Revalidation

The responsible officer for the trust (Dr Timothy Ho, medical director) makes revalidation recommendations based on past appraisals and other supporting documentation.

Medical appraisal

All medical appraisals should be completed on the Trust's appraisal system L2P. 

Your appraisal deadline is usually scheduled 12 months from your last appraisal. If you have never done an appraisal before, or have just come out of training, you should have been given a suitable deadline on L2P - if you have any queries about this please email the revalidation team.

You will receive an email (notice of appraisal) from the revalidation team approximately 3 months before your appraisal deadline, and automated reminders will be generated from L2P. Approximately 2 weeks before your appraisal month, the following documents will be uploaded by the revalidation team to your appraisal:

• an event profile containing details of incidents (rated moderate and above), complaints and claims.
• HED report (usually bed holding consultants only) showing clinical activity data.
• an appraiser rating report (appraisers only) summarising feedback from appraisees.

Identifying an appraiser

Some departments allocate appraisers and if this is the case your appraiser will be assigned on L2P. Otherwise, to find someone suitable please liaise with your appraisal co-ordinator (a list of co-ordinators will be sent to you with the notice of appraisal or can be found on the resources page on L2P). Alternatively, you can identify an appraiser yourself.   

If identifying an appraiser yourself, please speak to them first before making a request on L2P, to check they have the capacity, as they may not be able to do it due to the number of appraisals already in their diary or other work commitments. You should also agree your appraiser with the appraisal co-ordinator.  

You may have the same appraiser up to a maximum of 3 times, within the previous 6 appraisals. Appraisers cannot have reciprocal arrangements with another appraiser, within their previous 6 appraisals. The L2P system will automatically block these requests.

Enquiries

Please direct any enquiries relating to appraisal or revalidation to:

Revalidation team: fhft.revalidation@nhs.net

Claire Steel, Head of medical director services: Claire.Steel1@nhs.net or 0300 615 4370

Aisha Khan, revalidation and appraisal administrator (Wexham Park): aisha.khan@nhs.net or 0300 615 6052

Catherine Charles, revalidation and appraisal administrator (Frimley Park) on: catherine.charles5@nhs.net