%0 Journal Article %A Matthew Lewis %T Consultant job planning for a 7-day service %D 2017 %R 10.7861/futurehosp.4-1-33 %J Future Hospital Journal %P 33-36 %V 4 %N 1 %X At a time of competing demands on the National HealthService (NHS), systematic consultant job planning is necessary to ensure that limited resources are being used productively, especially with the prospect of expanded 7-day services. Based on a presentation to the Royal College of Physicians Annual Conference in March 2016, a broad overview of job planning is presented, together with more specific examples relating to acute medicine and gastroenterology/general medicine. %U https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/futurehosp/4/1/33.full.pdf