Wednesday 9th February 2022
New Updates
COMING SOON: ARCP Requirements Guidance – 2021-22 trainees on 2021 curriculum – August 2021 to July 2022
Meanwhile, please refer to pages 49-50 of the 2021 UKFP Curriculum (that is, the ARCP checklist) using the link below
https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/curriculum/arcp/
Access the point of care tool BMJ Best Practice for free
BMJ Best Practice takes you quickly and accurately to the latest evidence-based information, whenever and wherever you need it.
Our step-by-step guidance on diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention is updated daily using robust evidence-based methodologies.
This tool is freely available to all healthcare professionals who work for the NHS in England. You can register for free here https://www.bmj.com/company/hee/
If your institution would like to receive further information on BMJ Best Practice, please contact Dr. Kieran Walsh, Clinical Director at BMJ. Dr. Walsh can deliver talks for Foundation Programme doctors at their training sessions or provide information on areas such as the local HEE/BMJ clinical champion scheme. Contact Dr. Kieran Walsh at kmwalsh@bmj.com.
Useful Information and Reminders
Foundation doctors in GP and psychiatry placements contributing to acute services
Please see below link reminder regarding Foundation doctors in community placements contributing to acute services Foundation doctors in GP and psychiatry placements contributing to acute services
Time out of training (Toot)
We would like to remind all trainees and trainers that the maximum permitted absence from training, other than annual leave is 20 days within each 12 month period of the foundation programme. Where a doctors absence goes above 20 days this will trigger a review of whether they need to have an extra period of training.
Update on IST (Improving Surgical Training) recruitment
On behalf of Prof Sheona MacLeod, Deputy Medical Director, Education Reform, HEE.
HEE have agreed to pause the recruitment to ALL IST posts in England for 2022. The number of surgical training places will be maintained as posts will be added back into core surgical recruitment. Wales and Scotland will continue to recruit to run through IST.
Click here for further information
PSG Guidance
Please find below a helpful PDF guidance document “The importance of the Placement Supervision Group (PSG) feedback tool”
Please share this with your trainees, FPDs and local FP faculty.
Foundation ALS Update
We can confirm that Trusts can continue to claim the costs of ALS courses for their Foundation trainees from the study leave budget for the 2021/22 financial year.
Please note that from 1st January 2022, ALS courses will only be reimbursed up to a maximum of £275 per trainee.
As in the previous financial year we will not be providing bulk payments for these courses. Instead, we request that you claim for these courses once they are delivered via the locally-delivered tab on your study leave monthly return. Please note the usual rules for locally-delivered claims will apply – only trainees in a HEE-registered Foundation training programme can be reimbursed.
What are the 2021-22 TAB (Team Assessment of Behaviour) window dates for London and KSS Foundation Schools?
The recommended dates for TAB are detailed below but these dates are not mandatory. More information on the TAB process can be found on the Horus Website.
Placement 2
Opens: Monday 14th February 2022
Closes: Tuesday 28th March 2022
Placement 3
Opens: Monday 18th April 2022
Closes: Friday 20th May 2022
Foundation Doctor Role and Responsibilities
Please use the following link to the updated ‘Foundation Doctor Role and Responsibilities within the Local Education Provider and Minimum Requirements for Clinical Supervision of Foundation Doctors’, document.
Foundation Doctor Role and Responsibilities
Foundation guidance produced by the UKFPO for Foundation Trainees
Please find below link to guidance for Foundation Trainees recently produced by the UKFPO.
Updated ARCP Requirement Guidance
Updated ARCP guidance has been published for trainees on 2016 Foundation Programme curriculum for ARCPs taking place between 1 October 2021 and 31 July 2022
ARCP Requirements Guidance – 2021-22 trainees on 2016 curriculum
*Please note: This guidance does not apply to any trainee who started either their F1 or F2 year on/after 4 August 2021, as they will be on the 2021 Foundation Programme curriculum.*
2022 PSA FS dates
Please note the remaining dates for PSA sittings (all held at 1pm):
Monday 14th March 2022
Friday 29th April 2022
Contacting the London and KSS Foundation Schools
There has recently been an increase in emails/messages being sent to personal inboxes. Please be reminded that contact with the Foundation Team in HET should be through the PGMDE Support Portal rather than to individuals email addresses or shared mailboxes. This will ensure that your query can be directed to the correct person within the team and dealt with as quickly as possible. Please click here to be directed to the PGMDE Support Portal.
Please do not use F1.LASE@Hee.nhs.uk, F2.lase@hee.nhs.uk, FPEnquiries.lase@hee.nhs.uk or personal inboxes.
UKFPO Bulletin
To read the latest UKFPO Bulletin access the link below:
https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/ukfpo-bulletin-03-february-202/
Courses, Events, Research and Competitions
UKFPO and NACT UK Sharing Best Practice day: Thursday 17th March 2022
The UKFPO and NACT UK are again hosting the annual ‘Sharing Best Practice’ day on Thursday 17th March 2022 at the Macdonald Burlington Hotel, Birmingham. (This will hopefully be a face to face meeting).
Previous year’s evaluation from the delegates suggested that having the Foundation School “Best Educational Innovation“ was much appreciated and worked well. In view of this we would like to ask you to nominate your top project of 2021/22 to share and present at this meeting and encourage Foundation doctors to share best practice too.
Submissions are welcome from anyone involved in supporting the training of foundation doctors
We will be short listing the abstracts submitted for poster presentations as well.
Please find attached the registration form (Reg Form FPSE) and flyer (FP Sharing Call for papers).
https://lonkssfoundation.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/Reg%20Form%20FPSE%20Mar%2022%20.pdf
For further information, please contact the NACT UK office: office@nact.org.uk
SAVE THE DATE: National Academic Foundation Programme Conference, Bristol - Saturday 11th June 2022
We are excited to announce that Bristol will be hosting the UKFPO national conference 2022. We hope this event will be of immediate practical assistance to anyone following an academic career path. Themes of academic research, education and leadership training will be included. There will be a focus on you, as trainees, and it will offer opportunities to present your research and network with your peers and senior academics.
Further details about the event, including how to register, will follow.
Who should attend?
The conference will be trainee-centred and will be of interest to academically minded medical students, foundation trainees and any faculty or more senior colleagues who are involved with academic foundation training. We hope the event will be of immediate practical assistance to any colleague following an academic career path, and those who are advising them. Themes of academic research, education and leadership training will be included. Further details will be sent out in due course.
New video resource for foundation trainees
A new video for all foundation trainees, foundation schools and trusts, helping them to understand more about the Foundation Programme Charter, has been shared.
Please click here to launch the Foundation Programme Charter video.
Further videos including Foundation Programme Review and Self Development time can also be found here
Foundation careers webpages
Our revised Foundation careers webpages which contain recorded versions of the FY1 webinars on self-awareness and career exploration which we delivered to trainees over the summer, can be found below:
Self Awareness | London (hee.nhs.uk)
Career Exploration | London (hee.nhs.uk)
Useful links