South Yorkshire Primary Care employers can submit a funding application for NMP via this link NMP funding application. Funding is for course fees only (no backfill) and so you will be required to confirm that you can support the trainee’s time out for study.

Applications must be completed in full; incomplete applications will not be accepted. The SY Primary Care Training Hub aims to review your application and contact you with an outcome within 2-3 weeks.

Please do not apply for the course until you receive a confirmation of funding email, or your application will not be eligible for funding. Confirmation of funding is only valid for the financial year that it is issued in and cannot be carried over into a new financial year.

Successful applicants will be sent confirmation of funding and sent a link to apply for the course. Course places are subject to university availability. If the course that your trainee has chosen is full then your application will remain on our waiting list for the next available round of funding.

Funding is available via the SY Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub to support registered primary care staff of NHS organisations within South Yorkshire (excluding doctors and dentists.) Funding is to support organisational priorities and will only be considered if the education follows the below criteria:

• The organisation can demonstrate how the learner will be supported
• The education is job-role specific
• The training is for Non-Medical Prescribing (24/25 financial year)

Modules currently prioritised for SY ICB Workforce funding are:

• Non-Medical Independent and/or Supplementary Prescribing  – Level 6 or Level 7

If you wish to study your chosen module with a view to completing a Masters in Advanced Clinical Practice, please visit our ACP page as an alternative funding route is available for this.

• Short courses (these are funded through CPD funding)
• Research and dissertation
• Doctorates
• Leadership & Management
• Full BSc courses
• Full Masters courses
• Mentorship (Practice Supervisor/Assessor courses)
• Courses lasting more than 1 year
• Modules previously covered by NHSE Workforce Transformation funding (APACS, Minor Illness, Minor Injuries)
• Pharmacist Independent Prescribing for non-ARRS staff (alternative Pharmacy funding source for this)

At the present time, METIP funding covers course fees only, paid direct to the university. There is no funding to cover your trainee’s time out of practice. Please visit the university course page for information on study days required as this varies between universities and discuss with your trainee; organisational support must be confirmed before funding applications can be approved.

• Sheffield Hallam University
• University of Sheffield

Please visit the university website for further information on specific courses/dates and contact the named course lead with any queries.

Funding applications are dealt with in the order in which they are lodged with the Training Hub and there is a limited amount of funding each year.

You will be notified within 2-3 weeks  if your funding application is successful and your trainee will be invited to apply for the course.

Course places are also subject to availability. If your chosen course places are full, the university will ask you to apply for a course date later in the financial year.

Confirmation of funding is only valid for the financial year that it is issued in and cannot be carried over into a new financial year.

If all course places within the financial year are full, the SY Primary Care Training Hub will keep your application on our waiting list to await a further funding release in the new financial year.

Your trainee is advised to state their preferred study day on their application form, however there is no guarantee that the university will be able to meet their request.

METIP funding is allocated within a financial year and cannot be carried over. If your trainee is unable to take up their course place then your funding application will be moved to next year’s waiting list.

You will be informed as soon as funding becomes available in the new financial year to support your application.

Please note: funding is limited and subject to withdrawal at any time. An offer of funding in one financial year does not mean that funding will be available in subsequent years.

NHSE Workforce Transformation funding (which has previously supported modules such as APACS & Minor Illness) has now ended. We are trying to source alternative sources of funding for these courses. If you would like to submit an EOI to be added to our waiting list and notified if/when funding becomes available, please complete this form. If you have previously submitted an EOI for these courses, then you do not need to re-submit.