Practice Support

B&HF provides practices with a range of options to support workforce resilience, recruitment, efficiencies and reduce costs. These include:

  • PLT/practice training cover
  • Bank staff
  • Recruitment Support
  • Teamnet access
  • Free research support
  • Wellbeing support

Protected Learning Time

GP practices take part in a number of Protected Learning Time (PLT) sessions throughout the year to undertake clinical and non-clinical staff training for the whole practice team. All practices across Brighton and Hove close for the whole afternoon around 4 times per year for this purpose. During this time B&HF provides clinical and phone cover to the whole city, triaging patients and providing on-the-day appointments for those that need it.

GP practices or PCNs who want to close for training at other times of the year, can also request phone or clinical cover by contacting the main admin team. We can provide a quote depending on the level of cover required.

Bank Staff

B&HF maintains a bank of clinical and non-clinical staff who are available to work in-hours to support practice capacity. Practices can contact our admin team with requests, whether to provide on the day cover due to staff sickness, or for longer-term cover to fill a gap while recruiting.

Recruitment Support

Practices can access our pre-employment checks service which has proven very popular with 100% satisfaction from those who have used it. The service provides a psychological profile, giving insights into key skills and strengths a candidate may have, as well as providing online tests that can, for example, identify computer literacy skills.

Please contact Kate Waller if you are recruiting staff and wish to use this free service.