APT for non-consultant career grade doctors?

Non-consultant career grade doctors: past, present and future.

There is still uncertainty and confusion over which grades of doctor are encompassed by the title ‘nonconsultant career grade doctors’ (NCCG). They are staff grade doctors and the more senior associate specialists. Also included are doctors working in the community, previously called clinical medical officers (CMOs) and senior clinical medical officers (SCMOs), although doctors in these groups ...

Non-consultant career grade doctors: the dependable backbone of genitourinary medicine?

Consultant doctors’ hand hygiene: practice and perspectives

Introduction / objectives Hand hygiene is considered the cornerstone of infection prevention practice, but previous studies demonstrate one group of healthcare professionals, doctors, have not achieved good levels of compliance in comparison to other staff groups. The aim of the research was to examine consultant doctors’ practice and perspectives of hand hygiene and explore their perceptions a...

A career for child health doctors.

The Court Report' was a prescription for more competence in child health care, more emphasis on prevention, and the integration of therapeutic and preventive child health services. These represented the underlying philosophy and spirit of Court that was accepted and commended,2 and recently re-affirmed3 as a starting point for alternative patterns of health services for children, after the reje...

A qualitative study of factors influencing antimicrobial prescribing by non-consultant hospital doctors.

OBJECTIVES To determine the factors that influence non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) in their decision to prescribe antimicrobial agents. METHODS A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews centred on a life grid tracking the medical career of 22 NCHDs employed by a university teaching hospital in the west of Ireland. RESULTS Early in their careers NCHD prescribing is based p...