But I could answer the question Mr Jenkinson repeatedly posed – "Are you from Alexandra hospital?" And I did so in various, muttered ways, including, "No", "No, I'm not", "Once again, no" and, "Yes, I'm the senior registrar in the psychiatric unit.
Dr Mohamed Abdelrahim Elkhider was working as a registrar in the maternity unit of Stoke's City Hospital - now the Royal Stoke - when the incidents occurred, between 2012 and 2013.
On nine of these days, the specialist registrar in charge of the unit did not take primary responsibility for clerking any patients.
> -wrap-foot> A third of patients referred to nephrologists were referred via telephone to the registrar at the tertiary renal unit, while a third were referred for in-patient review by the outreach Nephrology Consultant.
During data collection, patients (controls) were allocated to doctors (cases) by the specialist registrar in charge of the unit (based on multiple factors, including patients' diagnoses and overall complexity, and the interests and experience of the available doctors), as normal; whenever practical, doctors do not clerk the same patient two days in a row.
Cases were performed by three consultant surgeons and two registrars in one moderate-sized unit (district general hospital, 700 beds).
As the postcode system was only first introduced in 1959, the full addresses from 1950 n=47077) were utilized for 1951 census year LGD units (Registrar General Office, 1956a, Registrar General Office, 1956b).
As any experienced unit clerk or patient registrar can tell you, the systemic flaws associated with health care inefficiency are buried deep within the culture of hospitals.
His asthma precluded military service and, after a period as house physician at Runwell hospital, he went to the Maudsley hospital (1947-50), where he survived the ordeal of being Professor Aubrey Lewis's first senior registrar on his newly-formed professorial unit.
The central unit is called the registrar.
