GP career options
Support for GPs throughout their careers
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"This document sets out the various types of support available to you throughout your career as a general practitioner in England. The guide focuses on support for you – not the practice or the wider system."
The GP Career Support Hub aims to help doctors understand which options are available to them at different stages in their career.
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General Practice - the best place to work gives an overview and links to the various GP recruitment and retention opportunities.
GP Support pack (NHS England, September 2018)
GP career support - wellbeing (ROAN 20d:)
Support for GPs in Somerset (Dr Tim Taylor, February 2020)
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Doctors new to the UK
ROAN Info Sheet 11: Doctors new to the UK
Newly qualified GPs and the first 5 years
experienced GPs
ROAN Info Sheet 20a: GP career support - experienced GPs
GP Career Plus peer support groups in Somerset (Somerset Primary Healthcare Ltd, Somerset LMC, February 2020)
Career breaks, returners and leavers
GP Return to Practice scheme (2021) (Health Education England)
The NHS GP Return to Practice (RtP) programme provides a safe, supported pathway for qualified GPs to return to NHS General Practice after an absence of more than 2 years.
The NHS GP Return to Practice (RtP) programme provides a safe, supported pathway for qualified GPs to return to NHS General Practice after an absence of more than 2 years.
GP Retention Scheme (Health Education England and NHS England)
"The GP Retention Scheme is a package of financial and educational support to help doctors, who might otherwise leave the profession, remain in clinical general practice."
"The GP Retention Scheme is a package of financial and educational support to help doctors, who might otherwise leave the profession, remain in clinical general practice."
GP Induction and Refresher scheme
Details of the GP Induction and refresher scheme including the new portfolio route are available from NHS England.
ROAN Info Sheet 20b: GP career support - career break, returners, leavers
GP Returner (website, NHS England) includes a video and a brochure to download.
going abroad
"The golden rule when planning to spend time outside the UK is to plan your re-entry before going.
Please contact your responsible officer (usually via your appraisal team) for advice at least three months before you leave.
If your plans change while you are away, contact [the team] to discuss."
Please contact your responsible officer (usually via your appraisal team) for advice at least three months before you leave.
If your plans change while you are away, contact [the team] to discuss."
"We expect you to collect supporting information from practice you undertake in the UK.
Only in exceptional circumstances would a doctor with supporting information drawn wholly or substantively from overseas practice be able to maintain their UK licence to practise.
Responsible officers or suitable persons may decide to accept supporting information from overseas practice if they are satisfied that it meets the same standards as those expected in the UK and so gives them assurance about your continued fitness to practise.
Speak to your responsible officer or suitable person if you intend to practise overseas while holding a UK licence to practise."
Only in exceptional circumstances would a doctor with supporting information drawn wholly or substantively from overseas practice be able to maintain their UK licence to practise.
Responsible officers or suitable persons may decide to accept supporting information from overseas practice if they are satisfied that it meets the same standards as those expected in the UK and so gives them assurance about your continued fitness to practise.
Speak to your responsible officer or suitable person if you intend to practise overseas while holding a UK licence to practise."
GP Induction and Refresher scheme
Details of the GP Induction and refresher scheme including the new portfolio route are available from NHS England.
The Portfolio Route gives the option for GPs, who have worked in NHS general practice in the previous five years and are working abroad in an equivalent primary care setting, to return smoothly to the UK by providing information from their overseas practice rather than take the Induction & Refresher Scheme assessments.
Ideally, before a GP leaves the UK to start a new job abroad they should familiarise themselves with the documentation required for the Portfolio Route. For more information visit the General Practice National Recruitment Office.
Restoring license and performers list registration
"If you decide to restore your licence and you were up to date with your revalidation when you gave it up, it’s relatively straightforward to get it back.
The average time for licence restoration during the period from August 2016 to August 2017 was 22 days. You can apply for restoration up to three months in advance."
The average time for licence restoration during the period from August 2016 to August 2017 was 22 days. You can apply for restoration up to three months in advance."
License restoration (GMC)
A Guide to the National Performers Lists Change Notification Process (NHS England, May 2017)
A Guide to the National Performers Lists Change Notification Process (NHS England, May 2017)