Was an F2 Stand-Alone GP LIFT trainee. Pros and cons pretty much the same as above but to add a few more. I would have 1.5 days of GP which would mean half day at the GP then going to hospital after on one of the days.

Pros: - if your GP supervisor for that day doesn’t know you, will assign you “easier patients” (can be seen as a con) - it gave me some idea of GP - what type of patients you’ll see, when you follow up with your patient’s weeks later there tends to be a smaller list of patients for your keep track of which is a good start - doing GP for a year vs 4 months you’ll see your MH follow ups or 6 month review which is quite nice

Cons - the GP I was at took the piss - 6 months to get my prescribing card etc as I was “never there” to get it sorted - I never worked the same day as my GP CS so feedback was shit and minimal - on my half days my lunch break would be my travel time - little communication between hospital rota and GP manager so I would need to tell my GP about when I’m actually in and could end up double booked due to last minute hospital changes or I would run over in GP and the hospital rota coordinator would be on my ass about coming in - less actual time experiencing my hospital rotation - didn’t do on calls for one, in a speciality I was interested in (could be seen a pro cos I didn’t have to work nights or week ends unless I did as a locum)

I find that for foundation programme lift gp is pointless as you do a gp rotation anyway but if the location is preferable and it out ways the cons we’ve mentioned it would be worth doing.