No, its not enough for the big hospitals. If we assume consultants provide
all the service commitment don't assume we will be working extra hours
without pay,then each doctor sees on average 2.4 patients/ hour (doesn't
sound a lot, but ties in well with US figures and with BAEM recommendations
for SHO numbers). 24.5 hours/week (3.5 hour NHD, 8 NHDs leaving 3 for
teaching, research, audit, admin, clinical governance etc), 42 weeks/ year.
This assumes that we dont go along with the BMA suggestions of evenings,
nights and weekends counting double or triple. Each doctor sees 2822
patients/ year. Leicester would need 40+ consultants. UK as a whole probably
has about 15,000,000 new attendances/ year (one for every 4 population), so
would need 5,300 consultants (anyone know what percentage of medical
graduates this is?). I assume there is some way round this (work faster,
work longer hours, don't see every patient), but the arithmetic is
interesting.
Matt Dunn
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From: John R PASKINS [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: The Future
OK ..so 11 consultants to run a consultant based service.
Is this enough for the big hospitals, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham etc?
How manyAE Depts are there going to be: 200? 400?
2200 AE Consultants, 4400? It's an awful lot of SpR posts.
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