Box 2.

Workshop structure

Welcome, introduction and outline.
Plenary session about Health Education England's SuppoRTT programme, incorporating its rationale and infrastructure.
Plenary session about the resources available to trainers supervising trainees returning to practice and how to access them.
Small group case-based work focusing on the needs of trainees and trainers, using standardised cases.
Group discussion of the implications of time out of training on trainees’ clinical and non-clinical skills and on local and regional training programmes.
Plenary session on future action planning for trainers supervising trainees returning to practice.