Start with what you need
Use the homepage route finder when you know the problem but not the section. It directs you towards careers, employment, wellbeing, regulation, NHS orientation or nation-specific guidance.
Use the homepage route finder →Reader guide
How to use this website
Find the right starting point, use the learning tools effectively and understand what is—and is not—saved while you browse.
Before you begin
Choose whether to keep learning progress in this browser
Knowledge checks and interactive tools can be used without an account. To retain completed modules, latest scores and saved learning progress on this device, enable Browser learning features in Privacy choices.
- Open Privacy choices.
- Tick Browser learning features.
- Select Save choices.
These records remain in this browser. SAS Doctors Review cannot see, recover or transfer them, and turning the setting off removes them.
Four useful starting routes
Begin with the task, not the menu
You do not need to understand the whole website before using it. Choose the closest task and move between sections through the related links.
Search across the whole resource
Use a phrase, former title or abbreviation. Results are separated into website material, downloads, books and curated authoritative further reading.
Open Search & Evidence Finder →Follow a complete programme
Choose a flagship programme when you need structured teaching rather than a single answer. Each programme moves from foundations to application, reflection and practical preparation.
View programmes and progress →Take a document away
The resource library brings module PDFs, workbooks and editable templates together. Filter by programme, type, nation or format instead of searching menus.
Browse the download library →Learning programmes
Read, test, apply and record
The flagship programmes are designed for self-directed professional learning. They are not accredited examinations and their results do not assess competence or decide an employment, regulatory or registration outcome.
- Choose a moduleUse the stage map or begin with the module closest to the issue in front of you.
- Read the teaching sectionsFollow source links where a rule, policy or national process may change.
- Complete the knowledge checkSelect the best answer, submit it and read the explanation—not only the score.
- Use the practical tool or workbookTurn the learning into questions, evidence, a plan or a structured conversation.
- Review My learningIf browser learning is enabled, revisit unfinished modules and see the latest locally stored result.
Use feedback as part of the teaching
A question may have several plausible options. Choose the best response in the stated circumstances, submit it, then read why the preferred answer is stronger and why another response may be incomplete or unsafe.
Practise judgement across a programme
Programme-wide scenarios bring several topics together. They are most useful after completing the relevant modules, but can also identify areas to revisit.
Structure thinking; do not outsource decisions
Route finders, mappers, audits, planners and simulators produce educational prompts. Confirm current rules and seek individual advice where a decision carries legal, contractual, financial, regulatory or clinical consequences.
Keep identifiable information out of the tools.
Do not enter patient details, names of colleagues, confidential employer information or a detailed individual case. Use neutral prompts and keep any formal record in the appropriate approved system.
Search & Evidence Finder
Search beyond page titles
The finder searches website sections, learning modules, articles, news, all downloadable resources, books and a curated set of authoritative external sources. It also connects common abbreviations and former terminology with the website’s current language.
Try “Specialist role”Try “CESR evidence”Try “job planning Scotland”Try “GMC investigation”
Open Search & Evidence FinderWebsite map
What each section is for
Topics overlap, but each section has a distinct job. Related links help you move between them without repeating the same material.
News & analysis
Use Latest News for dated developments and direct links to original publications. Use Analysis for longer interpretation and professional perspective.
Guides & learning
Navigating the NHS explains how the system works. Leadership in Practice develops practical leadership judgement. My learning brings browser-saved progress together.
Appraisal & professional development
Use the Appraisal and Revalidation programme to map whole-practice evidence, prepare for the annual conversation and build a PDP. Planning entries stay in the open page and can be downloaded as text; they are not saved automatically. Optional learning storage remembers quiz results only.
Careers & employment
Use the Careers centre for roles and progression, Portfolio Pathway for specialist registration, and Contracts, Job Planning, Pay & Pensions for employment decisions.
Support & professional protection
The Support centre routes workplace difficulty, wellbeing, speaking up, SAS Advocate help and professional-regulation questions without asking for confidential case information.
UK nations
Employment structures, terminology, policies and support routes differ across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Start with the UK nations overview before relying on a nation-specific rule.
Resources & books
The library collects practical downloads. Books provide extended argument and sample reading, while website guidance remains the place for material that needs regular updating.
Using information safely
Check dates, nation and source
Publication dates, event dates and “last checked” dates serve different purposes. For contracts, pay, regulation, pensions, registration or formal deadlines, follow the direct primary-source link and confirm that the document applies to your UK nation and circumstances.
Website material provides general professional information. It cannot replace advice from an appropriate employer contact, union, defence organisation, regulator, solicitor, accountant, financial adviser or clinician.
Read the terms and professional boundaries →Continue reading
Visit Books & Publications →Books and free samples
Explore published and forthcoming books connected with NHS careers, workforce recognition, assumption and medical leadership. Free samples open in a separate flipbook tab.