Northern Foundation School: Meet the Team & Contact Us

Members of the Northern Foundation School team can be found below. To email someone in the team, simply click on the appropriate name.
 
If your query is relating to recruitment at the Northern Foundation School please email the generic inbox FoundationrecruitmentNFS.ne@hee.nhs.uk and we will aim to respond to your query within 5 working days of receipt of your email.

 

If your query is relating to HORUS and e-portfolio please email the generic inbox HorusNFS.ne@hee.nhs.uk and we will aim to respond to your query within 5 working days of receipt of your email. This includes requests for verification of training dates from former Foundation doctors with accounts linked to the NES ePortfolio.

 

Dr Jon Scott

Foundation School Director

0191 2754618

Nicola Whitelock

Foundation School Business Manager

0191 2754784

Diane Johnson

Foundation Programme Support Coordinator

 0191 2754649

Gillian Quinn

Office Administrator

0191 2754708

 Lyn Brown

Office Administrator

0191 2754703

Angela Burton

Foundation Programme Director for Portfolio
  

Dr Esther Sheard/Dr Shuja Hafeez 

Foundation Programme Director - GP in FP

  

Prof. Gill Vance

 Foundation Programme Director- Academic FP

 

Dr Jo Flowers

 

Foundation Programme Director - Doctors with Differing Needs

  

Dr Nicky Desira

Foundation Programme Director - Doctors with Differing Needs

  
Dr Rhian Jones Foundation Programme Director - Doctors with Differing Needs  
Dr Nigel Stout Foundation Programme Director - Doctors with Differing Needs  

 

Useful links

Better Doctors Better Patients (BDBP) is the regional professionalism course that is available to all of our Foundation year 1 doctors.

It is a fun and interactive course that is delivered across 3 days encompassing many aspects of professionalism with the aim of making Foundation doctors safer, happier, more effective and efficient and therefore more able to deliver excellent quality care to our patients.

The face to face course training is supported by a manual and webinars.

It covers key themes such as well being, self-development, communication and teamworking skills, patient safety, quality improvement, non-technical skills and leadership.

These themes overlap extensively with the Enhance programme which is also available to Foundation doctors.

 

Many LEP’s have taken the principles and concepts of the better doctors better patients course to provide further training into Foundation year 2.

 

The programme is led jointly by Dr Rhian Jones and Dr Charlotte Bates who both work at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

They are supported by ‘core trainers’ Dr Nigel Stout, Dr Shrikanth Mada and Mrs Liz Klein

 

The BDBP team are keen to expand their faculty, and anyone wishing to know more or become involved would be welcome to contact the programme leads.

Rhian.jones@nhct.nhs.uk

Charlotte.bates@nhct.nhs.uk

 

Additional resources for LEP trainers can be found here.