Given my abject failure to attract senior staff to my department what is the list's view of the maximum on-call frequency for a DGH with 40,000 new cases per year.
There is middle grade presence 9am to 1am, the current consultants do shop floor at the weekend from 9-2ish on both days then go away on-call.
there is a consultant led trauma team with some input to the rota from surgery, orthopaedics and anaesthesia.
I have been working a 1:3 weekends and had hoped to reach 1:4
i had hoped given the excellent life style of a small coastal town with reasonable access to the larger northern towns and 3 hours to London by train that we would get some interest for those who wanted hands on care, could hack 1:3-4 weekends and not many calls at night.
What are you guys and gals wanting?
i need this data since the guy due to join in january has just pulled out for vague reasons and my senior partner retires in december leaving me solo with an Associate Specialist.
The Trust are going to come to me asking how to make us attractive, or, more likely how to keep me in place, I suspect. I am NOT going to do 1:1!
So what floats your boats?
What is everyone doing out there? round here 1:4 to 1:5 seems to be the target. Does that include presence on the shop floor at weekends?
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