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www.gmc-uk.org/nts
Agenda
 Why the survey matters
 NTS 2014: what the survey told us last year
 Survey content
 Confidentiality
 How to take part
Why the survey matters
Your views count
The survey is your opportunity to help improve the quality
of postgraduate and foundation training across the UK.
 It is an important part of the work the GMC does to monitor the
quality of medical education and training in the UK.
 Views you have about your training post will help deaneries,
local education and training boards (LETBs), trusts, boards,
hospitals, practices, and other training providers, identify areas
of good practice and areas that need improvement within their
patch.
The results make a difference
Survey results do make a difference to the quality of
training posts.
 The results are used by deaneries, local education and training
boards (LETBs) and other training providers.
 They analyse the results carefully and make improvements
where required.
The results make a difference
You can find detailed case studies of how survey results have
influenced improvements at www.gmc-uk.org/nts including:
 The introduction of structured joint training sessions between
acute medicine and emergency medicine trainees at a particular
hospital, after survey results showed their training was poor.
 An emergency medicine department showed poor overall
results, which triggered a GMC visit. Improvements included
hiring more permanent consultants, better rota arrangements
and changes to the departmental induction.
 At an intensive care unit, where bullying and undermining had
been reported, mandatory leadership training has been
introduced for consultants to help improve their approach to
giving feedback.
NTS 2014: what the survey
told us last year
What the survey told us last year
Last year, 98.2% of doctors in training responded to the
survey.
 81.8% rated the quality of experience in their current post as
good or excellent. Up by 0.1% on 2013.
 80.3% of trainees feel their post will be very useful or useful
for their future career. Up by 1% on 2013.
 86.7% said they always knew their who their clinical
supervisor was and that they were easily accessible.
Up from 0.8% on 2013.
Bullying and undermining
In 2014, the GMC looked at undermining and published
a report on the issue.
 8% of respondents reported being victims of bullying and
harassment in their training programme.
 However, evidence suggests there is a reluctance to speak out
about bullying and undermining – both from fear of reprisals
and from lack of faith that anything will be done. Only 1% of
respondents made a free text comment to us about bullying
and undermining
From the GMC’s report: National training survey 2014: Undermining
Bullying and undermining
This year, the GMC are publishing question responses that
look at whether training environments are supporting
doctors in training:
 These will report on supportiveness of environments as a
whole, rather than on bullying or undermining incidents
 The reporting tool will show environments considered to be
particularly supportive as well as unsupportive
 We are also publishing a report about our visits to training
providers to investigate undermining
Read our report at www.gmc-uk.org/nts.
Patient safety
In 2014, the GMC also published a report on patient safety
concerns.
 85.0% of doctors in training who indicated a patient safety
concern in this year’s survey told us that these concerns were
being addressed locally.
 A further 5,863 said they did have a concern, but
it had been addressed.
 However, our data also suggest that in some instances, local
systems don’t deal adequately with patient safety issues.
Patient safety
 This year we will test new questions on reporting systems.
Training environments must have systems for doctors in
training to immediately report any concerns they have about
patient safety. Our test questions will ask respondents how
effective these systems are.
 Read the report at www.gmc-uk.org/nts.
Survey content
What the survey asks you
 Generic training questions
(multi-choice)
General, questions about your training post.
 Programme/specialty specific questions (multi-choice)
Questions about your training programme (eg Foundation
Programme or Cardiology) including academic questions if you
are an academic trainee.
 Bullying and undermining
(free text)
If you have a concern about bullying and/or undermining, you
can report it here.
 Patient safety
(free text)
If you have a concern about patient safety, you can report it
here.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality
Your answers to multi-choice questions on training are
confidential.
 They will only be reported after being aggregated.
 To protect your identity, the GMC only publishes results on its
website where three or more trainees have contributed
responses.
Confidentiality
Your free text responses are treated differently.
 The GMC will share your verbatim comments with your
deanery/LETB, who in turn may share them with your
employer/training provider.
 The GMC, your deanery/LETB, and your employer/training
provider all have a duty to ensure any concerns raised are
properly responded to, which may include a local investigation.
For more information about this, please read the confidentiality
page at www.gmc-uk.org/nts
How to take part
How to take part
 Don’t wait for an invitation.
 Log on to GMC Online after 24 March 2015.
 Your survey will be waiting for you to complete – if it is not
there, contact your deanery/LETB survey team.
 The GMC and your deanery/LETB will send you reminder emails
and text messages during the survey period.
 You must complete your survey submission by midday on 6
May 2015.
Who takes part
If you hold a GMC-approved training post, you must
complete the survey.
This includes:
 Foundation trainees
 Core trainees
 Higher specialty training, including SpR and GP trainees
 FTSTA trainees, LAT trainees
 Military trainees
 Trainees in Clinical Lecturer and Academic Clinical Fellowship
posts
Who takes part (2)
If you hold a GMC-approved training post, you must
complete the survey.
This includes:
 Out of programme training (OOPT) on an approved programme
in the UK
 Post-CCT training towards a sub-specialty
 Trainees working for non-NHS organisations, e.g. occupational
medicine, palliative medicine and pharmaceutical medicine
 Non-medical public health trainees*.
*Non medical public health trainees will not access the survey via
GMC Online. They will be invited to take part by their faculty.
Not taking part
If you are not in a GMC-approved training post in the UK on
24 March, you should not take the survey.
This includes doctors:
 On maternity leave on 24 March
 On out of programme training (OOPT) not in an approved
programme
 On out of programme research (OOPR)
 On out of programme career breaks (OOPC)
 In medical training initiative (MTI) posts
 In locum appointment for service (LAS) posts
 Who have been awarded their CCT, but are in their period of
grace.
Completion code
Once you have completed the survey, you should take a note of
your completion code, which appears on the final screen.
This will be your proof that you’ve completed it.
Any time after the survey, you’ll be able to log back into GMC
Online and look up your code in the My Surveys tab.
Key dates
 ASAP:
Ensure you have access to your GMC Online account
 24 March:
The launch date for the survey
 24 March – 6 May:
Log on to GMC Online to take part in the survey
 6 May:
Survey closes
Key dates
 June:
Online reporting tool launched. This allows for in depth
exploration of the results as they relate to specific deaneries /
local education and training boards and trusts.
 From the autumn:
National key findings report published. This will explore the
main findings from the survey, how we have used survey
results to make improvements to training and how the survey
fits into our work to quality assure training.
Further information
The national training survey is developed and delivered in
collaboration with local postgraduate deans and medical
royal colleges and faculties.
 For additional information please visit the survey website:
www.gmc-uk.org/nts.
 If you have any comments or queries please contact
[email protected].