The South Yorkshire training programme is based primarily around Sheffield, Doncaster, and Rotherham, offering a comprehensive mix of clinical settings across hospital, hospice, and community palliative care.

Palliative medicine placements

Trainees rotate through:

• geographically NEWY is a large deanery and trainees are likely to rotate through most, if not all the following units
• inpatient units: focused on complex symptom management and end-of-life care
• hospital support teams: Embedded in acute hospital settings to manage patients with advanced disease
• community teams: Based in local hospices and community services

Hospital and hospice placements:

• St James’s Hospital (Leeds) with a wide variety of specialties including the Bexley Wing cancer centre
• Leeds General Infirmary in Leeds with a wide variety of tertiary specialties including Neurology, Stroke medicine, ENT, cardiology and most surgical specialties
• Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield which has the regional spinal injuries and burns units
• York District Hospital in York
• Scarborough Hospital
• Bradford Royal Infirmary
• St Gemma’s Hospice- a large hospice with 2 wards in North Leeds
• Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice in North Leeds
• Wakefield Hospice
• St Catherine’s Hospice in Scarborough
• St Leonard’s Hospice in York
• Marie Curie Hospice in Bradford
• Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice in Keighley

General internal medicine (GIM) rotations:

• Bradford Royal Infirmary: REACT placement which is an acute service linked with both ED and the community services in Bradford
• St James’s Hospital: Placement covering acute medicine including the on call rota
• Oncology placement at St James’s Hospital, Leeds (some time counts towards GIM)

Outpatient experience

Palliative medicine clinics are run at many sites including out of Wakefield Hospice, Marie Curie Hospice, St Gemma’s Hospice, Wheatfields Hospice and Manorlands Hospice providing additional outpatient exposure.

Academic and teaching opportunities:

• Strong academic links through academic palliative medicine consultants and the university of Leeds and HYMS.  St Gemma’s Also has a thriving Academic Unit
• Opportunities to be involved in research and undergraduate medical teaching.  Trainees have access to a weekly timetable based at St Gemma’s Hospice
• Weekly Wednesday morning teaching: Covers scientific and clinical aspects of palliative medicine and GIM, core curriculum topics, journal clubs and research