Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board Academy

Rural Health

GP+ Programme focused on Rural Health, offers you the opportunity to develop skills within pre-hospital medicine. This could include spending your training time between the Urgent Primary Care Centre and Emergency Department. You will be allocated a dedicated mentor to support you throughout.

Alongside your training, support will be provided to enable you to undertake a project of work with a focus on rural health and prepare a poster presentation based on your findings, to submit to a UK conference.

You will be spending your Salaried GP time in a Rural GP Practice, where access is traditionally affected by rurality, and it's associated burdens.

A mountainous landscape vista with the setting sun silhouetting a lone hiker on a ridge.

Objectives & Training

  • Undertake a short pre-hospital medicine course
  • Welsh language residential training
  • Prepare an abstract submission for Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) or Rural Health Conference and poster presentation if abstract is successful
  • Potential opportunity to undertake a training placement in an Emergency Department or Urgent Primary Care Centre
  • Potential opportunity to support training for mountain rescue organisations locally

Course Content

Please note, this is a guide to the general content of the Rural Health GP+ programme and is subject to change based on training placements available and agreed job plan.

Quarter: 1

  • Induction/Welcome to the Practice.
  • Meeting with GP+ team – course overview
  • Finalising job plan
  • Identifying learning and development needs
  • Meet mentor
  • First peer support group meeting
  • Opportunity to commence Emergency Department or Urgent Primary Care Centre placement (1day per week)

Quarter: 2

  • Peer support group meeting
  • Continue placement (if commenced in Q1)

Quarter: 3

  • Peer support group meeting
  • Placement (1day per week)
  • Abstract submission
  • Meet with Practice management and GP+ team to plan for stepping off the training course

Quarter: 4

  • Peer support group meeting
  • Placement (1day per week)
  • Attendance and poster presentation at conference

Towards the end of your training programme the GP+ team will meet with you and the practice management team to agree next steps and discuss what support is required once you step off the programme. ​

Although stepping off the programme could look different for each GP, your salaried GP role is guaranteed and your salary will be reviewed. It is envisioned that for the Rural GP role, you could work in an Urgent Care setting and/or take a lead in the practice for pre-hospital medicine/ Rural health.

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