Derby GP Training Programme
The GP Training Programme is well-established, and is an inclusive, friendly, and supportive scheme for both GP trainees and GP trainers.
The programme continues to attract high quality candidates, producing excellent principals at the end of the three-year period.
Many of our trainees continue to practice in Derby and Southern Derbyshire after their training, with a high proportion joining us as trainers.
The programme is based at UHDB, at the Royal Derby Hospital site.
Contact us
Email: uhdb.gptraining@nhs.net
Telephone: 01332 785207
Postgraduate Office
Medical Education
Education Centre
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Derby Hospital
Derby
DE22 3NE
Training practices
Our training practices cover a substantial and diverse area throughout Derbyshire and its borders. Throughout your training, opportunities are provided for experience within both urban and rural areas.
We encourage you to consider travel arrangements due to the distance between our sites.
Our hospital posts are based at UHDB, at the Royal Derby Hospital, with some at linked Nottingham hospitals. The Royal Derby Hospital has 1,159 beds, and provides state-of-the-art care to over one million patients from Derby and the surrounding areas every year.
The map above shows the training practices for the Derby GP Training Programme.
Training placements
The GP Training Programme is structured as 24 months spent in general practice, and 12 months spent in acute hospital posts.
The hospital posts are undertaken at Speciality Training (ST) 1 and ST2 level, with the majority of posts based at the Royal Derby Hospital site. Training practices linked to the programme vary from urban, to suburban, to rural locations. All offer a very high standard of training and support, offering trainees the very best opportunity to develop into to confident and competent GPs.
Integrated training posts (ITP)
We offer the opportunity for GP registrars to gain additional experience in posts outside of general practice, to supplement their specialty placements.
The Derby GP Training Programme prides itself in being a front-runner in developing a suite of ITP options, having built on our experience of offering paediatric posts as an ITP for many years.
ITP placements are done during a ST2 general practice post, and typically involve two days per-week working within the specialty (with Wednesday as a protected educational day, and the other two days working within the practice).
The speciality placement will usually be based within an acute unit with plenty of opportunities for outpatient clinic experience and there is no on-call requirement.
Our ITP placements are:
- Children's Emergency Department (Royal Derby Hospital)
- Rheumatology (Royal Derby Hospital)
- Public Health
- Adult Emergency Department (Royal Derby Hospital)
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology (Royal Derby Hospital)
- Community Psychiatry (based in one of the four Community Mental Health team localities in South Derbyshire)
- Palliative Care (based at Ashgate Hospice in Chesterfield)
- GP Home Visiting services (Derby City South Primary Care Network and Alfreton, Ripley, Crich and Heanor Primary Care Network)
- Musculoskeletal Assessment and Treatment service
Out of hours
Please visit the East Midlands Local Education and Training Board website for detailed information about out of hours training.
The out of hours provider for Derbyshire is Derbyshire Health United, based at:
Johnson Building,
Locomotive Way,
Derby DE24 8PU
Telephone: 0300 100 0404
Programme teaching (half-day release) and courses
We provide an extensive and highly regarded half-day release (HDR) teaching programme, which follows the Royal College of GPs curriculum and is well supported by local hospital consultants and experienced GP trainers.
The groups meet on a weekly basis for educational sessions focused on topics relevant to primary care, covering areas ranging from foundation skills and portfolio orientation, to clinical conditions, and progressing to complex care and practice management.
You will progress through training with your peers and your training programme directors, developing skills essential for a rewarding career in general practice.
As a programme, we have an ethos to encourage you as adult learners to develop your organisational and leadership skills by being fully involved in the planning and delivery of the HDR sessions with appropriate guidance and support from our team.
We also offer a number of ‘special events’ through your training which include the following:
- Portfolio training (with programme induction)
- Communication skills course (ST1)
- End of life course (ST2)
- Child health course (ST3)
- Diabetes day
- Exhibition events
- Autumn symposium (for your year group)
- Spring symposium (full programme with emphasis on quality improvement activities)
Study leave
NHS England (NHSE) is committed to supporting training for postgraduate doctors, dentists, and learners. After starting with the Derby GP Training Programme, you will be provided with guidance on using your study leave entitlements.
For study leave information for GP postgraduate doctors in training (NHSE) >, visit the NHSE East Midlands website.
Less Than Full-Time (LTFT) Training
NHSE is committed to increasing flexibility in postgraduate medical training by offering LTFT training (NHSE) >.
The key aims of LTFT training are:
- To retain doctors within the NHS workforce who are unable to train on a full-time basis
- To promote career development and work/life balance for doctors training within the NHS
- To ensure continued training in programmes on a time-equivalent (pro rata) basis
- To maintain a balance in LTFT arrangements with regards to educational needs and those of the service