Pause, reflect - now what!

I went to a really interesting working group meeting yesterday discussing the future of GP Training in Yorkshire and Humber. I hope I added my tuppenneth but the really interesting news was where we are now after the pause and reflect time on the NHS changes.

Skills Networks have gone and the new kid on the block is the Local NHS Education and Training Board - forever known as LETB. In Yorkshire and Humber their will be one LETB with 3 hubs for West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and North East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (sound familiar ...!).

The LETB will have a programme board and on the board will be nine chief executives (or their deputies) from acute trusts - three per hub, but the acute teaching trusts will not necessarily have a seat on the board, and three primary care board members - one from each locality. The Deanery will be split into schools and each school is likely to be hosted by another NHS organisation.

It is unclear where the GP School will be hosted and it maybe an acute trust. The hosting trust would employ all trainees on training programmes and trainees would have a single contract with the hosting employer. This will make things a lot better for GP practices.

Things are certainly clearer for me now than they were yesterday - LET it Be!