Would a standard programmed activity not be something that had a regular
place in your job plan. If you did an "out of hours" session after 7PM but
it was in your job plan then three hours work would count as 1 PA rather
than 4 hours.
However if you come in at 3AM, which I suspect is unlikely for waits then
that would not be scheduled/planned in your job plan and would not count as
a PA. In addition if the trust wanted you to come in for waits then as you
are covered under EWTD, then you would have to ask them to balance that
against the 11 hours rest period you would then require, which could
adversely affect breaches during the day time.
Andy Webster
Subject: consultant contract again
Hi everyone
Sorry to raise this again, but we in our Trust are wondering if any of you
have managed to define on-call work as opposed to standard duties? We are
trying to pre-empt any difficulties we may come up against with the trust
expecting us to undertake standard duties out of hours and then ask us to
convert these to standard programmed activities. The new contract does not
seem clear about what is on-call work and there is the risk that being
called in for long waits etc (especially with waits inevitably becoming
longer) will be commonplace (this is not currently the case for us). We have
thought that within the negotiations we should be able to define what is
on-call work and what is not. Our feeling that standard prograamed
acitivites at 3am are not transferrable with those at 10am? Any thoughts
from the list?
Sue Mason
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