Ashford and St. Peter's PGEC

There are dedicated education and learning centres on each site – the Education Centre located at the heart of Ashford Hospital and the Oliver Plunkett Postgraduate Education Centre located close by the Duchess of Kent Wing of St. Peter’s Hospital.

Both centres receive support funding from the Postgraduate Deanery of Kent, Sussex and Surrey, with additional funding from charitable trusts and benefactors.

The centres provide multi-disciplinary education facilities for the doctors in training, hospital medical staff, general practitioners, hospital scientists, nurses and rehabilitation professionals.

The postgraduate education programme includes seminars, tutorials and study days covering all medical specialties. In addition we provide Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), Paediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and GP Intensive training. The Basic Surgical Skills Training (BST) programme is also run on site on behalf of the Royal College of Surgeons.

In addition, Ashford is an examination centre for the Royal College of Physicians MRCP Clinical Part II examination (PACES).

Both centres provide comprehensive library and learning facilities in pleasant and quiet surroundings.

The department teams provide a friendly and helpful support service.