Training LTFT resources

Here you'll find other useful LTFT advice, guidelines, and policies.

General Medical Council

• GMC position statement: Less than full-time training, updated 2024
• Adapting for the future: a plan for improving the flexibility of UK postgraduate medical training, 2015
• Promoting excellence: standards for medical education and training, 2019. Emphasis on doctors in training must have access to systems and information to support less than full-time training (R3.10)

Gold Guide

• COPMED A Reference Guide for Postgraduate Specialty Training in the UK

NHS Employers

• Doctors in flexible training. Principles underpinning the new arrangements for flexible training, 2017

British Medical Association

• BMA: Flexible training, February 2022
• BMA: Rota and rostering guidance for LTFT doctors, February 2022
• BMA: Less than full time training (LTFT) forum, August 2022
• BMA: Less than full-time trainees' pay explained, June 2023

Trainees’ tales of less than full time training

Health careers

• Less than full time training for doctors, 2017. Useful review of pros and cons of LTFT working, options for LTFT working, including advantages of working full days and part days, top tips for LTFT working, etc.
• Scotland Deanery
• Return from leave NHSE Yorkshire and Humber Guidance(there are similar in each NHSE Deanery area)
• The NHS Long Term Plan

Additional resources

The below resources have been developed across different regions of the UK and kindly shared with RCPsych. For more information, or to share your own local resources, please contact psychiatrytraining@rcpsych.ac.uk.

• Less Than Full Time Training Package For Educational Supervisor and Training Programme Directors (NHSE WTE East Midlands)
• Educational Supervisor & Training Programme Director Guide To Less Than Full Time Training (NHSE WTE East Midlands)
• LTFT Training in Psychiatry in the West Midlands Guidance for Trainees (NHSE WTE West Midlands)
• LTFT Guidance for ARCP Panels (NHSE WTE West Midlands)
• Completion of training date calculator with date of seniority calculation (NHSE WTE West Midlands)
• Risk Assessment Toolkit for Pregnant Trainees in Psychiatry - Supervision Guidance (NHSE WTE North West)
• Risk Assessment Toolkit for Breastfeeding Trainees in Psychiatry - Supervision Guidance (NHSE WTE North West)