LEP Visits
Setting Standards: LEP Visits
GMC has defined a framework for the quality assurance of training, which is available here.
KSS Deanery complies with and implements this Framework within the KSS region. A KSS Deanery visiting team will visit all core specialties and selected higher specialties in each LEP in a three-year cycle. The visits will take place over one day. Team members will be expected to be familiar with the following documentation: Programme Curriculum KSS Graduate Education & Assessment Regulations (GEAR) Local Academic Board Terms of Reference Local Faculty Group Terms of Reference Gold Guide School Website PMETB Survey Data The visiting team will review the documentation and note any areas of concern or good practice on the pro forma. The LEP will be asked to complete a self assessment using the same pro forma, and return it to the KSS Deanery Quality Manager 10 days before the visit. The documentary evidence will be triangulated using interviews with trainees and those delivering and facilitating the training. Brief verbal feedback will be given to the Trust CEO, DME and other relevant staff at the end of the day. Any areas requiring an immediate response will be communicated to the Trust CEO and DME (and KSS Dean Director if appropriate) by the Lead Visitor via e-mail by the following day. Written feedback will be provided one week after the visit. The outcome of the process will be to deliver a report highlighting examples of good practice and the sharing of that, and mandatory and desirable developmental areas with time-limited action points. This will be against required GMC domains. The subsequent response to this report will be delivered by the LFG and LAB for consideration by the KSS Deanery Quality Management Steering Group. The report will also be available to GMC when required for their Quality Assurance process. External adviser involvement in visits to deaneries can be complex as there is no common model of visiting across them. However, there are normally three types of deanery-led visiting: 1. routine monitoring visits to LEPs or programmes 2. visits undertaken to identify if there is a serious issue 3. visits undertaken where there is an establishedserious issue impacting on training GMC does not expect that deaneries will always use external advice in types 1 and 2, but may wish to at the discretion of the Postgraduate Dean. Deaneries should always utilise external input for type 3. External advisers should be involved in a sampling of routine visits in order that they can provide input into processes in the context of the specialty, as well as provide specific specialty advice. If an external adviser identifies a serious issue (for example pertaining to patient safety), this should promptly be referred to the Postgraduate Dean outside of the normal reporting mechanisms.