Evolution of Primary Care Network learning environments

The NHS Long Term Plan (2019) committed to bring General Practice together to work at scale to expand educational capacity, whilst ensuring the quality of learning environments and educators.

In response to this, regions across NHS England Workforce, Education and Training Directorate (WT&E) are scaling up Primary Care learning environments. Moving from a model which approved single GP practices, to approval across a Primary Care Network (PCN) footprint, allowing students / learners to be hosted across multiple settings, creating an integrated pathway for learning.

To understand more about how we are doing this in TVW, view our Demystifying the PCN Learning Environment Approval project webinar:

Alternatively you can view the slide set used in this webinar:

Demystifying the PCN Learning Environment Approval project webinar slides [PDF, size: 983 KB]

Role of the Primary Care School

Our role is to support PCNs to build sustainable educational capacity and ensure quality educational experience for students / learners, at all levels, to positively impact workforce capacity and development in Primary Care.

We work in accordance with the following documents: