1. What is Happening to Deaneries
Dr Emad George
Associate Dean SAS
East of England Multi-Professional Deanery
Focus on doctors in training

2. From April… Secretary of State Department of Health
Health Education England
Department of Health
Public Health England
Local Education and Training Boards
NHS Commissioning Board
Local Stakeholders, including local authorities
Education and Research
Health Service Providers
Professional Regulators
Clinical Commissioning Groups
AHSNs

3. LETB? Local Education and Training Board
Responsible for education and training of health & public health workers at regional level.
13 in England
Multiprofessional & Workforce Planning .

4. LETB Principles 1. Vision and leadership 2. Meaningful engagement
3. Good governance 
4. Effective financial control
5. Organisational capability
6. Outcome led improvement

5. LETB Will involve all stakeholders in education Hospitals Primary Care
Universities
?Private sector

6. Deaneries?
Deanery functions will continue to exist as part of the LETB
Role of Postgraduate Dean continues
Variations in how will work by region
In those with identified poor performance, the causes are multiple and varied, but key areas to explore include:
i) Clinical performance of the individual: (knowledge, skills, communication)
ii) Personality and behavioral issues: (professionalism, motivation)
iii) Sickness/ill health: (personal/family stress, career frustrations, financial)
iv) Environmental issues: (organisational, workload, bullying and harassment)

7. London
3 LETBs
North West
North Central & East
South

8. In East of England One LETB matching Deanery
Postgraduate Dean also the Director of Education & Quality
Central hub and 4 workforce partnership groups

9. Workforce Partnership Groups
Norfolk & Suffolk
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough
Beds & Herts
Essex

10. Workforce Partnership Groups
Each has own board
Responsible for education & training in locality
Local priorities
Feeds in to the main LETB

11. Impact?
Educational Support and Quality are in separate teams from April
Staffing effects

12. Effects on SAS
Funding?
Administrative support?
Wait and see

13. Key messages Stepping into the unknown
Deaneries are still there but relabelled, reorganised and absorbed
Now part of multi-professional training matched to workforce planning

14. Thank you