Educators and Learning Organisations
Quality Management & Assurance Processes for Primary Care Educators and Learning Organisations
From 1st November 2021, BLMK ICS Primary Care Training Hub has taken responsibility from Health Education East of England for the management of Educators and Learning Organisations in Bedfordshire and Luton. Please note that whilst we work with the Thames Valley Deanery, the Deanery retains responsibility and manages Milton Keynes GP Educators and placement sites.
BLMK Training Hub is now responsible for the following activities for Bedford and Luton:
- Educator and Learning Environment reapproval
- Educator and Learning Environment first approval
- PCN Learning Environment approval
- Ongoing quality management of Educators and Learning Environments
- Training new Educators
The new Training Hub delivered model includes Medical and Clinical Professions.
Meet the Training Hub Quality Team
Dr Sadaf Javed – Dr Javed is our Quality & Differential Attainment Lead – Medical Practice and is also our Educator Expansion Lead. Dr Javed is also a GP Partner and GP Trainer.
Kirsty Shanley – Kirsty is our Quality & Differential Attainment Lead – Clinical Practice. Kirsty is also a Practice Nurse and Education Lead in Bedford and one of the GPN Leads in the Training Hub for Bedfordshire.
Janet Thornley – Janet shares the Quality & Differential Attainment Lead – Clinical Practice role with Kirsty. Janet is also our Strategic GPN Lead and Health & Wellbeing Lead.
Hannah Baker – Hannah is our Project Lead.
Yuliya Baker – Yuliya is our Workforce Project Manager.
Justine Platt – Justine is our Quality Project Support.
We have a new generic inbox for all queries and applications to be sent to. Please send any communication to this address blmkicb.blmk.traininghubqualityteam@nhs.net
If you would like to raise a complaint of any kind, please send your concerns to the above inbox. If you would prefer to speak to the Primary Care School directly, please visit their website here Primary Care Home | East of England (hee.nhs.uk)
If you are a trainee and would like to provide us with feedback on your placement or Educator, please complete the feedback survey here https://forms.office.com/e/6kTtwdmadY . Your feedback will help inform our work however we can anonymise your responses.