> The department is divided physically into paediatric and an adult sides,
> with
> a registrar each side on every day shift (from 0800 - 2400) and one
> emergency
> trainee on the night shift to cover both paeds and adults. There is also
> constant consultant presence on the shop floor from 0800 - 2300. The
> consultant is called in at night purely for transfers of critically ill
> patients. We see about 50 000 patients a year.
>
> Paul
I can see departments like ours closing over the next year or two. What with
Calman, European law, difficulty in consultant recruitment and recently the
new SHO directives it will become impossible to keep them staffed. I know from
experience there has been a massive exodus of staff-grades from A & E into
general practice and do you blame them? If I was 5 years younger I would have
buggered off long ago but who'd employ a 52 year old A & E consultant?
One of our staff grades left and came back as an SHO on the GPVTS scheme and he
earns more than me. Staff grades in A & E have been exploited by the
speciality I'm afraid to say.
Danny
McGeehan
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