Welcome to our practice managers’ page. We hope that this can be a focus for information and discussion about postgraduate training in general practice.

Please let us know of any particular information or links to sources that you feel will be useful.

An update on GP training for practice managers was held on 16 June 2011 at the Abbey Hotel, Malvern. There was a presentation by Vic Schrieber and the PowerPoint that he used is available for download HERE. 

For all enquiries related to GP specialty training and foundation GP placements, your first port of call should be the Herefordshire and Worcestershire Training Programme Administrator, Kate Faulkner-Elliott. You can send an email to her from here. If she does not know the answer to your question, she will know someone who does.

However, we are not expert at employer issues like maternity leave and salary scales. Advice can usually be obtained from your PCT. Another useful information source is the West Midlands Deanery GP training FAQs which can be accessed from this website using the list on the left of this page. If you can’t find the answer there, you could try NHS employers, or the British Medical Association.

We recommend that you use the BMA’s model contract for GP trainees.

Foundation doctors remain employees of the acute trust during their GP placements so you should direct any employment queries about them to the trust’s HR team.

We are, of course, happy to advise on any purely training issues such as study leave entitlement.

Please suggest any resources that you wish to see on the website and encourage the trainers, trainees and other staff at your practice to use it.