GMC Visits

Working with local education providers

Regulating across the continuum

GMC

Undergraduate

Foundation

Year

1

PMETB

Foundation

Year

2

Specialty training

Merger

April

2010

GMC

Undergraduate

Foundation

Specialty training

Bringing together our QA processes

Building on quality in Education

Developing relationships and engagements

Our visits process

Emphasis on good practice

Enhanced Monitoring

Standards review

What is risk based visiting?

Risks:

Sites, themes, specialties and agenda items selected

on basis of risks

Common issues for all visits

Good practice:

‘Exceptional examples’ or new approaches to

problems

Evaluation, evidence, dissemination

Why regional visiting?

Five year regional visiting plan

All levels of education

Working together and managing transitions

Common issues and challenges

Sharing good practice and driving improvement

What does a regional review look like?

School team 1

School visits School visits

School team 2

LEP visits

LETB teamTeam members from the school visit

teams

School team 3

LETB/Deanery visit

School ReportsSchool visits

LEP visits LEP ReportsLEP visits

Regional report

LETB/Deanery Report

What do regional visits focus on?

Risks identified at action planning – sites,

specialties and themes.

Quality management processes – identifying and

managing concerns and sharing good practice.

Regional challenges and joint working.

To do this we will meet with..

…students, doctors in training, teachers, trainers,

support staff, QM staff and management.

Thematic visiting

Agile and flexible

Focussed on local education providers e.g. site

visits

Recent checks to Emergency Medicine, Clinical

Academic Training, Small Specialty Reviews,

upcoming undermining & bullying checks

Reporting varies according to theme and size of

visits

Approach to monitoring varies, but will normally be

through quality managers

Enhanced Monitoring

Applies to patient safety and serious education issues

Responsive

We participate in quality management visits to LEPs to support deaneries/LETBs

Reporting and monitoring: locally-led

What’s next?

2014 (Q3/4)Small specialty reviews: Audiovestibular Medicine and Psychiatry of Learning DisabilityRegional Reviews to Yorkshire and the Humber and Thames ValleyUndermining and Bullying Checks (12 sites)

2015Regional reviews to KSS, East of EnglandGPs in acute setting checks3 small specialty reviewsThematic checks (tbd)