Actually it doesn't come to as much as you think. I'm in maybe once or twice a night. Haven't audited the figures on what percentage result in a consultant coming in (it may vary between consultants). But my experience is that the majority of these cases are ones where consultant presence would be useful. It does mean though that you get to know about the most interesting patients. You can't really combine this with a lot of consultant presence into the evening and at weekends but arguably you don't need to: you use your consultant time for some fixed sessions supervising and checking the team are up to speed with the simpler cases and recognition of the trickier ones and for actually dealing with the complex cases rather than being present for extended periods when there are no cases that consultants are needed for but no consultant being there when they are needed.
Matt Dunn
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