About

Whipps Cross Waltham Forest Medical Education and Research Trust (WxWF MERT) supports activities within the catchment area of Whipps Cross University Hospital in London which largely includes Waltham Forest and West of Redbridge.

The Trust focuses on quality improvement and research activities especially between primary and secondary care. It has a multi professional focus and encourages pathway development especially across primary and secondary care, and supports integrated care development with urgent care, frailty and long-term conditions as some of the priority areas.
It is committed to improving outcomes for its local population and it looks forward to working with colleagues in the hospital as well as from primary, community and social care.
Whipps Cross Waltham Forest Medical Education and Research Trust awards grants to Researchers, Principal and sessional GPs, GP registrars, Consultants and junior doctors, as well as additionally providing sponsorship and awards to assist medical professionals to conduct research training and methodology.

Areas that it can provide grants for are:

• Research activity
• High quality postgraduate courses.

Quality and Service improvement is greatly support especially across the hospital and community. It also provides prizes and grants for GP Trainees and junior doctors in training particularly in the area of quality improvement.

Specialities are valued as equally as generalist areas including general practice.

Whipps Cross Waltham Forest Medical Education and Research Trust provides a wide range of world class training courses together with other meetings for doctors, nurses, medical students, residents and fellows, allied health professionals and outside healthcare executives. The Trusts’ aim is to encourage, assist and provide learning excellence by drawing from world class expertise and available research, while ensuring that provided courses are available for all members of the medical, dental and allied professions. We look forward to welcoming you to a course in the future to share best practice, advance your learning all while networking with a global community of your colleagues.