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NW SuppoRTT Course

Course OverviewEligibilityHow to bookDay 1 & 2 DatesDay 3 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 Hospitals 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,
PM

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

Booking Form

Course Dates

Cohort Day 1 (online) Day 2s (face to face)  
5 13th November 2025 18th November 2025 Aintree
19th November 2025 Preston
20th November 2025 Preston
5 December 2025 St Helens
6 16th January 2026 21st January 2026 Preston
22nd 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)

19th January 2026 - Salford Royal Simulation Suite

15th April 2026 - Salford Royal Simulation Suite

17th June 2026 - Salford Royal Simulation Suite

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

Emergency Medicine

Dates TBC - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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

General Practice

Next Date TBC - Online via Microsoft Teams

To register please click here

Enquiries: england.supportt.nw@nhs.net

Medicine (flyer)

Tuesday 3rd February 2026 - Education and Research Centre (ERC), Wythenshawe Hospital

Please register by 2nd January 2026 by emailing both

elizabethjones5@nhs.net and sophie.ludlam@mft.nhs.uk

O&G (flyer)

22nd January 2026 - Education Centre, Chorley Disctrict Hospital.

To book your place, please register using this form: https://healthacademy.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/supporrtcourseapplic...

Enquiries: SuppoRTT@lthtr.nhs.uk

Oncology

Thursday 26th March 2026 – 9am-4pm (Virtual) - flyer 26/03/26

To book your place, please register using this form: https://forms.office.com/e/YuL1JiQedW

For enquiries contact: the-christie.pgugeducation@nhs.net

Paediatrics (flyer)

Tuesday 2nd December 2025 (Virtual)

Monday 8th December 2025 at Ward A4, Halton Hospital WA7 2DA (Face to Face)

To book your place, please register using this form: https://forms.office.com/e/fnmjQzbhEW

For enquiries email: laura.wade16@nhs.net or jayaprakash.rajaram@mbht.nhs.uk

Psychiatry (flyer)

14th January 2026 - Kingfisher Meeting Room, 1st Floor, Hollins Park Hospital, Hollins Lane, Winwick, Warrington, WA2 8WA

To book your place, please register using this form: Booking form

For enquiries please email: england.corepsychcourse@nhs.net

Surgery: Trauma and Orthopaedics (flyer)

Date TBC

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


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