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Trainer Tools
Find the IMP
Understanding What Really Matters to Patients
Traditional ICE questions (Ideas, Concerns, Expectations) can feel awkward or perfunctory, often eliciting rehearsed answers that miss the true effect of illness on a patient’s life. Find the IMP provides a more nuanced, natural approach for trainees:
Impact – Explore how the condition affects all areas of life: work, home, relationships, leisure, and daily routines.
Meaning – Delve into the personal and emotional significance of the illness, including fears, guilt, or psychological burden.
Priorities – Identify what the patient perceives needs attention first, without asking directly; this can emerge through careful, open-ended questioning and attentive listening to what the patient emphasizes or returns to in the conversation.
By using IMP, trainees can uncover deeper insights, understand the patient’s lived experience, and create truly patient-centred management plans — all while fostering authentic conversation, rapport, and shared decision-making.
This month’s focus is “Meaning”
Follow the link for more information on priorities and to download our quick reference sheet for Find the IMP
**Monthly Cases**
October Cases Available
Each month, we’ll be sharing two brand new ready to use cases; each evidenced against latest guidance (always referenced) and RCGP standards (COTs/SCA aligned.
These are designed to be used in, and support trainers, in tutorials, or one-to-one supervision. These cases are designed to reflect real-world general practice, with opportunities to explore clinical reasoning, communication skills, and patient-centred management
They are developed so that the trainer can use with ST1, ST2 and ST3 resident doctors, using their discretion with the psychosocial and patient attitudes and beliefs to increase the challenge as needed
October’s cases (click on them to download):
Each case pack includes:
Doctor’s notes
Patient script
Evidence-based guidance with relevant links (NICE, CKS, BNF, etc.)
Optional tutor guidance for qualitative feedback
Whether used as part of assessments or broader consultation skills teaching, these cases are designed to prompt discussion, encourage reflection, and support confident, structured learning.
October Cases will be release early October - subscribe if you want to be emailed when they go live!
Leadership Activity Toolkit
Supporting trainees/resident doctors with the ST3 Leadership Activity can be challenging — it’s often reduced to a “tick-box” exercise. The Leadership Activity Toolkit is designed to help supervisors guide their trainees in choosing and completing a project that is realistic, meaningful, and fully aligned with RCGP WPBA requirements.
This resource includes:
A menu of 13 project ideas, most of which fit within ~16 hours of work.
Clear mapping to leadership skills, MSF feedback areas, and reflection prompts.
Structured guidance to help trainees move beyond compliance towards genuine leadership development.
👉 Download the toolkit to use in tutorials or PDP discussions, and support your trainees to make their leadership activity a valuable part of their journey to independent practice. with clarity, structure, and confidence.
New resources released each month
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Half Day Release Resources
Planning Resources
Teaching Sessions for October
Although we’re releasing these resources in October they’re designed to be flexible. Use them now if you’re ready, or save them for later in the training year when they best fit your programme.
Whenever you choose to use them, we hope they save you time and spark meaningful learning for your trainees.
w/c 20th October
Communication Skills
Always useful to do role play sessions. The cases here come with doctors note, script, management references, a marking scheme within the SCA domains. For ST3’s this may work well. You may choose to ditch the marking scheme for ST1 and ST2’s and give more qualitative/narrative feedback.
These cases can be used with actors or trainees being the patient (don’t underestimate the value of the latter , particularly for trainees who struggle with empathy or valuing patient priorities)
w/c 13th October
Clinical Conundrums
20-30minutes starter to create energised discussions
Quick Random Scenarios - Give Trainees 5 minutes in small groups
Come back together - What did they decide & why -Explore as needed.
October’s Clinical Conundrums
w/c 27th October
Half Term?
If your teaching group is not on half term, why not look at our Safety Netting Resources and consider a teaching session around this.
SCA Feedback from the RCGP often reports that trainees safety net poorly and vaguely. A session exploring the principles, aims of safety netting and how to do it effectively is a high value and potentially high yield session.
Click here for session outline and resources
Premium Services - Clinical Cases for GP Teaching Programmes
*Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order (PO) before confirming a booking, GP Fluency will provide a pro forma invoice or quotation on request. This document will outline the agreed services, costs, and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, the delivery timeline will begin, and GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling your order. Please contact us via the custom requests or contact us page
Four cases written just for your programme — and never sold to anyone else. Guaranteed exclusivity.
Unique content for your trainees only
Ideal for repeated use over multiple years
Candidate notes, patient scripts, examiners mark scheme/brief all included
Delivered, as pdf’s, within 2–3 weeks to an NHS email address
Request four tailored cases to your brief — whether you want to target curriculum gaps, specific clinical areas, or communication challenges.
Personalised to your requests
Flexible remit — clinical or non-clinical
Your cases, your way - tailored to the needs of you and your trainees
Delivered, as pdfs, within 2–3 weeks to an NHS email address
A ready-to-use set of four high-quality role play cases, perfect for a GP teaching session focused on communication skills. Each case includes candidate notes, patient script, & educators brief/marking guide mapped to RCGP SCA domains.
Curriculum-linked
Realistic scenarios
Saves hours of educator prep time
All ready-to-use sets are sent, as PDF’s, within 2 working days
Premium Services - Mock SCA Resources for GP Teaching Programmes
Run a full, timed mock SCA in your programme with six ready-to-use cases that reflect the breadth of the GP curriculum. Includes patient scripts, candidate briefs, examiners mark schemes and notes.
For use in 12minute SCA Remote Consultations
Easily used for in person Mocks too (note there are no physical examinations in line with SCA expectations)
Designed to challenge and support
Ready for you to use on receiving
Everything you need to deliver a high-quality mock exam without the hours of case writing.
All ready-to-use sets are sent within 2 working days to an NHS email address
Your own six-case SCA mock exam, we use your brief to provide cases which meet your teaching priorities. If you wish to cover specific clinical topics, specific consultation challenges, then opt for our bespoke service and we’ll provide you with 6 cases aligned to the RCGP SCA and your brief
Customised
Curriculum-mapped
Delivered within 1 week to an NHS email address
Perfect for educators who want a truly tailored exam experience for their trainees.
*Purchase Orders
If your organisation requires a Purchase Order (PO) before confirming a booking, GP Fluency will provide a pro forma invoice or quotation on request. This document will outline the agreed services, costs, and terms to support your internal approval process. Once a valid PO number has been issued and acknowledged, the delivery timeline will begin, and GP Fluency will proceed with fulfilling your order. Please contact us via the custom requests or contact us page
Custom Requests
Need something different? Whether it’s a short case for a teaching session, or an extended role play for a specific skill area, contact us with your request and we’ll see what’s possible