite a shock. From her email Liz has resigned because of unsustainable workload with the amount of Deanery work not fitting into the available sessions. She also said that 'at times it has been difficulty to carry responsibility without ... power.'

I think Liz has done a really good job - she has led on increasing our training capacity, increasing the standard of training and of trainees appointed to the scheme and dealt robustly with under performing trainees. I have always felt that Liz has been 'one of us' and has protected schemes from NHS bureaucracy and perhaps even some of its madness at times. We will miss her at the Deanery.

I was interviewing with Liz on Tuesday and was a bit disappointed that she had not told me first because it would have made a really good scoop for the blog!

New aTPD wanted!

Rhiannon is leaving her current post as aTPD and will finish at the end of July. Rhiannon has been a very valued and skill member of the TPD team and I will miss her help, skill and new thinking in the way we have planned and delivered training.

The teams loss though means we have a vacancy. Rhiannon has worked with me facilitating the small group sessions for our hospital trainees on a Thursday. Its fun, the trainees do most of the work and it is enjoyable and satisfying. Hopefully the Deanery will be advertising soon for a two session TPD to help facilitate these sessions.

If you would like me information and details then email me off the list - click here to email me.

First slash from NHS cuts

We have had our first taste of NHS cuts on GP training this week. We have five vacancies to start GP training in August 2011 but in order to balance the Deaneries budgets these will not now be filled. The posts that will not be filled in August are one in A&E at Pinderfields, one in respiratory medicine at DDH, one in Elderly Medicine at Pinderfields , one in Paediatrics at DDH and one in general practice.

The short term result will be that these posts will either not be filled or filled with locums (that will clearly be more expensive to the NHS) and this will destabilize these posts and make it more difficult for our trainees to be released for whole days and other training. The long term result is that in July 2014 we will produce five less qualified GPs.

When the NHS is becoming GP led this is totally bonkers!