Paediatric Training

Small but beautifully formed, our Deanery recently combined with the Trent Deanery to form the Greater East Midlands Deanery.

 

This still causes much confusion, but we are currently operating as a federation with the North - two areas with common principles and procedures, commmon standards and aims, but a diversity of style and approach to some issues. So 'East Midlands (South)' is the same as 'East Midlands (Leicester)' is the same as 'LNR' is the same as 'Trent South'. If you apply to EMS, you are applying to a Leicester based rotation, and not a Nottingham based one.

 

Geographically we cover the three counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland, and acute and community paediatric services are provided in Leicester, Kettering and Northampton. Historically the deanery was joined with the Trent Deanery, our neighbours to the north, based in Nottingham. Paediatric trainees based in Boston, Lincolnshire (nominally part of the Trent Deanery), rotate to Leicester. We also have strong training links with Peterborough (in the Eastern Deanery) and less formal links with Coventry and Birmingham.

 

Medical education and training in the East Midlands is very much a partnership. East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery oversees the quality, distribution and management of postgraduate medical education for General Practice, Secondary Care and Public Health. We work closely with those who deliver and those who undertake the training and education.

We hope that by providing high quality training opportunities, we will attract the best doctors to train in the East Midlands, and we are confident that many will wish to remain once their training is complete.

The deanery patch is geographically large and serves a population of 4.3 million. It has a healthcare workforce in excess of 80,000, with a breadth of learning and working environments, including some of the largest teaching hospitals nationally and some of the smallest rural primary care trusts.

The diversity of the population and sites for the delivery of healthcare mean that the East Midlands has an extensive range of opportunities for learning and extending your medical education over the years to come. We have established 16 Postgraduate Specialty Schools run locally by consultants, and a large and well connected GP directorate with an extensive range of programme directors.

We keep our rotations as small and as manageable as possible whilst ensuring they deliver the range of opportunities needed to meet the specialty curricula. We endeavour to make sure that when you apply to one of our programmes, you are clear about the range of sites you might be asked to work in and an indication of the periods of training at each.

(The map of the Deanery is based on an LNR Workforce Development Corporation map).

 

 

 

 

 

NHS East Midlands is the headquarters of the NHS in the East Midlands and was formally established on 1 July 2006, replacing the former Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority and Trent Strategic Health Authority. 

NHS East Midlands says it 'provides strategic leadership to NHS organisations in the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Rutland. These organisations have a total NHS budget of £4.1bn, and serve a combined population of 4.3 million.'  So that's one interview question answered. 

 

Trusts within the Deanery area:

Leicester is a thriving city in the centre of England. It offers all the attractions of a busy urban setting with rolling countryside within easy reach. The city has a rich history going back to Roman times and now has prosperous industries based upon hosiery, light engineering, printing and a range of service activities.

The Leicester market is one of the largest in Europe and has occupied its present site, in the centre of the city, for over 700 years. The surrounding shops are set in an attractive pedestrianised area; there are two enclosed shopping centres and squares, lanes and arcades with smaller shops and cafes. The city has some fine parks including Castle Gardens and Abbey Park, both alongside the River Soar, and Victoria Park, which is adjacent to the University.

The Haymarket is one of the country’s leading theatres and has a large auditorium as well as a small studio. The Phoenix Arts Centre particularly attracts young people with a varied programme of film, drama, dance and music. The De Montfort Hall, adjacent to the University, is one of the finest concert venues outside London and the city has a fine collection of museums. The city centre is linked to the Museum and Art Gallery and to the De Montfort Hall by New Walk, an elegant pedestrian thoroughfare laid out in 1785.