Surgical On Call Commitments

5.1 How many consultant surgeons participate in the general surgical emergency rota?

5.2 What are the subspecialties of the consultants on the general surgical emergency rota?

	Yes	No
a. Colorectal

b. Upper GI

c. General

d. Vascular

e. Breast

f. Endocrine

5.3 How many surgical tiers cover the emergency general surgical workload for each timeframe?
This includes consultants, fellows, middle & SAS grades, core trainees and foundation doctors. Include all those whether resident or non-resident. If the number drops e.g. at 9pm, enter the lesser value. Enter the daily figures, not the weekly totals. See "help" for more information?

	Monday-Friday	Saturday-Sunday
08:00 to 17:59

18:00 to 23:59

00:00 to 07:59

5.4 For each tier, please indicate whether at least one individual is free from all elective and non-acute commitments (e.g. elective lists, outpatient clinics) for the whole period whilst they are covering emergency general surgical workload: (Please refer to definitions if clarification is required)

5.5 Please indicate whether any of these tiers cover more than one hospital site when providing cover for emergency general surgical cases?

5.6

	YES	NO
a. Are emergency patients that still require assessment and treatment at the end of the consultant's period of on-call retained by the admitting consultant?

b. If No, do you have a policy requiring consultant surgeons to formally hand over to one and other in person?

c. Is there a formal handover time built into the shifts for others?