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The Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (or NATH as we like to be called) is designed to meet the educational needs of the primary and community care workforce, and bring together NHS organisations, community providers and local authorities.
09/01/2026
Temporomandibular Dysfunction (TMD) in Primary Care, Learn How to Assess & Manage Effectively - Only limited spaces left!
Join Desi Gillespie for a focused, practical session on recognising and managing Temporomandibular Dysfunction in the primary care setting.
If you regularly see patients with jaw pain, headaches, neck discomfort, or suspected TMD, this webinar will give you the clarity and confidence to assess, differentiate, and manage these cases safely.
💡 What you’ll learn:
• How to assess and identify TMD using current evidence
• Key differentials for jaw region pain
• Red flags to rule out in primary care
• Evidence-based management approaches
👥 Who’s it for?
FCPs & clinicians managing MSK presentations, Physios, Paramedics, GPs, ACPs, Practice Nurses.
📍 Online | Feb 11 | 12:30pm–1:15pm
Don’t miss this high-value clinical update designed for busy primary care teams!
🧠 Mental health is complex. Your approach doesn’t have to be.
Primary care teams support patients with mental ill health every day, often in the middle of uncertainty, time pressure, and competing demands. This funded Mental Health in Primary Care course is designed to cut through the noise and build real confidence where it matters most.
✔ Evidence-based, practical learning
✔ Long-term condition approach to mental health
✔ Skills to assess, plan care, and access the right support
✔ Clear understanding of pathways across health, social care and the third sector
✨ 10 fully funded places available (valued at £2,850 per person)
📅 Induction: 25 March 2026 | Course starts after Easter
⏰ EOI deadline: 31 January 2026
You don’t need to have every answer.
You just need to know where to start.
Shared Learning Programme
Join colleagues from across the Nottinghamshire health community for accessible, collaborative clinical learning, designed to connect primary and secondary care and support shared understanding.
💻 Open to all health professionals | Delivered via Microsoft Teams
I’ve been out and about at a recent event, doing what I do best — hiding in plain sight 😄
Sometimes I’m on the table, sometimes I’m tucked away, but I’m always nearby when NATH is sharing training, opportunities and good conversations.
👉 Swipe through and see if you can spot me!
Let me know if you find me… I promise I won’t move (much) 🧶😉
I was knitted by Sarah (our Evidence and Evaluation Associate) just for fun, and then became part of the NATH team 🧡
I’m more than just a mascot, I’m here to spark curiosity, share knowledge, and celebrate the amazing work of our primary care community 🧡
You’ll spot me exploring events, spotting opportunities to learn, and highlighting insights that help everyone grow.
Think of me as your friendly guide and cheerleader, always ready to inspire, inform, and shine a light on innovation in healthcare 🪑✨
Join us on Wednesday, 7 January 2026, 7:00–8:30pm for a monthly pathway-focused session bringing together primary, community, secondary, and tertiary care colleagues.
This session will cover:
Updates from Paediatric Respiratory specialists
Opportunities to share learning, enhance collaboration, and break down traditional barriers between care settings
Interactive Q&A to discuss cases and insights
The programme is open to all health professionals, and if you can’t join live, recordings will be available.
💻 Register now via our Eventbrite and be part of this exciting shared learning initiative!
Polypharmacy is one of the biggest challenges in modern healthcare, and one of the hardest to navigate safely. Balancing clinical guidance, patient priorities, long-term conditions and risk is rarely straightforward, and decisions around deprescribing can feel complex and high-stakes.
The Polypharmacy Action Learning Sets create a supportive space for experienced prescribers to pause, reflect and learn alongside peers. Rather than traditional teaching, these sessions focus on real cases, shared experience and collaborative discussion, helping participants build confidence in medicines optimisation and stopping inappropriate medicines safely. This fully funded programme offers the opportunity to:
- Explore complex polypharmacy challenges in a safe, non-judgemental setting
- Learn from others facing similar prescribing decisions
- Strengthen confidence in person-centred deprescribing
- Apply learning directly to everyday clinical practice
🗓 Expression of interest closes: 23 January
🚨 Only 24 places available
👉 Apply now and be part of the conversation shaping safer, more effective prescribing - https://ow.ly/CVFu50XNJLk
30/12/2025
Spirometry Update: Performing in Adults and Children
Already trained in spirometry and delivering it in practice? This 2-hour standalone update is designed to help you stay confident, consistent and aligned with current standards.
Delivered by Notts Primary Care Training, this session provides an annual refresher for clinicians who are actively performing spirometry in primary care, with practical guidance you can apply straight away.
🗓 6 January
⏰ 9:30am – 11:30am (GMT)
💻 Online (Teams)
📍 For Primary Care staff across Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
What we’ll cover:
• ATS/ERS 2019 spirometry standardisation update
• Indications, contraindications & infection control
• Equipment and patient preparation
🩺 AHP Skills to Build: Frailty – Introduction & Case Studies
Join on Thursday, 22 January 2026, 12:00–13:00 via Microsoft Teams for a bitesize training session on frailty syndrome.
Learn about:
- Characteristics of frailty and sarcopenia
- Using the Clinical Frailty Scale in practice
- Evidence-based approaches for varying levels of frailty
- National frailty agenda and ICS strategy
📚 Interactive case studies and reflection included!
Do you need support with problematic Structured Medication Reviews?
The Specialist Pharmacy Service is hosting two focused training sessions designed to support clinicians reviewing SMRs in the context of problematic polypharmacy, with a respiratory and diabetes focus.
These sessions will help you build confidence in reviewing medicines, applying evidence-based guidance, and making safer, more informed decisions for your patients.
Sessions:
- Respiratory Focus: 13th January 2026, 13:00-14:00
- Diabetes Focus: 10 February 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Already interpreting spirometry in practice? Let’s make sure you’re up to date!
Join us for a focused Spirometry Interpretation Update, a practical, two-hour webinar for healthcare professionals who are already interpreting spirometry and want to refresh their skills.
We’ll cover:
✅ Checking if spirometry is fit for interpretation
✅ Understanding graphs, LLN & Z scores
✅ Recognising patterns: normal, obstruction, restriction, combined
✅ Identifying significant reversibility and its relevance
✅ Considering results in clinical context to support diagnosis
✅ Writing clear, useful reports
✅ Interpreting real-life case studies
✅ An overview of the National Register
🗓 Tuesday 13 January 2026
🕤 9:30–11:30am BST
💸 Fully funded — no cost to attend
For HCPs currently providing spirometry interpretation in practice, keep your skills sharp and stay confident in your clinical decisions.
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Training Hubs are integral to Health Education England’s core purpose of supporting the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to patients and the public through ensuring the primary care workforce of today and tomorrow are trained in the right numbers, have the necessary skills, NHS values and behaviours at the right time and in the right place as described.
Through their activities, they support the delivery of HEE objectives and priorities as described in the Mandate and the HEE workforce plan: “Framework 15”. In addition, they are ideally placed to work within the NHS’ newly emerging system architecture, and support delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan.
HEE conceived the development of Training Hubs with a national implementation programme starting in 2015. Their effectiveness at delivering key educational and workforce programmes to support primary care was acknowledged in an external audit of effectiveness commissioned by HEE. However, there was noted variation in priorities, activities and maturity of the organisations. Consequently, the consistency of activities and the roll out of effective/ innovative programmes has been challenging. It was also noted that a lack of consistent funding was threatening the sustainability of the Training Hubs and exacerbating the noted variation.
In seeking to address the recommendations of the audit of effectiveness, Training Hubs, together with the HEE Primary Care Team, reviewed the core functions and contributed to the development of a common operating framework. The common operating framework is designed to enhance and provide assurance with respect to their functions, governance structure, stakeholder relationships and operating model. In doing this piece of work we have worked in close collaboration with our primary care colleagues in NHSE/I.
Core Principles
At the inception of Training Hubs, a set of guiding national principles was supported by HEE, NHSE/I, the RCGP and the BMA GP Committee. These have continued to be reviewed in light of the development of HEE and NHS priorities, and underpin the programme going forward.
Training Hubs are accountable to HEE through Primary Care Schools and the Postgraduate Dean with respect to educational governance and quality management of the clinical learning environment, and the organisation of clinical placements for work undertaken under HEE’s direction. Through HEE they are also accountable to the HEE led National Training Hub Oversight Board with respect to educational governance and quality management of the clinical learning environment, and the organisation of clinical placements for work undertaken under HEE’s direction.
Training Hubs are jointly accountable for workstreams developed in collaboration between HEE and NHSE/I nationally and to Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs)/ Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) for workstreams developed locally to address identified local workforce priorities.
However, the potential for Training Hubs to develop further is considerable: they are ideally positioned to enable “place-based” delivery of education, training and workforce development of the wider NHS primary care workforce at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and at all stages of a NHS professional’s career in primary care. Through a “place-based” approach and the management of educational tariff, Training Hubs can positively influence workforce “investment decisions” and the delivery of population healthcare needs to help tackle observed healthcare inequalities.
Existing Core Functions of Training Hubs
1. The development and expansion of capacity of high-quality learning placements at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including provision, training and development of faculty of multi-professional educators.
2. Supporting better understanding of workforce planning needs and their realisation across the STP/ICS and at primary care network level, across health and social care.
3. Supporting the development and realisation of educational programmes to develop the primary/ community care workforce at scale to address identified population health needs or support service re-design and delivery of integrated care.
Training Hubs – The Offer
By March 2020, all Primary Care Networks will have access to the resources of a Training Hub.
By March 2020, all Primary Care Networks will be supported through the Training Hub programme to develop and maximise their teaching and learning environment: improving overall capacity.
Recognising the variation that exists across Training Hubs in order to fully realise delivery of the described core activities by March 2020, an accurate assessment of “readiness” has been undertaken through a self assessment maturity matrix.
The overarching offer that Training Hubs are expected to provide is detailed in the Maturity Matrix (Appendix 1) which includes expectations across the varying Training Hub workstreams.
Whilst the Maturity Matrix document describes the core expected functions, this does not limit a Training Hub, both now and in the future, to expand their functions and adapt to support changes in both Postgraduate Medical and Dental training, the delivery of integrated care across existing organisational boundaries, or support new as yet un-envisaged roles.
Core Functions from April 2020
The contribution Training Hubs have made, particularly in responding to local future workforce needs through the expansion of training placements, has been acknowledged: such that they are now included in the Long Term Plan and referenced in the new GP contract. HEE and NHSE will be working in collaboration to develop shared understanding of how these functions are delivered and what level of support is required.
It has been noted that there has been variation in both their levels of maturity and adoption of workstreams. The significant investment from HEE requires the appropriate governance and accountability and evidence of delivery.
With a significant investment in Training Hubs, their existing functions will be built on to provide a consistent England wide offer to include:
Further development and expansion of placement capacity to create innovative and high-quality clinical placements for all learners to meet the workforce needs of “the place” in line with the Long Term Plan: thus, maximising the effective use of educational resources across the network.
In addition to the continuation of the role in supporting understanding of workforce planning, assisting in the co-ordination and realisation of the health and social care workforce across the STP/ ICS system.
Support recruitment of the primary care workforce through:
Developing, expanding and enhancing recruitment of multi-professional educators together with developing their capabilities to support the delivery of high-quality clinical learning placements and high-quality teaching and learning environments.
Supporting the development and realisation of educational programmes to develop the primary/ community care workforce at scale to address identified population health needs, support service re-design and the delivery of integrated care (through, for example, rotational placements and integrated educational programmes of learning).
4. Enable, support and embed “new roles” within primary care.
5. Supporting the retention of the primary care workforce across all key transitions
including promoting primary care as an employment destination to students, through
schools and higher education institutions.
6. Enable both workforce planning intentions and placement co-ordination through the
active management of clinical placement tariffs – moving towards “place-based tariffs”.
