Annual School Reports
Setting Standards: Annual School Reports
Each specialty school must produce an annual report. KSS Deanery provides a template for the reports. The purpose of the annual specialty report is:
- to ensure that GMC standards for the delivery of postgraduate medical education are being met;
- toimprove the quality of education and training;
- to check and improve the quality of KSS Deanery quality management;
- to identify common issues and good practice across the specialities.
There are sections in which each school can report on and analyse significant school achievements, trainee numbers and the attrition rate, ARCP outcomes, recruitment to the specialty and the annual GMC trainee survey. The most detailed and important section is a self assessment against each of the nine domains within the GMC Generic Standards for Training. The annual school report informs the national annual specialty reports to the GMC. Each Specialty School report is agreed and approved by the Quality Management Steering Group prior to submission to the respective Royal Colleges.
The annual report should include a summary of the external advice received for that year and the responses/actions taken to that advice. The Royal Colleges provide an annual specialty report (ASR) on each of their relevant specialties to GMC. It is expected that this report will be formulated from intelligence, including reports from Royal College-organised external advisers, as well as the reports from HoS. The annual school reports must be shared with the Royal Colleges and LFGs in order to ensure transparent and effective reporting.