Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

Director of Medical Education

Dr Alan Vallon

Assistant Director of Medical Education

Dr Sarah Rafferty

Foundation Training Programme Director(s)

Dr Sunil Zachariah (F1)
Dr Hina Gandhi (F2)
Dr Sushil Niraula (F2)

Careers Tutor(s)

Dr Chandni Thorning

Medical Education Manager

TBA

 Leadership Tutor

Miss Jean Arokiasamy

Senior Medical Staffing Officer 

Mrs Diane Mintrim

Foundation Programme Administrator(s)

Miss Victoria Bates

Postgraduate Centre

The Trust provides training opportunities for all staff within the Trust. There is a newly refrubished Doctors' Mess. The Postgraduate Education Centre is currently being refurbished and is available for both internal and external education meetings, seminars and conferences. The Centre holds regular lunchtime teaching and has an excellent Simulation training room. We host Royal College examinations at the Centre during the year. We have a small IT Facility based in the Postgraduate Education Centre for the use of the doctors and medical students. We also have medical students on attachment from Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Imperial College and St George's Medical School.

Accommodation

The accommodation is out sourced.

Shared flat with six bedrooms at present in old units. Shared kitchen (with fridge, freezer, microwave, hob and oven) and bathroom. New/refurbished rooms currently being built will be en-suite or 4 sharing facilities, depending on where vacancies occur.

No bedding provided in the new/refurbished rooms.

Shared kitchen with fridge freezer, microwave, hob and oven.

There is no parking available in the accommodation area. However, if the students are staying in the accommodation on site, they will be able to park in the Trust staff car park. The usual parking charges apply.

All rooms are equipped with internet access.
Contact:
A2 Dominion Group,
Phone: 01737778730
Email: www.a2dominion.co.uk

Social activities

Social events are regularly held by junior doctors organised by the Mess President. There is active participation from junior doctors to make the events successful and supported by both clinicians and management.

Doctors' mess

There is a newly refurbished Doctors' Mess. All junior doctors subscribe into the Mess Fund and the Mess President hold regular social events.

Library facilities

In addition to this library at East Surrey Hospital provides both virtual and physical resources such as electronic and print books, electronic and print journals, medical health databases such as Medline, MRCP I & II and MRCS I & II.

There are 19 PCs in the library, 4 of which provide full internet access, 13 of which provide partial Internet access and access to the Trust's Intranet. Two of the PCs have no Internet access but contain training packages such as computer skills (Excel, Access, Outlook, Powerpoint and Publisher). There is a Knowledge Skills and Systems Librarian who provides training on electronic resources as part of the Foundation Teaching Programme. Ad hoc training sessions are available too. Membership to the Library is via completion of a membership form.

The Library is accessible 24 hours a day following completion of an out of hours form. Staffed opening hours of the Library are 9-5pm (Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays) and 9-7pm (Tuesdays and Wednesdays).

IT facilities

There is a dedicated computer room for trainees to access in the library. All trainees are provided with a hospital email address upon commencement.

Other facilities (Recreational or otherwise)

East Surrey Hospital is situated 2 miles south of Redhill Town Centre. The towns of Redhill and Reigate have excellent shopping, entertainments and sports facilities. Local areas of interest include the North Downs for walking and biking, flying at Redhill Aerodrome, horse racing at nearby Lingfield Park all weather courses, theatres and cinemas in Redhill, Reigate and Crawley.

Local amenities/attractions

Catering on-site
On-site catering is available in the canteen located on the first floor of the East Surrey hospital.

Child Care Facilities
On-site Childcare facilities are available on request via the Trust Intranet System.

Season ticket and cycle purchase loans
The Trust operates a loan scheme to help spread the cost of public transport season tickets or cycle purchase. The loans are interest free and are repaid directly from your pay over ten months for a monthly deduction, or 44 weeks for a weekly deduction. The scheme is open to employees of Surrey & Sussex Healthcare NHS Trusts who are on the Trust payroll and have been employed by the Trust for a minimum continuous period of six months, with a contract that matches or exceeds the repayment period. Applications need to be approved by the Budget Holder in the area that the employee usually works and are processed by the payroll department.

Transport links, Map and Transport Details for East Surrey Hospital, Redhill

There is a fast train service from Redhill to Central London (approximately 30 minutes) and 15 minutes to Gatwick Airport. There is easy access to the coast at Brighton and other parts of Surrey and the Southeast via J8 of the M25 motorway at Reigate.  Local Public transport (buses) will take you to most of the surrounding areas (Dorking, Redhill, Caterham, Crawley, Horley etc.). Redhill station is approximately 10/15 minutes bus journey from East Surrey Hospital.

Parking arrangements

There are limited parking facilities within the grounds of East Surrey Hospital. The Trust has recently introduced parking charges.

Accolades/achievements of the trust

Vision
"Safe High Quality Healthcare which puts our community first".
In April 2011 we opened a new state-of-the-art medical simulation suite to train the next generation of medical staff.

The £14 million development programme has meant that by the end of 2011/2012 we had two new 20 bedded wards, a new day surgery unit, a new endoscopy unit and a new paediatrics outpatients unit. The rebuild of emergency department and a new entrance completed in autumn 2012.

Any additional information

The Trust has recently achieved university status associated with Brighton and Sussx University Hospital NHS Trust.

Induction/shadowing arrangements

The SASFTP consists of 30 F1 and 30 F2 individual foundation programmes. Each individual programme is made of three 4-month placements in specialties offering a wide range of training experiences and opportunities.

All F1 trainees are invited to attend the mandatory 1 week induction programme incorporated with shadowing as per DoH and GMC guideline.

All foundation year 2 trainees are invited to attend the trust full day core induction programme.

Educational and clinical supervision

Both foundation year 1 and foundation year 2 trainees are invited to validation day where they receive up to date information on their specialty placement with named clinical and educational supervisors. The contract of employment equally reflects the appropriate data.

Teaching programme

The training programme directors match teaching programme to the foundation curriculum to ensure that the trainee received appropriate teaching.

The foundation trainees equally organise and deliver medical student teaching on a regular basis.

Tasters

Trainees at both F1 and F2 level are encouraged to take tasters weeks at the contingency of the service.

Simulation

Courses

FY1 Simulation
All FY1s at SASH underwent a full day of simulation training during the year. Scenarios focused on medical and surgical emergencies and required trainees to demonstrate both clinical and non-clinical elements.

FY2 Simulation
All FY2s in the Trust also attended a full day of simulation training during the year. Scenarios again, centred on medical and surgical emergencies, although most included other elements, for example - prioritisation, communication with relatives, breaking bad news and ethical issues.

Other courses

Anaesthetic Simulation
The Anaesthetic Department run teaching every Friday afternoon for their trainees, alternate months an afternoon is dedicated to Simulation or Clinical Skills. Scenarios and Skills sessions are based around the requirements of the 2010 Anaesthetic Curriculum and aim to provide relevance to all grades present. This has included an airway training day that was well attended by the department, allowing them to train on a variety of mannequins and equipment and practice surgical cricothyroidotomy on porcine larynxes.

The Simulation centre also provides practice and assessments of skills for those CT1 trainess completing their Initial Competencies. The annual Regional Anaesthesia day now includes Simulation on LA toxicity.

We are developing a course to run parallel with the Frimley Park Introduction to Anaesthesia course, providing Simulation and Skill based training to enhance learning in theatres.

Trauma Simulation
2.5 days of trauma training have been delivered over the past year. It is hoped these sessions will become more frequent in future.

The structure of the day allows multidisciplinary teams, from different departments and grade to practice trauma team membership and leadership. Based around ATLS principles the day is open to A&E nursing staff, trainees from A&E, surgery and anaesthesia. A number of FY2’s have attended this day.

Scenarios were developed form previous cases the faculty had encountered and further scenarios will be developed through feedback from the monthly Trust Trauma Audit meetings. Faculty has included pre-hospital care physicians and paramedics.

JOT - Joint Obstetric Training
This multidisciplinary course of midwives, obstetricians and anaesthetists is now running every 6 weeks. It involves prioritisation exercises, and simulations. The purchase of a new SimMom mannequin from Laerdal will enhance the course further. The Faculty are keen to develop this further and offer Regional Obstetric Training within KSS.

ICU Simulation
We have delivered the first day of ICU simulation this month and hope to run this at least quarterly to provide induction training for trainees coming to ICU, and nursing staff. Medicine and ICU are developing a joint course for medical registrars based on Medical Emergency Team calls within the Trust.

Foundation doctor forums

Junior doctors forums are held every month chaired by the Chief Executive with management representatives from other departments to hear doctors' voice and address any concerns raised accordingly.

Any additional information

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust was formed on 1st April 1988 following the merger of Crawley, Horsham and East Surrey NHS Trusts. It spends over £150m of taxpayers' money to provide over 400,000 treatments each year across East Surrey and North-West Sussex. Just over 2,500 people work for the Trust.

Our major site is East Surrey hospital and we also proivde a range of services at Crawley, Dorking, Caterham Dene and Horsham hospitals in partnership with the Primary Care trusts that own and manage those sites.

Each year:
- The Trust operates on over 25,000 patients;
- Over 4,100 babies are born at East Surrey Hospital;
- 200,000 outpatient consultations take place; and
- The Trust proivdes 180,000 Diagnostic Imaging examinations.

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust is located in a strategic position and provides emergency services for a large catchment population that is not shared with any other Trust.

To find out more about this Trust, please visit our website at http://www.surreyandsussex.nhs.uk