NW SuppoRTT Course

Course Overview Eligibility How to book Course Dates

Course Overview

The NW SuppoRTT Course consists of 3 days. The first two days are generic, and organised centrally for the region by Lancashire Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, and the third day is a specialty specific day which is co-ordinated by your School SuppoRTT Champion. The NW SuppoRTT Course is free of charge. If you need to apply for a KIT/SPLIT or SRTT day and/or travel expenses to attend please visit our Return to Training Activities (RTT-A) page

Day 1 Overview (delivered virtually over Zoom) More detailed information about Day 1 can be found here.

Session 1         
  • General issues faced by returners, and particular issues of the group, plus signposting to useful resources
  • The SuppoRTT process
  • LTFT training
Session 2 Communication Skills including debriefing, critical language, and assertive language with the PACE technique for raising concerns in a clinical environment. 
Session 3 Decision Making
Session 4 In this interactive session we will explore recent findings from neuroscience that help us to understand more about our stress responses and explore ways to manage change in a resourceful way.

Day 2 Overview (delivered at a choice of simulation centres in Aintree, Preston and St Helens) More detailed information about Day 2 can be found here.

*Day 2 is not recommended for those who are returning to non-patient facing specialties.

AM                  

Communication Skills

  • Small group work with tailored scenarios ranging from interactions that you would find in the community or out-patient clinic to breaking bad news to relatives.
  • Aided by Communincation Skills Tutors and simulated patient actors 

Resus Skills 

  • refresh your knowledge of adult and paediatric (if appropriate) basic life support,
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Scenarios delivered by simulation team

  • acute medical and surgical emergencies that you might encounter in the community, ward or other hospital settings, tailored to your work environment
  • facilitated debrief

Day 3 is organised by your School SuppoRTT Champion and is designed to update and refresh specialty specific skills and knowledge. You can discover more in the flyers for each day in the Day 3 dates table below.

Eligibility

All doctors in training who have been out of training for a period of 3 months or more are eligible to apply for the NW SuppoRTT Course.

If you have been out of training for less than 3 months please contact the team at Lancashire Teaching NHS Foundation Trust, who manage the course for NHSE, at SuppoRTT@lthtr.nhs.uk to discuss your requirements prior to applying. 

How to book

To book your place please click here

Course Dates

Cohort Day 1 (online) Day 2s (face-to-face)
1 23rd April 2025 9th May 2025 Preston
13th May 2025 Aintree
15th May 2025 Aintree
2 2nd June 2025 6th June 2025 Preston
11th June 2025 Preston
20th June 2025 St Helens
23rd June 2025 Aintree
3 17th July 2025 21st July 2025 Preston
24th July 2025 St Helens
25th July 2025 Aintree
28th July 2025 St Helens
4 3rd September 2025 9th September 2025 St Helens
11th September 2025 Preston
16th September 2025 Aintree
19th September 2025 Aintree
22nd September 2025 St Helens
5 13th November 2025 18th November 2025 Aintree
19th November 2025 Preston
20th November 2025 Preston
5th December 2025 St Helens
6 16th January 2026 21st January 2026 Preston
23rd January 2026 Aintree
23rd January 2026 St Helens
7 5th March 2026 11th March 2026 Preston
12th March 2026 Aintree
20th March 2026 St Helens
30th March 2026 St Helens

Day 3

Anaesthetics (flyer)

23rd June 2025

1st October 2025

To register please contact Dr Amy Hobbs Amy.Hobbs@boltonft.nhs.uk

Emergency Medicine

Spring 2025 (Date TBC) Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

To register please contact Annemarie.Brown@liverpoolft.nhs.uk

General Practice

Tuesday 13th May 2025 - Online via Microsoft Teams

Tuesday 16th September 2025 - Online via Microsoft Teams

To register please click here.

Enquiries: england.supportt.nw@nhs.net

O&G (flyer)

Dates TBC Education Centre, Chorley Disctrict Hospital.

Enquiries: SuppoRTT@lthtr.nhs.uk

Oncology (flyer) Dates TBC
Paediatrics (flyer)

3rd June 2025 (Virtual)

To book your place please email: Jackie.Kennedy@mft.nhs.uk

For enquiries email: Jamie-anne.gilmour@nhs.net

Psychiatry (flyer)

Date TBC

For enquiries or to book your place please email: Louise.Calvert@lscft.nhs.uk

Surgery: Trauma & Orthopaedics (flyer)

Date TBC

For enquiries or to book your place please email: Danielle.Wharton@sthk.nhs.uk


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