Wakefield Trainee Feedback

The results of the GMC National Training Survey has been published this week. To read the summary report click here. The report is following the annual questionnaire to 100,000 trainee doctors and their trainers in the UK. The complete data base is searchable and in the public domain, click here for the full data base.

I have looked for any specific observations relevant to general practice. In the survey there were questions about workload intensity. Below is a graph of how trainers viewed the intensity of their work:

And below is a similar chart of how trainee viewed the intensity of their work"


There is a large difference between how trainees and trainers view the intensity of their work - 84.5% of GP trainers view their workload as heavy or very heavy compared to 36.6% of GP trainees. This is worthy of further exploration but might just be an indicator of why morale is low in general practice and why resilience is weak.

It was also reflected in another graph of how often GP trainer work beyond their rostered hours. Nearly 40% of GP trainers working longer than their planned hours every day:

However general practice workload intensity and long hours are not affecting the quality of teaching and the experience that trainees get in general practice training posts. 91.4% of GP trainees rated the quality of teaching in their training post as good or very good (compared to 72.9% of secondary care trainees) and 93.6% of GPs rated the quality of experience of their post as excellent or good compared to 75.8% of secondary care trainees.


And of course what we all want to know is are there any local data - do we have a chart of how well local GP training practices have done? Well of course we do:







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