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Additional information

Welcome to the Gwent and South Powys General Practice (GP) training scheme. This has been running since 1979 as one of the first courses developed, and now one of the largest in Wales, with over 100 trainees.

The site-locations listed above for each post may vary due to organisational changes within the department or host practice. Trainees may be expected to travel to a different location during their placement e.g. to a branch surgery.

Fixed rotations are not available. However, GP Programme Directors take into consideration each trainee’s prior hospital-based experience and endeavour to offer posts that complement this. We want to ensure our GP trainees have a broad base of hospital experience.  This cannot be guaranteed and depends on the hospital rotations available for each recruitment round. Trainees are not able to choose their GP training practice as allocation depends on availability at the time rotations are set.

Our scheme covers a wide geographic area with 40 training practices across the two counties.

Within the scheme there is a choice of five hospitals: the Royal Gwent in Newport; the Grange Hospital in Cwmbran; Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Caerphilly, Nevill Hall Hospital in Abergavenny and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.

The hospital posts all offer an excellent range of experience and there is an active postgraduate training scheme in each of the departments.

The scheme also hosts a number of psychiatry posts in units across Gwent.

 

Half day release for this scheme

Half day release (HDR) is a half day of teaching that all GP trainees have to attend each week. 

  • Venue for this scheme - Postgraduate Centre, Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Gwent
  • HDR day for this scheme - Thursday

Find out more on Gwent and South Powys GP scheme website.

 

Contacts

Training Programme Directors - Dr Julie KeelyDr Sarah Neville and Dr Gareth Jordan

Scheme Administrator - Hannah Vimpany