School of General Practice East of England Deanery

The School of General Practice is based at the Ida Darwin Site. It has formed following recommendations from PMETB that specialist training programmes should be the responsibility of training schools.

The school is responsible for the recruitment, training, quality assurance and continued professional development of all trainees and General Practitioners in Essex , Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Its board consists of The GP Associate Directors, Representatives from the specialist training programmes, PCTs , RCGP and LMCs, Tutors and Programme Directors.

The Head of the School is the GP Director, Arthur Hibble and it is to be chaired by Simon Downs. Each county is represented by a patch Director (and patch administrator). There are two hundred and eighty training practices, seven hundred and twenty trainees, and fifty one course organisers. In addition we have forty sessions of GP tutor time and they will be liaising with PCTs to ensure relevant continuing professional development.

We collaborate with other organisations who have an interest in the development of General Practice. These include The Universities of Cambridge, Luton, East Anglia, Anglia Ruskin and the postgraduate school at Herts and Beds as well as PCTs and Hospital trusts.

Our overall Aim is to Ensure the Delivery of High Quality Patient care in the NHS by:

• Delivering high quality education for general practice trainees
• Supporting good education for and continuing development of established GPs
• Supporting GP educators
• Facilitating development of multi-professional education within primary care.
• Facilitating and fostering educational research

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