Welcome to the East of England Foundation Programme!

Thank you for looking at our web pages. Hopefully the information is clear, and you can find answers for any of your queries that are locally based!

For national FAQ, the UKFPO Rough Guide and Curriculum should answer most of your questions. You can also refer to the GMC website for guidance on registration, the UKFPO website or in their FAQ section for information on national policy and the medical careers website for careers advice. If you have questions that are specific to your personal situation and which are not answered on this page, they may be in  our trainee hub pages, or then you should ask your FTPD in the first instance.

We tend to use 'deanery' and HEE EoE slightly interchangeably. These pages are specific to HEE EoE and our two foundation schools: Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire  (EBH) and the East Anglia Foundation Schools (EAFS).

 

Meet the team! 

East of England Foundation School Director:

Dr Helen Johnson

As the Foundation School Director for both Foundation Schools in the East of England, I would like to welcome you to our site. I hope this is informative, and I look forward to supporting you as one of our Foundation trainees.

As our core values, we focus on training our doctors for their future within the NHS, providing rotations that are balanced and mapped against the curriculum. Our busy hospitals provide you with a broad experience as well as making sure that you have the opportunity to look at sub-specialities. We pay special attention to our teaching and training, with communication and personal skills training as well as a high class simulation training programme. We are also very keen to provide personal pastoral support, whether this be the opportunity for less than full time training, our mentoring and support programmes our just an ear when things seem difficult.

We aim to improve our foundation experience year on year, listening to your voices and being responsive to them.

One of my passions in foundation is around making foundation inclusive. We are strong supporters of those requiring to be LTFT or have a need for more considered rotations. In this I have been proud to sit on the GMC working part for the welcomed and valued guidance. We have trialed this with our local medical schools, aiming that doctors requiring workplace adjustments should have this support discussion earlier at medical school and meet and liaise with us, such that they are not disadvantaged. I am sitting on a similar committee with the foundation review.

I am working with HEE EoE to develop a connected approach between educational theory and practice, and also increasing the footprint of educational posts within foundation. We now have 4 educational fellows of ST3 and above. I am always happy for our foundation doctors to get involved.

Click here for more information on our taught programme: https://heeoe.hee.nhs.uk/foundation/training-programme-foundation/taught-programmestudy-leave

 

Click here for the EAFS hospital contact list. (Please note that due to merging hospitals, Colchester is now advertised in EAFS and Bedford in EBHFS)

 

HEE EoE is headed up by our Dean, Professor Bill Irish, supported by the Deputy Deans. The Deputy particularly supporting Secondary Care and therefore Foundation, is Dr Ian Barton.

We liaise with the national group, other schools and supports within the deanery, the foundation training programme directors and medical education managers to set policy and guidance for foundation. We are part of various national groups looking to set the shape of training and best practice. We support trainees with difficulties, oversee recruitment and assessment, quality assurance and the education and training within trusts, and look to provide innovation and improve the benefit of training in foundation for you. We make the call on difficult decisions.

We have a number of team members from administration, recruitment, assessment, programmes and faculty support who work tirelessly to help keep the backbone function of Foundation, as well as the other schools, running smoothly. Their contacts are below. The Programme Management Team answer all the queries around rotations and programmes, and should be notified of sickness, maternity and all LTFT, TOFP and IFST requests. The Assessment Team answer all the queries around ARCP, and the Faculty Support Team are involved with the Hub Events, wider programme issues and trainee representatives.

Below is a photo of our recruitment and programmes lead celebrating in July, having filled all the posts! 

 

The wider team

We have a wider 'core central foundation team' which includes our simulation  FTPD Dr Charleen Liu, the HEE Simulation Associate Dean Dr Georgia Winnett, our GP liaison Dr P Wright, our Associate Dean for careers and out of programme and support Dr Francesca Crawley, the overseas FTPD Dr R Makker and the Hub FTPD Dr Zilley Khan. They have areas of expertise that we draw on to improve and support your foundation experience.

Then, the interface between the deanery and you is your local trust education team. This is led in foundation by your FTPD and the Medical Education Manager [MEM]. They organise local teaching and training, review their local rotations and troubleshoot for you, as well as liaise with your Education and Clinical Supervisors. We meet them at central teaching, training and business meetings, as well as when we drop in on trusts. They look at our ideas and aspirations and help hone them into workable advances for you.

    

 

What do we do?

We have three key themes we focus on each year: 

1. The first of our three key themes for foundation training in the East of England is Excellence in Education. We are aspiring to create a focussed, delivered educational programme of 60 mandatory hours per year for each trainee that covers the curriculum and is also inspiring. Look at our education page to find out more.
2. We wish for trustworthy training rotations for our foundation doctors. We review the GMC survey and information we get from our Foundation training programme directors [ FTPD] , visits and trainee reps to provide suitable balanced rotations and provide quality training. Our hospitals can sometimes be hard pressed, and in those instances we work with them to provide solutions that maintain training and education. We aren't perfect, but we are aspiring to be better. Sometimes the best, and most innovative, solutions come from trainees themselves and we can help you with implementation. Our FTPD in each trust are there for your assistance.
3. Our final strand is in personalising support. Becoming a doctor can be tough, and we want to do everything we can to help this go smoothly. We have an F2 to F1 mentorship programme, to support that step from medical student to doctor; resilience training workshops, careers and professional workshops. We are supportive of those requiring Less than Full Time Training [LTFTT] and if required time out of training or Inter-Foundation school transfers. We  also have an excellent professional support unit for those that need a little more. The deanery trainee wellbeing hub describes many of the opportunities for you. We are looking to see what else would be helpful and useful. All ideas are considered! Either talk to your foundation representatives or FTPD about taking forwards good ideas.

 

 

Trainee Representatives

Trainee representation is a key element in the development and monitoring of the Foundation Programme and representatives play a valuable role in providing feedback and helping shape new initiatives. We have trainee reps from across the schools and from both academic and standard training programmes. Please talk to them, feedback and give ideas through them. They are given advance access to guidelines in draft to consider the trainee view.

As a trainee representative, you are mandated to attend FDAB  - the Foundation Doctors Advisory Board - which develops policies and feeds back nationally, as well as local meetings with the FSD.

EAFS Trainee Reps:

Name	Role	Trust	Email
Chie Katsura	F1 Representative	Colchester	chie.katsura@nhs.net
Daniel Fernando	F1 Representative	Addenbrookes	daniel.fernando.dif@gmail.com
Shirley Yadhu	F1 Diversity Representative	Peterborough	yadu.shirley@gmail.com
Tanya Ta	F1 Academic Representative	NNUH	tanya.ta@nnuh.nhs.uk
Danyal Khan	F2 - Academic Representative	QEHKL	dzkhan94@gmail.com
Martin Hamilton-Flack	F2 - Academic Representative	Ipswich Hospital	martin@hamiltonflack.me.uk
Sarah Zouggari	F2 Representative	Bedford Hospital	sarah.zouggari@doctors.org.uk
Harry Holkham	F2 Representative	West Suffolk Hospital	h.holkham@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EBH Trainee Reps:

Name	Role	Trust	Email
Ben Schapira	F1 Representative	Watford	ben.schapira@hotmail.com
Albert Koomsom	F1 Representative	PAH	albert.koomson2@nhs.net
Omowumi Daniella  Ashaju	F1 Diversity Representative	Mid Essex	odashaju@doctors.org.uk
Mae-Yen Tan	F1 Academic Representative	E&N Herts	Mae.tan@nhs.net
Mala Mawkin	F2 Academic Representative	Southend	mala.mawkin@southend.nhs.uk
Charlotte Perry	F2 Representative	E&N Herts	charlotte.perry17@nhs.net
Ravina Bhanot	F2 Representative	BTUH	ravina.bhanot@bedfordhospital.nhs.uk

 

Please see the Trainee Representative Role document for further information. Applications for the 2020-21 training year are now closed.