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Professional Education & Development (PED) Course 2025

Target Audience/Eligibility Criteria

PED is aimed at GPs in Health Education England (HEE) North West Area who have a regular (non-locum) position at a practice be it as a partner or salaried.

Course Aim

This course aims to help you achieve your goals and improve your life as you ride the roller-coaster of general practice. The course will motivate you and develop your resilience and leadership skills. We will help you improve your management and leadership skills and support your learning and preparation for revalidation. It gives time to reflect on practice, plan for the future and develop leadership skills within a supportive peer group. The course is accredited at Masters Level. Feedback from the course highlights how helpful it is in helping GPs develop resilience to cope with the current stresses of practice.

Successful completion of the PED course and the academic assigns earns an award of a Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Practice, Management and Education (CPME) from the University of Centarl Lancashire (UCLan). There is a;os a variety of additional modules allowing flexible progression to a Postgraduate Diploma or MSc. Theses include the optional leadership module that is linked to PED.

Course Structure

The course is based around group work, with some individual work between sessions. Groups are carefully selected so that you will be with GPs of comparable experience. It is particularly useful for relatively new GPs as well as those who have an educational or leadership role or are interesting in developing these areas, or for GPs new to practice. Whether you have two or twenty two years experience in general practice, we have something to offer.

The tutors are practising GPs with an interest in education and the course is supported with a handbook and a SharePoint site with background reading. Written work is around personal education planning, practice development planning and critical incident analysis.

Course Duration

PED is usually spread over two years with three three-day residential modules in the Lake District (if this is not possible because of Covid, there will be a two-day virtual module and an extra study day instead).

Trainer/Facilitator

HEE, UCLan and RCGP NW Faculty

Date/Time/Venue

There are three residential modules at the Castle Green Hotel in Kendal each lasting three days:

  • First Residential – Monday 1st – Wednesday 3rd October 2025
  • Second Residential – Wednesday 10th – Friday 12th June 2026
  • Third Residential –  Wednesday 19th – Friday 21st May 2027

Residential – Lasting three days

Study Days

Held between the first and second residential modules there are three study days held roughly every six weeks on a Thursday via Zoom or at a central location. The study days and examples of topics:

  • Thursday 4th December 2025 – Time management and delegation
  • Thursday 15th January 2026 – Primary Care workforce & finance, management of change
  • Thursday 5th March 2026 – Resilience and assertiveness

On the study days time is made for written support and topics covered may change depending on need.

Cost

PED educational costs are supported by HEE and participants are asked to contribute £530 (non-refundable) for attendance at the course, paid in two instalments of £265. There is a further contribution for the residential costs, paid on departure at the hotel. This may vary as you move through the course but will initially be £154 per night. There are additional fees for UCLan registration and for the optional leadership module.

The total cost for PED with an award of a PG Cert in Clinical Practice, Management and Education and including accommodation is therefore only a fraction over £1800 over the three years of the course.

Booking Process/Additional Information

  • Places are limited, so if you wish to be considered for a place, please complete the short application form, and submit ahead of the deadline of 12 noon, Tuesday 15th July 2025. If the hyperlink does not work, please copy and paste the URL into your browser: https://forms.office.com/e/JbUsZdWFjZ. We are sorry it is not possible to consider any applications which are submitted after this date.