The policy for bleeping doctors is laid out in the Hospital Doctors Bleep Policy. Section 7.4 outlines the policy for bleeping during teaching. Please note this does not cover every teaching opportunity as teaching is incorporated into the normal working day in some departments and thus a bleep policy is not required.
For attendance at designated teaching – times for which are detailed in Table 1 – discretion for bleeping NCHD’s should be used and minimised for emergency situations only.
Should an NCHD be required the following is the arrangement:
• To call a Medical SHO/Intern – Bleep 296 (Ward SHO On-call)
• To call a Medical Registrar – Bleep 302 (Registrar on Call)
• To call a Surgical Intern – Bleep Surgical Intern on-call
• To call a Surgical SHO – Bleep Surgical SHO on-call
• To call a Surgical Registrar – Bleep Surgical Registrar on-call
• To call an Orthopaedic Intern – Bleep Ortho Intern on-call
• To call an Orthopaedic SHO – Bleep 382 (Ortho SHO on-call)
• To call an Ortho Registrar – Bleep Ortho Registrar on-call
This policy applies to regular teaching sessions in the hospital including Grand Rounds, Teaching Thursday and Medical Journal Club.
The policy has been agreed with the Lead NCHDs and operates such that as few doctors as possible are required to leave teaching to answer bleeps while ensuring patient safety is maintained. The above information has been displayed on all wards. In addition, a series of audits will take place over the course of the year to ensure compliance.
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