As a learning environment, you have the opportunity to guide and shape our future primary care workforce.
As the NHS transforms to bring care closer to communities through the 10-Year Health Plan, approved learning environments play a vital role in preparing aspiring GPs and multi-professional primary care learners with the skills and confidence to deliver excellent patient care.
Becoming an approved learning environment allows you to attract and retain high-quality staff.
As a learning environment, you have the opportunity to lead the way in primary care training. Increasing your training capacity allows you to strengthen your legacy, continuously enhance patient care and foster a culture of continuous learning so your multidisciplinary teams are equipped to meet the evolving needs of your community.
You are needed now more than ever to shape the future of primary care.
Becoming a GP educator has transformed Dr Jamie Parker’s professional life in ways he never expected. He describes his experience:
"It is so refreshing to spend time with enthusiastic resident doctors and other educators. I have developed some very close relationships over the years and see my educational role as key to my professional happiness.”
His GP practice recognised the value of his educational work by allocating him a dedicated session each week, allowing him to properly support resident doctors without feeling overwhelmed. This time investment has benefited both Jamie and his practice.
The benefits of being a learning environment for your practice
By expanding training capacity, you're not only supporting learners but actively participating in the transformation that will improve patient care and deliver that care closer to where people live.
Becoming an approved learning environment brings tangible benefits to your practice, including:
- contacts and networking with other doctors and practices training
- helping to further develop a learning environment at the practice
- increasing diversity of activity in the practice including educational and quality improvement activities
- increasing in the number of appointments available for patients
- strengthening the care, you provide to your local community
- creating opportunities for recruitment of former GP registrars
Your commitment to training leaves a legacy, with improved patient care, increased capacity to meet community needs, and a culture of continuous learning that benefits both your current team and future generations of primary care professionals.
Hear from primary care educators working in approved learning environments
Interested in becoming an approved learning environment but want to know more about how it works in practice? Read primary care educator case studies to discover the benefits for you, your service and patients.
Further information
Find out more about the requirements for becoming an approved learning environment, what the GP educator role involves, funding and support available for GP educators and the applications steps to become a GP educator in the West Midlands below:
Further information on the and GP educator role primary care approved learning environments in the West Midlands
Find out more about becoming an approved learning environment, your local training hubs details, and the GP educator role in the West Midlands, click on our pages below.
Contact us
If you have any questions on the approval process further to the information provided on these pages, please contact the local Training Hub.