Supposing that the evidence did suggest that rearranging consultants' hours in order to spread them over a seven-day week would be beneficial, the implications of such a shift would be immense.
However, Dr Dean, who has himself supplemented his main income from Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust with private work, writes that any time spent in the private sector deprives the NHS of consultants' hours, and warned that private practice creates "a perverse incentive" to increase NHS waiting times.
They got a pretty rough going over, not helped by the disclosure by consultants, hours before the hearing, of a claimed spike in mortality statistics at Ysbyty Gwynedd.
In Sect. 2 of the spreadsheet, reporting radiologists were asked to record the number of Consultant Radiologist hours per week devoted in their department to a variety of activities not amenable to easy case-by-case counting listed in Table 4.
So Byrne hired a HR lawyer and a diversity consultant and spent hours researching and writing a set of policies for the kind of company he wanted to build.
Sixty-two percent of patients were first seen by a consultant within 12 hours of admission, with a range from 23 minutes to 26 hours.
Within three years all patients admitted as an emergency to a hospital ward will see a consultant within 14 hours, and those already in hospital will be reviewed by the senior level doctors every 24 hours.
Lincoln's Web site will also have a consultant available 24 hours a day for live discussions about the products and to streamline the buying process.
Another is the JDC's belief that the government's promised introduction of a seven-day NHS in urgent and emergency care services by 2020 will lead to junior doctors – all medics below the level of consultant – working longer hours in future for the same, or less, money.
These include: All emergency admissions to be seen by a consultant within 14 hours.
