Hi Suzanne
As I understand it your Trust cannot make you work any PA outside of 08-19
Mon to Fri. Outside those hours is defined as "Premium Time", which you can
agree to work PA's in on a 3 hours counts as 4 basis, but only if you choose
to do so [we will work weekend PA's on this basis but by choice]. On -call
work is unscheduled work for which there is a PA allowance based upon how
much time you spend working whilst on-call. I would also suggest defining
what should initiate a call to the Consultant out of hours, and this should
certainly not include queue busting at 3am!
On a different tack how are people dealing with Instructing on ALS/ATLS
etc.? Our Trust has said that Special Leave no longer exists in the new
contract and this time must now be either taken out of Study Leave [10
days/yr allowance so insufficient to support 2 ATLS and 2 APLS courses - my
usual annual allowance] or SPA time. If it is taken out of the latter any
direct clinical care time missed whilst on the course must be paid back. I
think many Instructors will be put off by this and this therefore
constitutes a major threat to these courses. I would be interested to hear
the view of anyone out there on one of the life support steering groups -
has this been considered?
Best wishes, Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "suzanne mason" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Bill Bailey" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:48 AM
Subject: consultant contract again
> Hi everyone
> Sorry to raise this again, but we in our Trust are wondering if any of you
> have managed to define on-call work as opposed to standard duties? We are
> trying to pre-empt any difficulties we may come up against with the trust
> expecting us to undertake standard duties out of hours and then ask us to
> convert these to standard programmed activities. The new contract does not
> seem clear about what is on-call work and there is the risk that being
> called in for long waits etc (especially with waits inevitably becoming
> longer) will be commonplace (this is not currently the case for us). We
have
> thought that within the negotiations we should be able to define what is
> on-call work and what is not. Our feeling that standard prograamed
> acitivites at 3am are not transferrable with those at 10am? Any thoughts
> from the list?
> Sue Mason
>
> Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant in Emergency Medicine
> Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield
> Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
>
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