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Learning Environmental Information

We are committed to growing an inclusive and supportive community for trainees and educators across our city and county. 

As part of changes from NHSE, The Hub Plus Derbyshire will soon be supporting the approval of learning environments for students and trainees across different professions. We will work in partnership with other stakeholders to ensure training opportunities are inclusive, high quality and committed to learning. We will also be delivering training to support multi-professional educators.

If you have questions about educator and learning environment approvals, or do not currently accept students but would like to get involved please email us ddlmc.thehubplus@nhs.net.

Practice Learning Environments

Establish your practice as an approved learning environment

In order to support recruitment, retention and development of Derbyshire's Primary Care workforce we need to prioritise trainee experiences, ensuring they are high quality, representative and informative. 

Currently all practices are approved individually by each university and profession to accept students. Soon there will be a new process to allow multi-professional approval to be granted for all participating universities. 

If your practice's approval is due soon, please get in touch to see if we can support you to gain multi-professional approval across all partners.

Larger Learning Environments

We recognise the important role Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and other larger organisations delivering patient care have in supporting the future workforce for primary care.

We are currently working towards a trial of approvals within a larger footprint to grow multi-professional educator capacity and expand placements. This could be an entire PCN, part of a PCN or an allied care provider such as an Integrated Neighbourhood Team.

There are two parts to a larger Learning Environment:

1) The recognition of multiple locations as learning environments across a single PCN footprint working together to support quality training and placements

  • This may include General Practice, care homes and any other clinical educational environments deemed appropriate to host training and placements for primary care.

2) Evidence to demonstrate the quality of education in the PCN, how this supports a mix of learners and a commitment to developing educators

  • The PCN Learning Environment must evidence all approved educators and training locations in the PCN and detail the types of learners hosted for training and placements.

If you would like more information about how to become a PCN Learning Environment please get in touch.