Whilst I agree Mike, residents should be viewed as their own workforce and be given some agency instead of being infantilised at every level.
E.g. recruitment - I personally can’t think of a single example where a resident doctor, of any seniority, has been on a recruitment panel.
The GOSW interviews are as close as they come and it’s often tokenistic.
Nurses recruit nurses.
Physios recruit physios.
Radiographers recruit radiographers.
Managers recruit managers.
Consultants recruit consultants.
GPs recruit GPs.
Yet managers, consultants and GPs are the ones recruiting residents.
They then also have every say about residents - where they go to work, how often they rotate, when they’re allowed to take leave etc etc.
There is no agency.
Residents are so infantilised that they aren’t even trusted to play a part in recruitment of themselves as a workforce group.
Every single operational part of
@NHSE_WTE relating to residents should be ran directly by a resident, not a dean/ a manager.
The same principle applies locally too - I’m sure the needle would shift and we’d see less toxic behaviour if rota coordinators were line managed by a resident.
Because after all; rotas for nurses are managed by nurses, rotas for consultants are managed by consultants, rotas for physios are managed by physios. Rotas for residents are managed by anyone but the residents. And on it goes…