On 30 April 2008, around 180 attendees at the London Deanery conference divided up into groups to address the questions raised in the discussion paper ‘Implementing the PMETB Standards for Trainers’. The groups encompassed a broad range of deanery roles from Heads of Schools, Directors of Medical Education, and Postgraduate Centre Managers to representatives from Trust management and human resource departments. Each of the 12 groups reported in writing and their responses are summarised here: