Peer to peer training

Are you passionate about the right to healthcare? Do you want to improve practice in your workplace?

Peer-to-Peer training modules are designed to be delivered by NHS healthcare professionals and medical students, and aim to empower them to improve their colleagues’ understanding of migrant rights to healthcare in England. They should be delivered at trainers’ workplaces or universities.

There are three 1-1.5 hour tailored training modules – choose one depending on your audience:  primary care, secondary care or general audiences. All the information is based on the Doctors of the World UK’s knowledge and experience of supporting patients at our London clinics. The training enhances understanding of migrant entitlement to NHS care; barriers faced by vulnerable migrants; and good practice in ensuring healthcare access.

All slides and resources are the intellectual property of Doctors of the World UK and shouldn’t be shared or used without acknowledgement or in a manner that is not in accordance with the Guidelines for peer-to-peer trainers.

What is the Safe Surgeries project?

Doctors of the World UK’s Safe Surgeries initiative improves access to primary care by providing free training, resources and support to GP practices. You can find out more and sign up your practice here.

Who are peer-to-peer trainers?

Peer-to-peer trainers are clinical or non-clinical healthcare professionals and medical students dedicated to the right to healthcare and the need to address health inequalities faced by migrants in the UK. By being a peer-to-peer trainer, you can improve practice in your workplace, university or other professional community. Healthcare professionals and students are in an optimal position to engage peers and build NHS capacity for vulnerable groups, due to your direct experiences at the frontline of NHS provision.

What is expected of peer-to-peer trainers?

Use the most up-to-date DoTW resources to include policy developments

If you deliver a Peer-to-Peer training session, please complete this form to let us know and provide your feedback on the Peer-to-Peer training resource. Please also share this survey with participants of the training.

Peer-to-peer training is limited to workplaces, universities, and professional membership organisations only. DoTW runs its own training programme targeted at junior doctors, GP practices, and strategic stakeholders. If you identify an opportunity to deliver training to an external organisation or a strategic policy stakeholder, please contact us at safesurgeries@doctorsoftheworld.org.uk

Encourage your practice and PCN to sign up to be a Safe Surgery by completing the form on our website

Training materials updated August 2025.

For more information about Safe Surgeries training, email us.

Training guide