We get called if the wait is over 3 hours, but we are not yet asked to come in unless the department is unsafe. Though you can sometimes hear the desperation from senior nursing staff to be rescued. Though if the trust does not want to pay for 24/7 middle grade cover it is not getting us for free either.
Andy Webster
>What have colleagues negotiated with their employing trusts when the trust
>wants the consultant to come in, when on-call, to queue bash.I acknowledge
>the specialty has indicated it disapproves of trusts abusing consultants to
>address 4hr breach targets-as opposed to clinical targets, but that does not
>seem to stop them trieing as I found out at 0320hr this morning-despite me
>being involved in writing an escalation policy that did not include calling
>consultants in.
>I understand some hospitals remunerate the consultants with a fee
>commensurate with what surgeons get paid to do waiting list initiative, I
>also appreciate the new contract enables use of compensatory leave when
>consultants are significanlty disturbed at night.
>Any info appreciated.
>mark at macclesfield
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