New consultant contract.

New consultant contract-Statement by CCHMS Chairman.

The new consultant contract and women senior registrars.

If the profession regards the pricing as satisfactory the new consultant contractl is likely to be implemented. The basis of the contract is a "standard" commitment of 10 notional halfdays (NHDs) a week. These would comprise eight clinical sessions, one session to take account of continuing commitment to patient care outside normal working hours, and one to cover administrative duties. Provisio...

Creating ‘Science’s New Social Contract’?

In this paper we shall give a background to some of the main theoretical literature on the subject of what has been called (by Gibbons) “science’s new social contract with society”; central to this new contract is what is called “Mode-2 knowledge production” (Nowotny) characterised by the more open approach of transdisciplinarity allied to an extended peer review. Mode-2 knowledge production al...

New nursing roles: the experience of Scotland's consultant nurse/midwives.

AIM To describe career pathways of consultant nurses/midwives and identify postholders views on key factors in role initiation, development and progression to inform future development and appointment of nurse/midwife consultants in National Health Service Scotland. BACKGROUND Nurse/midwife consultants represent the highest levels of clinical practice. Given the Scottish Executive Health Depa...

Toward precision medicine: a new social contract?

earlier this year, illumina inc. and life technologies inc. each announced new products that can sequence a genome for $1,000 in a single day (1); approximately 3 million times cheaper than the cost during the Human Genome Project back in the early part of the last decade. Furthermore, cloud-based, big-data software companies are capable of using whole-and partial-genome sequencing to automate ...