Role of the Trainer: Promoting, supporting and enabling training excellence

Health Education Englands Better Training Better Care programme and the General Medical Council have been working in partnership to deliver a number of projects around the value of the trainer in the NHS.We know that high quality training is essential for safe, high quality patient care. Even during times of resource constraint, service reconfiguration and organisational change, working together, we must ensure that education and training is valued, protected and improved.The GMC has provided a regulatory structure for safe, effective medical education, which includes standards for medical trainers, called ;Recognising and Approving Trainers: The Implementation Plan;. Postgraduate deans and medical schools are setting up arrangements to develop and validate their trainers.Health Education England has commissioned guidance on how best to recognise and develop trainers and training environments. With the support of the GMC, HEE has implemented the following initiatives which have a UK wide focus.The Academy of Medical Educators (AoME) has developed The Essential User Guide to Recognition of Training in Secondary Care, which is ultimately the 'how-to' guide for implementing the GMC's ;Recognising and Approving Trainers: The Implementation Plan; framework. NACT UK has developed their Faculty Guide which looks at the impact of the workplace environment and the role of the faculty on the success of training and education, and therefore patient care, within the NHS.The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management has emphasised the need for cultural commitment so that training is properly valued throughout the organisations providing healthcare and training, starting with the Boards and Chief Executives. FMLM also believes that leadership and management development is integral to the training of good doctors and thereby the delivery of high quality healthcare.Read more on the Health Education England website