SuppoRTT Champions

In the North West we have two types of Champions to support you through the process:

School SuppoRTT Champions work with the training programmes, Trust SuppoRTT Champions, Trust Specialty Training Leads (TSTLs) and LTFT Leads to ensure that postgraduate doctors in training and trainers are aware of the RTT process, and ensure that relevant return to training activities (RTT-A), including speciality specific return to training days, are available.

Trust SuppoRTT Champions provide postgraduate doctors in training of all specialties and their supervisors with guidance regarding the relevant policies and available resources.

We now also have Peer SuppoRTT Reps to provide peer support, advice and guidance to those returning to their specialty.

Below is a list of things each role can help you with; the list is not exhaustive but should help guide you towards the support you require.

Trust SuppoRTT Champions
  • Breastfeeding policies
  • Enhanced supervision
  • Identifying ES
  • Induction
  • KIT / SRTT days
  • Rota support
  • Signpost to local training / courses
  • Workplace issues

Trust SuppoRTT Champions Contact List

NB: If you need to contact the Lead Employer please email their Helpdesk: Lead.Employer@sthk.nhs.uk. Please don't contact the Mersey and West Lancashire Trust SuppoRTT Champions unless you are leaving or returning to those hospitals.   

Foundation doctors should contact their Trust SuppoRTT Champion for any support they require.

Many Trust SuppoRTT Champions are also the Trust’s LTFT Champion so will also be able to support you with LTFT issues. If the roles are undertaken by separate people you can find the current list of LTFT Training Champions here.

School SuppoRTT Champions
  • Curriculum queries
  • Day 3 of the NW SuppoRTT Course
  • Mentoring / Coaching
  • RTT Activities
  • Specialty specific issues

School SuppoRTT Champions Contact List

 

Peer SuppoRTT Reps (this list also contains LTFT Reps)
  • Peer support, advice and guidance
School Name Patch Email LTFT/RTT
ACCS Vacant      
Anaesthetics Victoria Courtice NW toricourtice@hotmail.com Both
Grace Salvage NW

gracesalvage@doctors.org.uk

 Both
Dentistry Vacant      
Emergency Medicine        
GP Emily Barham GM, C&L emily.barham@nhs.net  RTT
Jasmine Virk GM jasmine.virk1@nhs.net RTT
Catherine Edwards C&M catherine.edwards16@nhs.net RTT
Mostafa Helmy C&M m.helmy@nhs.net RTT
Samar Ibrahim C&M Samar.nasr71@yahoo.com RTT
Babu Karavadra C&M b.karavadra@nhs.net RTT
Susan Travers C&M suetravers@yahoo.co.uk RTT
ICM Gareth Allen NW gareth.allen@doctors.org.uk

LTFT
Medicine Sophie Ludlam NW sophie.ludlam@doctors.org.uk RTT
O&G Alison Thompson NW a.c.thompson@doctors.org.uk Both
Premalatha Ulaganathan NW drupremalatha@yahoo.co.uk Both
Ophthalmology Vacant      
Paediatrics Violet Swain C&M nwltftrep@gmail.com LTFT
Hannah Mechie GM, C&L ltftrep.manchester@gmail.com LTFT
Eve Roberts C&M everoberts@doctors.org.uk RTT
Anastasia Kirina NW anastasiakir@hotmail.com RTT
Pathology Vacant      
Psychiatry Eleanor Swift NW eswift1@nhs.net LTFT
Blessing Ogundipe   b.ogundipe1@nhs.net RTT
Madiyyah Hussain   madiyyah.hussain@outlook.com RTT
Public Health Rebecca Kane NW rkane8@icloud.com LTFT
Gemma Jones NW gemma.jones@cumberland.gov.uk LTFT
Radiology Josh Taylor CM joshuataylor93@doctors.org.uk LTFT
Zoe Winston GM, C&L z.g.winston@doctors.org.uk LTFT
Surgery Vacant      

 

Page updated 16th April 2025