Stockport GP Trainers
- Enthusiastic, committed and supportive GP Trainers (Half the present Trainers’ Group and many other local GPs have stayed in Stockport after training here)
- Well-organised friendly practices offering a wide range of facilities, services to patients and training experience
- Long-established excellent,popular Day Release Scheme with strong tradition of mutual support and study groups.Carefully constructed programme using a wide range of local consultants and GPs, complementing and augmenting the training you will receive in your own practice
- High standards of medical care – Stockport Training Practices expect to score highly on Quality & Outcome points under new GP contract
- Choose from small/large suburban/semi-rural GMS/PMS practices, male/female Trainers, “affluent”/”challenging”/multicultural practice areas
- Flexible and part-time training opportunities
- Reasonable workloads
- Fantastic “away-2-day” in Buxton in September to meet other Day Release GPRs – emphasis on fun and friendship rather than work
- Support in passing nMRCGP, the trainers put on a Mock Clinical Skills Assessment each year and focus their work with their registrars on consulation skills to help them pass.
- Mastercall Out-of-Hours Co-Operative with a deservedly high reputation (experience in telephone triage, centre-based consultations and home visits with driver and fully-equipped vehicle, purpose-built premises, nurse triage, support always available, training sessions meet Deanery requirements)
- Purpose-built Post-Graduate Education Centre and Library
- Stockport PCT and Acute Trust are both three-star Trusts; Stockport Acute Trust is applying for foundation status.
- Enthusiastic and energetic Associate Adviser representing Stockport’s Training interests in the North West Deanery.
- Referral rights to secondary and tertiary services at Stockport, Manchester and Macclesfield hospitals.
- Opportunities to attend dermatology and other clinics; courses on Child health Surveillance, Minor Surgery and Family Planning.
- Preparation for independent and reflective practice and appraisal, whether as a GP principal, in salaried employment or as a freelance GP.
- Easy commuting distance from a wide range of locations in North West including Didsbury, Cheshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire
- Past/present GPRs recommend! See what they have to say.