KSS/GMC

Kent Surrey and Sussex Deanery/GMC

The Kent, Surrey and Sussex (KSS) Deanery coordinates the delivery and funding of postgraduate medical and dental education in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

www.kssdeanery.org

The General Medical Council (GMC) is the independent statutory body that regulates undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training in the UK. The GMC’s Quality Framework (QF) sets out the Deanery’s responsibility for quality management of postgraduate medical education and training. The Deanery must satisfy itself that local education and training providers are meeting the GMC standards through robust reporting and monitoring mechanisms. The Deanery must also be able to demonstrate that it is meeting the GMC’s Standards for Deaneries.

The GMC has published two documents that set out all of its standards and requirements:

• The Trainee Doctor which consolidates the foundation and specialty including GP standards for training, and incorporates the standards for deaneries

• Standards for curricula and assessment systems

KSS Deanery aims to meet or exceed all the GMC Quality Standards for Postgraduate Medical Education and the Standards for Deaneries. We are committed to ensuring the highest standards are attained throughout the organisation. To this end, the Quality Management Steering Group, chaired by the Dean Director, meets monthly to ensure standards are being maintained and upheld, and to ensure a formalised management process exists to remedy any shortcomings.

KSS Deanery has developed Quality Management systems to ensure that trainee doctors are provided with the best possible training experiences throughout their period of training in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Trainee Raising Concerns (Whistleblowing) Guidance.

Please find below a link to the revised version of KSS Deanery’s publication: Trainee Raising Concerns (Whistleblowing) Guidance. This has been updated in light of the changes announced by the Health Secretary on 18 December 2011. It has been posted to the Deanery website and I would be helpful if it could be brought to the attention of trainees, either via Induction or other appropriate forum(s). Please feel free to circulate to relevant colleagues as you deem appropriate.

Link: Trainee Raising Concerns Guidance.pdf

KSS Workforce Team

Surgery – coresurgery@kssdeanery.ac.uk              

ACCS – accs@kssdeanery.ac.uk                                                        

CMT – cmt@kssdeanery.ac.uk

Paediatrics – paediatrics@kssdeanery.ac.uk        

Emergency Medicine – EmergencyMedicine@kssdeanery.ac.uk        

ICM – icm@kssdeanery.ac.uk

Anaesthetics -anaesthetics@kssdeanery.ac.uk    

Obstetrics & Gynaeocology – o&g@kssdeanery.ac.uk    

Psychiatry - psychiatry@kssdeanery.ac.uk             

Specialty Training – specialtytraining@kssdeanery.ac.uk           

Medicine Higher – medicinehst@kssdeanery.ac.uk

Specialty Recruitment – specialtyrecruitment@kssdeanery.ac.uk