TY - JOUR T1 - Empowering trainees to raise concerns: a formalised structure for reporting unsafe staffing levels in a university teaching hospital JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 188 LP - 188 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s188 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Aarij S Siddiqui Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/188.abstract N2 - To create a protocol for trainees to follow when staffing shortages occur which have the potential to compromise patient safety.Frequent on-call rota gaps had left trainees working with understaffed teams. Trainees raised concerns to the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) associate college tutors and the RCP chief registrar that they were not aware how to formally raise concerns regarding unsafe staffing levels, and were uncertain how to escalate concerns out of hours.We investigated the organisation of the … ER -