Karen Stubbs: Newham scheme aims to attract young GPs to inner-city roles

Karen Stubbs: Newham scheme aims to attract young GPs to inner-city roles

The scheme is designed to support undeveloped GPs into the area and at the same time provide support to existing GPs.

First4Health group project director Karen Stubbs told GP magazine: 'We are very listening carefully on the personnel.


‘We are frustrating to inspire newly qualified undeveloped GPs to occupation in a further, poles apart exemplar of primary attention, and innovating to support GPs who individually may possibly locate it intricate  to instigate several of the current challenges around access and performance targets in the surface of personnel pressures and vacancies.

'We are an inner city region and locate it rigorously to recruit employees - we hold GPs with vacancies and the burden is lofty on existing practices, so we are frustrating to innovate and think differently nearly how we advantage the personnel. Being a superior organisation allows us to make with the purpose of.’

Ms Stubbs spoke to GP to the lead of a federation she is running with support from the RCGP: ‘Federations – the Final Frontier’. The federation takes place on 3 September next to the RCGP H.Q. In Euston Square, and will be chaired by RCGP chair-elect Professor Maureen Baker.

Ms Stubbs alleged: 'We are frustrating to create cute, long-term remunerated posts with the purpose of end fill a prospect to settle into universal practice but and offer variety, an opportunity to occupation across poles apart sites serving poles apart serene groups.

‘GPs obtain experience across a range of practice teams which helps them to consider coming options and experience poles apart organisational cultures.’

First4Health is frustrating to create posts with the purpose of offer training pro specialist roles and opportunities to grow to be GP trainers, with education and study occupation built into the roles.

Ms Stubbs added with the purpose of Newham was a region with a lofty proportion of GPs nearing retirement.

Recruits to the further roles bent by the group would enable it to offer support to long-serving existing practices and help to hang on to big, skilled GPs.

The group is and planning to offer healthiness checks pro GPs, to help 'long-serving GPs look as soon as themselves'. 'We are frustrating to create a better work-life balance,' Ms Stubbs alleged