Glamorgan Valleys

Additional information

The Glamorgan Valleys General Practice (GP) training scheme is set in the beautiful and scenic South Wales Valleys.

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.

The scheme has hospital posts in three main hospital sites (Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Prince Charles Hospital and Princess of Wales hospital). It also has multiple general practice training sites across the geographical area.

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, Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Ynysmaerdy, Llantrisant
• HDR day for this scheme - Tuesday with ST1’s and ST2’s invited to the morning session and ST3’s invited for the afternoon.

Contacts 

Training programme director contact details can be found here - GP relevant contact details - HEIW (nhs.wales)

Scheme Administrator - Lucy Arnold