What is Cornwall Primary & Community Care Training Hub and how can we support you?

Training Hubs, formerly known as Community Education Provider Networks (CEPN) have a national workforce planning and development remit for Primary Care and work across an STP area. They bring together NHS organisations, community providers and local authorities in order to support collaboration.

The Cornwall Training Hub is hosted and delivered in partnership with Kernow Health CIC, working across the health and care system in Cornwall on a range of workforce development programmes, providing at scale support and development to primary care. It is accountable to Health Education England, NHS England & Improvement along with the other stakeholders which commission services from it, including all General Practices across Cornwall.

Services have been developed in Cornwall to support General Practice and wider primary care around recruitment, retention, education and training for multi-disciplinary teams.

Services & support we provide:

For more information on each of the above sections please see our updated website www.kernowhealthcic.org.uk

Projects & programmes we work on:

In addition to the above services we get involved in multiple workforce development projects or programmes which are often cross system, examples are:

• Career Frameworks in General Practice
• System Pharmacy Programme
• Advance Clinical Practice
• Care Home Internship
• Upskilling Nursing Home Staff
• Public Health collaborative projects including; Exercise for the over 65’s; Self Management of Long Term Conditions; Physical Activity and Falls prevention.

If you would like to talk through your needs or have ideas where we can help:

Please contact us at kernowhealthcic.workforce@nhs.net for more information, or to speak to the team about how we can help your practice or career.