The Educator Magazine U.K. Sept-Dec 2022 - Magazine - Page 69
The 2022 Enhancing Junior Doctors’
Working Lives report highlights the
strides that HEE has made with
expanding flexibility, improving recruitment, and resetting education and
training to build on what we have learnt
from the pandemic.
Safe, high quality patient care is best
delivered by a highly motivated
workforce that feels valued; engagement
with doctors in postgraduate training is
essential to HEE’s work and HEE
continues to listen to doctors and
respond to their feedback and concerns.
HEE continues to focus on providing
flexibility in training and enabling a
medical career to be more tailored to the
individual. Less than full time training
has traditionally only been available
to those with caring or health needs
or those with unique opportunities for
personal development. Responding
to valued trainee views, all doctors in
postgraduate training can now apply to
train on a less than full time basis for any
reason, with close to 800 doctors having
taken up this option so far. HEE also aims
to support those doctors taking time to
make career and training choices.
The recognition of experience completed outside of training programmes
enables a more efficient training
pathway, a reduction in costs and
enhances the rate of senior workforce
provision.
Training said:
“I am so proud of all of the incredible
work that has been achieved as part of
the Enhancing Junior Doctors’ Working
Lives Programme, as highlighted in our
sixth report.
The report highlights many other
improvements in medical education
and training:
“Health Education England has been
working side by side with our
postgraduate doctors in training and
system partners to deliver a variety of
initiatives, valuing and developing
doctors to ensure the best quality
patient care. As well as recognising that
doctors want the opportunity to train
flexibly, we have invested 26 million
pounds into the COVID-19 training
recovery programme to support solutions and mitigate significant risks to
training progression and wellbeing.
I would like to take this opportunity
again to thank every doctor for their
commitment during the pandemic and
beyond where the professional and
personal challenges have been significant for everyone.”
• Adaptation of recruitment processes
following the pandemic has enabled
HEE to optimise the use of
technology, while the use of statistical
analysis ensures equality, diversity and
inclusion are fully considered.
• 26 million pounds has been invested
into the COVID-19 training recovery
programme to support solutions and
mitigate significant risks to training
progression and wellbeing.
• HEE has created the first NHS-wide
patient safety syllabus which will result
in NHS employees receiving enhanced
patient safety training.
Professor Wendy Reid, Executive Medical
Director and Director of Education and
See the full report for further details
https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/
doctors-training/enhancing-working-lives