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Changes in recruitment to public health consultant posts and hospital consultant posts in England: potential impact on the sustainability of the Public Health system.
BACKGROUND The UK government has proposed major changes to the Public Health system in England. This study aims quantify increasing anecdotal concern that the number of Public Health consultant posts advertised has plummeted since the publication of these plans. METHODS The archives of BMJ careers were interrogated for hospital and Public Health consultant posts advertised October 2008 and Ma...
متن کاملA really bad locum.
Dr. Smith is getting close to retirement. I can tell this without ever having met him. I don’t remember seeing him when I worked in this clinic before; maybe he was away then, too, and had some other locum filling in. One of the patients mentions that Dr. Smith will be retiring soon, but I would have guessed it from the fact that so many of his patients are old. All of those in hospital are ove...
متن کاملA full-time locum.
How about that? Otherwise, locum is short for locum tenens (Latin) meaning “a place holder”—a person who temporarily fulfils the duties of another.1 Working as a locum is increasingly common both nationally and internationally.2 For the past 2 years, I have been working as a full-time locum, mainly in northern Ontario, and I have held hospital privileges in 8 different communities. My locum exp...
متن کاملLocum tenens consultant doctors in a rural general hospital - an essential part of the medical workforce or an expensive stopgap?
INTRODUCTION Maintaining hospital consultant staffing levels often requires the employment of locum tenens to meet service needs. This is particularly so in hospitals where core clinical services are run by a small number of permanently appointed consultants. The problems associated with locum employment are underestimated and little attention has been directed towards addressing the issue in t...
متن کاملGeneral Practice Locum Improvement Tool
An improvement culture is required in the NHS. Staff members who move from one place of work to another are often best placed to see alternative methods of working that at times are more efficient - locum general practitioners (GPs) tend to be in this category. A tool was developed specifically to obtain quality improvement suggestions to the general practice from the locum GP and vice versa in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Psychiatric Bulletin
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0955-6036,1472-1473
DOI: 10.1192/pb.17.2.119