Approval of Experience and Health Authority
Lists
Approval of Experience
Forms
VTR1 and
VTR2 need
to be sent by you to the JCPTGP to have your experience approved.
** The
Health Authority will not allow you to practice unless they have
confirmation of your Satisfactory completion of Experience by the JCPTGP.
Similarly, it will not be possible for you to obtain locum work within
practices.
** Send VTR2 from your hospital work to the JCPTGP early and have these
approved, preferably just after your hospital posts are completed but
certainly at the start of your registrar year. This is particularly
important if any of these posts have occurred abroad as these may well not
be accepted by the JCPTGP as part of your experience and therefore further
jobs may need to be undertaken.
Primary Care Trusts Lists
Various lists are maintained by the Health Authority allowing additional
payments for qualifying GPs. Under the new GMS PMS Contracts these may no
longer be required. However, if a registrar is able to be added to these
lists it will increase the attractiveness of that individual to any given
practice.
- The Obstetrics List
This
is becoming less important as Midwives take on more antenatal care,
nonetheless there is still a differential payment available to General
Practictioners who are on the Obstetric List as opposed to those who are
not.
- Child Health
Surveillance
As mentioned
earlier in the handbook we do run a course during the year to enable
application for the MRCGP and joining the Child Health Surveillance List.
- Minor Surgery List
Applications
to be included in the minor surgery list are considered in some detail
concerning individuals’ previous experience and attendance at a GP minor
surgery workshop. Doctors may only claim payment if the minor surgery is
performed in premises approved specifically for minor surgery.
We run
a minor surgery course to update your skills. You are not expected to be
capable of doing every procedure documented in the schedule. The Primary
Care Trust will give approval depending on where you are working. If you
move practice then re-approval is required. The Primary Care Trust do keep
a ‘Locum List’, provided you practice in approved buildings.
**
You are asked to state that you are competent to perform all of the
procedures in the regulation. If you pick and choose they will refuse your
approval therefore you sign saying you can perform all of them and do not
perform the ones you feel unable to perform. Crazy, but true!
Minor surgery form
- Family Planning
The
Primary Care Trust accept that Vocational Training equips a GP for the
provision of family planning as part of general medical services (ie. No
additional training is needed. We run a 2 day course which completes the
theoretical part of Family Planning and is recognised by the Faculty of
Family Planning which is part of the Royal College of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology. The address is:
27 Sussex Place
Regent’s Park
London NW1 4RG Tel: 020 77245647
http://www.ffprhc.org.uk/
Once
you have completed this, it is then difficult to organise approval of the
practical aspects of Family Planning by attending the required number of
Family Planning sessions. There are two components – firstly the basic
practical diploma (DFFP) and secondly a separate coil certification (if
wanted).
i.
You need to be assessed by at least two doctors while fitting ten
coils, five of which need to be performed in a dedicated coil fitting Family
Planning Clinic. Your Trainer, if he fits coils, is able to approve half of
the ten coil fittings which you need to complete.
ii.
You may find it easier to organise the practical part of your
experiences in other areas which have a much shorter waiting list. The
address is:
Family
Planning Clinic
St
Paul’s Wing
Cheltenham General Hospital
Cheltenham
GL53
7AN
Tel:
08454 222374
Alternatively, contact the Bristol Family Planning Service. The address is:
Central
Health Centre
Tower
Hill
Bristol
Tel:
0117 – 9276781
**
If you have any problems with these lists the contact is Valerie Veysey,
Avon Health, Kings Square House, Kings Square, Bristol, (0117 9766600)
** The Primary Care Support
Agency at Avon Health is the contact for Child Health Surveillance
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