The Health Equity Focused Training programme offers GP PG DiTs who are interested in a career in Deep End GP and/or inclusion health, an enhanced training programme with a focus on health equity, hoping to create the Deep End workforce and leadership of the future. PG DiTs select and are allocated to HEFT rotations during GP recruitment preferencing. They complete three years of GP training, alongside colleagues who are not undertaking HEFT, meeting all standard curriculum requirements. Where possible, the posts that make up their training programme are in relevant practices and specialties such as:
Public health
Emergency medicine
Psychiatry
Substance misuse
Prisons
Leadership
Education
Academic
Mental Health
Research
Psychiatry
Inclusion health (homelessness, migrant health, sex workers, Gypsies and Travellers)
Trainees are periodically released from normal training to attend the online national education programme and annual conference. Where possible, they are part of local communities of practice with other PG DiTs undertaking HEFT. Where possible they receive near-peer support from local deprivation/trailblazer fellows and/or PCN health inequalities leads. It is recognised that many PG DiTs are already undertaking suitable rotations in areas of deprivation, in which case the value added of the programme is the national sessions and any local community of practice support.