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Primary care education and training reources and updates
Resources
Choose GP
Learn more about a career in general practice, including the benefits, opportunities, and pathways for professional development:
- Watch our animated choose GP FAQ playlist or explore our animated GP career path playlist to get answers to your questions and discover more about life as a GP.
- Explore our choose GP video playlist, including peer-to-peer sessions with GPs in conversation with other practice colleagues. You can also listen to each session as a podcast:
NHS knowledge and library hub
The NHS knowledge and library hub connects healthcare staff and learners to high-quality, NHS-funded knowledge and evidence resources, all accessible through a single search.
NHS Learning Hub
The Learning Hub provides easy access to a wide range of educational resources, elearning, specialist health and care content and more, which have been developed or shared by professional organisations such as the Royal Colleges, universities and other health and care organisations.
Primary care case studies
Explore a collection of case studies showcasing best practices and success stories from across primary care.
Reports
NHS Long Term Workforce Plan
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan (2023) sets out the vision for growing and developing the workforce to meet the evolving needs of the NHS.
Training the future GP
The Training the future GP report (2023) outlines the vision and actions for general practice specialty training reform to transform the future GP workforce.
Destination GP
The Destination GP (2017) report from the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) details medical students’ experiences and perceptions of general practice.
By choice, not by chance
Professor Val Wass OBE was commissioned to investigate how general practice is taught in medical schools. This resulted in the By choice, not by chance (2016) report, which looked at students' experiences and shines the spotlight on the need to tackle long-held views about general practice, which is often perceived as a less valued career. It emphasises that change is key to ensuring we have the GP workforce required to meet service and patient demands for the future.
The future of primary care: Creating teams for tomorrow
The primary care workforce commission, chaired by Martin Roland CBE, published the future of primary care: Creating teams for tomorrow (2015) report, which set out the commission’s thinking, including a call for greater collaboration across organisations and a broader range of staff involved in the delivery of healthcare.