Less Than Fulltime Training

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Less Than Full-time Training GP Returner
Programme

• Dr Kevin Hill
• Deputy Postgraduate Dean GP
• East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery

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Less than Full-Time Training

• EAST MIDLANDS DEANERY SUPPORTS THOSE DOCTORS
  WHO FOR WELL-FOUNDED REASONS WISH TO TRAIN ON A
  LESS THAN FULL-TIME BASIS
• ELIGIBILITY
• Caring for a dependent child
• Caring for a ill / disabled partner, relative or
  other dependent
• Disability or ill health

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EU Legislation

• EU Directive 1993/16/EEC
• EU Directive 2005/36/EC
• Training should not be qualitatively different
  from that of a full-timer
• Usually 50-80

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Principle of pro rata

• Normal full-time working week 10 sessions (40
  hrs)
• 7 Clinical sessions
• 3 Educational sessions
• 1 Half-day release
• 1 Practice delivered education (equivalent)
• 1 Independent learning
• Example LTFT 60 6 sessions (24 hrs)
• 4.2 Clinical sessions
• 1.8 Educational sessions
• 0.6 Half-day release
• 0.6 Practice delivered education
  (equivalent)
• 0.6 Independent learning

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The Working Week

• A balance between
• GP StR personal arrangements
• Practice room availability / GP Trainer hours
• GP StR educational needs
• Childcare arrangement should be arranged
  around work requirements not vice versa

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GP Returner Programme

• GP Returners
• Qualified GPs who have previously completed
  training
• Out of practice for more than TWO years
• 6 months full-time (9 sessions) or part-time
  equivalent
• Employed by practice (as with registrar)
• Entry knowledge test and exit MRCGP Applied
  Knowledge Test

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GP Returner Programme

• Financing
• Deanery pays practice 30k
• 4k training grant
• 2k medical defence fees
• 24k for salary and on-costs
• Expectations of training practice
• Learning needs assessment
• Tutorial / debriefs