So do I Ray and we are on the shop floor till 8 in the evening with 3.5 consultants to help with the waits but some staff feel that the consultant on call is at their beck and call.
Ash
----- Original Message -----
From: Ray McGlone
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Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: consultant being called in
Although I'm a firm believer in Consultants being on the shopfloor and working outside office hours I've never gone in to specifically reduce the waiting time. That arrangement would be too open ended.
Certainly the only way to solve the problem of peaks of demand is to have staff available to come in at a moments notice...... but I don't see nursing staff volunteering for this.... and there are more nursing staff than doctors in A&E.
Ray McGlone
Lancaster
----- Original Message -----
From: ashes.mukherjee
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Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: consultant being called in
Hi,
I wonder if the practice of calling a consultant on-call into the department because of breaches happening throughout the country. Over the last week the consultant oncall has been called in on four nights because " it was thought by the nurse in charge that there might be breaches". To go into the department at 3 in the morning to find that there were 8 patients in the minors box and 2 in majors with 2 SHO's and a middle grade on the floor, was pretty ridiculous to me. Would be interested to know what the consensus on the list on this matter.
Ash Mukherjee
