Primary Care in Practice

We understand that starting out in independent practice can be daunting, and there may be other non-clinical skills that you wish to explore and develop to enhance your experience and confidence.

We want to help you feel prepared and confident while learning alongside your new colleagues and peers. That’s why we’re excited to offer a free learning program open to the wider Primary Care Workforce, organised by the Coventry and Warwickshire Training Hub and hosted by local GPs. These sessions will be held as a combination of virtual sessions (through Zoom) and face-to-face sessions.

Topics include:

  • What support is available to those working within Primary Care?
  • What is Primary Care?
  • Leadership structure within Primary Care
  • The different roles and responsibilities within Primary Care

For more information, please register your interest here or email any questions to crgpa.education.cwth@nhs.net

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) funding

Government funding has been made available to support Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Nurses and Midwives with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) across the UK. The funding is there to help you build upon existing skills that are vital to the services and communities we support.

The funding equates to £1,000 over three financial years per eligible registered health professional, equaling £333 per year. Funded CPD should be specifically linked to your personal professional requirements, as well as system and population health priorities.

How to access CPD funding

For details on how to access your CPD funding, contact us at cw.traininghub@nhs.net or complete the form below.

General Practice Mentoring Scheme

Mentoring is the opportunity to have comfortable guided conversations with someone who understands your role in General Practice and can share ideas, knowledge and experiences.  A Mentor can support with a range of areas, such as: appraisals, career development, complaints, leadership, partnership, parental leave, career break/return to work and retirement.

For more information on how to register for this scheme, please visit our Mentoring page.

Your Health and Wellbeing

We understand how busy and challenging working in healthcare can be. That’s why recharging your batteries is so important.

The Training Hub offers a wide variety of resources and programmes to support your wellbeing.

  • Work Well Programme (Shapes Toolkit)
  • Employee Assistance Programme (Vivup)
  • Wellbeing Sessions with MIND
  • Health and Wellbeing Champions
  • And more!

For more information and to view all our resources, please visit our webpage.

Learning Opportunities and Peer Support

e-Learning for Healthcare

The Musculoskeletal Primary Care programme is an accredited online training programme specifically designed to support first contact practitioners in a primary care environment. Each online session takes just 20-30 minutes and you’ll be able to record your knowledge and progress with self-assessments and completion certificates. To access this training programme, you’ll need to log in to your e-LfH account or register for an account.

Skills for Health

Complete mandatory training on subjects that fall under the UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) with Skills for Health. They offer e-learning sessions specifically designed in line with the CSTF to deliver consistency across the UK health sector. 

Subjects include:

  • Equality, diversity and human rights
  • Health, safety and welfare
  • NHS conflict resolution
  • Infection prevention and control
  • Safeguarding adults
  • Preventing radicalisation
  • Safeguarding children
  • Resuscitation

Versus Arthritis – Training and Education

Versus Arthritis has created several educational resources such as NICE-endorsed decision support tools to help you treat musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. Find out more about the training courses, webinars and resources on their website.

Chartered Society of Physiotherapists networks

Connect with others working in physiotherapy by joining one of these networks run by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (CSP):

  • First Contact Physiotherapy (FCP) network – this group welcomes members and invited guests. Email fcp@csp.org.uk to find out more and join the network
  • West Midlands Regional Network – this group, chaired by Senthilnathan Padmanabham, invites new CSP members. For more information on how to join, contact the CSP regional team: Mindy Dalloway (dallowaym@csp.org.uk) and Rachael Wadlow (wadlowr@csp.org.uk)
  • iCSP forum – join the forum to chat with colleagues about all aspects of first contact physiotherapy

Members can take advantage of the CSP Learning Hub – a virtual learning collection courses, modules and ‘eBites’.

HEE Midlands AHP Network

Stay up to date with the latest AHP news, opportunities and sharing of good practice across the region by registering with the HEE Midlands AHP Network.

AHP Virtual Hub

Join the AHP Virtual Hub on FutureNHS – a collaborate working space and network where you can connect with peers to share resources and ideas. 

The hub also hosts useful resources and information to help you celebrate AHPs’ Day (annually on 14 October) and share your local plans to help raise the profile of AHPs.

How to join: Go to AHP Virtual Hub and log in to your FutureNHS account. If you don’t already have an account, email seniorahpmanager@future.nhs.uk to request access.

Leadership development

Versus Arthritis MSK Champions Programme

This fully funded 18-month programme is created in partnership with Ashridge Executive Education. It will coach you to develop your personal leadership skills, enabling you to initiate a service improvement project with a local or national focus.

CSP Leadership Development Programme

This interactive two-semester modular programme includes 300 hours of learning via online tuition, action learning sets, group discussion, workshops and more. Apply for a place via the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.

Midlands Leadership and Lifelong Learning Academy

The academy offers a series of leadership programmes to support you in developing your skills, attitudes and behaviours to achieve the highest standards in health and care.