TY - JOUR T1 - How much of a doctor’s on-call shift is spent searching for equipment and paperwork? A mixed methods study JF - Future Hospital Journal JO - Future Hosp J SP - s1 LP - s1 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.3-2-s1 VL - 3 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Heather Milne AU - Miles Rogers AU - Jesse Blum AU - James Pinchin AU - John Blakey Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/3/Suppl_2/s1.abstract N2 - ‘Out-of-hours’ care (anything outwith 5pm–9am Monday–Friday) accounts for 75% of the NHS working year and recent health policy debates suggest that workforce planning at these times may need revising. However, informed decisions are difficult without detailed information on how doctors’ time is spent. Most doctors in hospital ‘out of hours’ (on call) are in training grades. These junior doctors anecdotally report that time for direct patient care is compromised by organisational inefficiencies such as time wasted searching for equipment … ER -