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.
----- Original Message -----
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 -----
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
