The training programme included a range of providers from junior staff to those who were experienced.
Small group and individual semi-structured interviews were held with a range of senior and junior staff drawn from each ward in both years to elicit their views and experience of providing nutritional care for older people in hospital.
Interviews were carried out with Chairs of M&M meetings (n=5) as well as a range of consultants (n=6), junior doctors (n=6), nursing staff (n=7) who attended the meetings, and some who were not invited, to capture a wide range of experiences and views.
The 1983 Greek NHS Act again required doctors to have a heavily disputed exclusive full-time status in their public sector employment; correspondingly the hospital doctors' salaries were raised so that seniority was favoured – at an average of 112%, or at a range of 11% for junior doctors to almost 211% for directors.
However, there are also some concerns that early commitment may reduce junior doctors' flexibility in trying out a range of specialties at the junior level before making a final choice [ 10].
One consisted of junior staff from a range of professional backgrounds, including ward nurses, junior doctors, nursing assistants and other staff without professional qualifications, and basic grade occupational therapists (OTs).
A range of postgraduate scholarships and junior professorships have been introduced to raise Germany's appeal for young scientists, including schemes such as the German Research Foundation's Emmy Noether Programme and the BioFuture Programme.
In doing so, we sampled a range of staff groups including both junior and senior nurses and doctors, allied health professionals and administrative staff.
The sample also included a range of levels of seniority, from junior and newly qualified nurses (n=4) and clinical nurses (n=10), to more senior coordinators and Nurse Unit Managers (n=6).
The financial scenario brightens somewhat when a postdoc secures their first position as a junior faculty member the key difference being that a range of benefits is typically available to junior faculty that is not available to graduate students or postdocs.
