PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Matthew Lewis
TI  - Consultant job planning for a 7-day service
AID  - 10.7861/futurehosp.4-1-33
DP  - 2017 Feb 01
TA  - Future Hospital Journal
PG  - 33--36
VI  - 4
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/33.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/4/1/33.full
SO  - Future Hosp J2017 Feb 01; 4
AB  - 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.