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London Trainee Support – Raising Concerns

Ideally training should flow smoothly from start to finish. However, we know this is not always the case, and with so many different professional bodies involved in our training, it can be difficult to know who to turn to if certain issues arise.

To get the most appropriate support it is important to raise your issue through the appropriate channels. The new regional approach to raising concerns in London is now live. The new pathway will provide a clear and transparent process for both educators and learners, and allow concerns raised to managed by the appropriate parties, and resolved in a timely manner. Please see the support flowchart below.

The new approach also includes a new raising concerns portal, found here. This portal can be used by either educators or learners regarding any education or quality concerns which have not been able to be resolved at local level (i.e. within the host department, organisation or university). Do note that this new approach doesn’t take away from NSHCS-led processes but the aim is for the local National School representatives to have greater awareness of concerns in region so that the necessary support can be provided.

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London STP Experiences Survey 2017

Thank you to so many of you that took part in our recent survey to anonymously record the feedback of past and present STP trainees in London. This survey focused on the trainee’s first-hand experiences of the quality and organisation of their training in their host department and in departments where they completed rotations.

The Network has now collated this information in the form of a report which we will submit to the Expert Review Panel for the London STP Training Post Applications 2018/2019. Each year departments can submit applications to request new STP trainees and these are reviewed by the Panel to decide which bids will be successful. We hope that by feeding back the information from our survey to the Panel, this will help support the applications of the departments where trainees have had the best experiences of training.

For any trainee that has not yet completed the survey, there is still time to do so, although we won’t be able to include this data in our submitted report.