Trainer Practices and Training

Details

The Postgraduate GP School provides GPST Programmes across Cheshire & Merseyside in eight locality Programmes as summarised in the table below.
Mersey Deanery work with a large number of practices throughout Merseyside and Cheshire. Please use the menu on the left to access a list of practices by area.

Wirral

There will be up to 15 places in this location. Wirral is a peninsula across the Mersey from Liverpool and has a diverse population. The Wirral itself offers some outstanding areas of beauty and lots of opportunities for leisure pursuits as well as good links to Wales, Manchester, Liverpool and the Lakes for when you want to get away from it all for a quick break. The hospital posts are provided at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, which includes Arrowe Park Hospital the flagship hospital located in the heart of the peninsula. There, as well as the full range of 'acute' health services for adults and children, there is an Accident & Emergency (A&E) unit, a Maternity Unit and a Walk-In Centre. It serves a population of circa 250,000 people.

Training Programme Director (TPD):

• Dr Michael Burke ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Chester

There will be up to 14 places in this location. Chester is a beautiful walled roman city and the rotation is delivered through the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust which is a 580 bed, single site General Hospital located on the outskirts of the city. It provides a range of medical services to more than 400,000 patients per year from an area covering Western Cheshire, Ellesmere Port, Neston and North Wales.

Training Programme Director (TPD):

• Dr Suzanne Macdonald ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Dr Robin Gleek ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Liverpool

There will be up to 58 places across the city with an additional 14 tracks available across the Merseyside and Cheshire footprint. The city has major teaching hospitals, specialist tertiary trusts and two large universities. Mersey Deanery in conjunction with the Liverpool Medical Institute runs many courses for trainees; including Minor Surgery and MRCGP preparation. Many of our Course Organisers are current or former examiners. All ST1+2s attend monthly ‘GP’ focused seminars and ST3s have a weekly half day release scheme. The scheme offers a number of general practice based innovative posts. Liverpool is built on an illustrious 800 year heritage and is renowned for its sport, music, architecture and its wealth of culture. The City has several theatres and multiple bars; restaurants and nightclubs. European City of culture 2008, it has excellent social and sporting activities boasting two Premiership football teams. The ‘Grand National’ is walking distance from Aintree hospital.
There is one programme available on the Isle of Man for August 2013 intake.

Training Programme Directors (TPD):

• Dr Tobias Keyser ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Dr D Noland ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Dr H McKendrick ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

St Helens & Knowsley

There will be up to 15 places in this location. The hospital posts are provided by St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals who provide a full range of patient services to the local communities of St Helens, Knowsley, parts of Halton and Liverpool and extending to the whole of Cheshire, Merseyside, North Wales and the Isle of Man with the Regional Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit. They have just opened the fantastic new St Helens Hospital and the new Whiston Hospital was opened in 2010. The scheme includes palliative medicine opportunities.

Training Programme Director (TPD):

Dr Peter Johnson ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Sefton (Southport and Ormskirk)

There will be up to 10 places in this location. The hospital posts are mainly provided by Southport and Ormskirk Hospital Trust which consists of 2 large district general hospitals. Sefton is a coastal borough with a population of 272,000 people. It is situated in the northern part of the Liverpool City Region with which it shares close economic, social and cultural links. It has a number of famous features which include the classic resort of Southport, Aintree Racecourse the home of the Grand National and Anthony Gormley’s “Another Place” on Crosby Beach. The scheme offers palliative care as an option.

Training Programme Director:

• Dr Peter Goldstein ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Macclesfield

There will be up to 15 places in this location. It is a semi-rural area south of Manchester. The rotation is delivered through the East Cheshire NHS Trust, which provides services for a population of circa 200,000 people at Macclesfield, Congleton and Knutsford sites, as well as at Poynton, Wilmslow and Handforth clinics and most recently alongside Primary Care colleagues at the Waters Green 'super' surgery.

Training Programme Director (TPD):

• Dr Debbie Maxwell ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Dr Nichola Russell ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

North Cheshire (Warrington & Runcorn)

There will be up to 13 places in this location. The hospital posts are provided through the Warrington and Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at Warrington Hospital and Halton General Hospital in the North West of England. They provide services across the towns of Warrington, Runcorn (where Halton General Hospital is based), Widnes and the surrounding areas. They serve a population of 300,000.

Training Programme Director (TPD):

• Contact: Dr Malcolm Tyrer ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )

Mid Cheshire (Crewe)

There will be up to 16 places in this location. The hospital posts are provided by the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital, and Crewe and Victoria Infirmary, Northwich. They were established as an NHS trust in April 1991 and now employ over 3,500 staff. They provide a comprehensive range of acute, maternity and child health services to a population of 280,000 living in the areas of Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich, and Vale Royal.

Training Programme Director (TPD):

• Dr Sanjiv Shirdhar (sanjiv.shridhar@ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
• Dr Debbie Ford ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )