All three of King’s Health Partners’ NHS Trusts have been successful in their bids to provide postgraduate education and training across a wide range of medical specialties. The London Commissioner for Medical and Dental Education (LCMDE) has awarded ‘preferred bidder’ status to a total of eight NHS Trusts, to lead and manage £77 million worth of postgraduate medical education across London.

The good news means that King’s College Hospital, Guy’s and St Thomas’, and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts will provide training programmes to higher specialty trainees across South London in 14 different specialties, for example from renal medicine to forensic psychiatry.

Professor Anne Greenough, Director of Educator and Training, King’s Health Partners said:

“This is an outstanding result for our partnership, and I would like to thank all those who have been involved in putting these bids together, on behalf of King’s Health Partners.

“Our training programmes enable our trainees to gain the skills they need to fulfill their future roles as leaders and shapers of a health service aiming to constantly improve the quality and safety of care; meeting increasing patient expectations in varying economic environments. At King’s Health Partners we have successfully demonstrated the ambition and capacity to deliver this.”

This continues the ambitious programme that saw £27million postgraduate medical and dental education and training let to 10 Lead Providers in 2011 which is already realising benefits for employers, trainees and most importantly for patients in London.

Discussions with all preferred bidders will now take place with the intention to have three-year contracts signed by 31 April ahead of trainees commencing from August 2012.