TY - JOUR T1 - Mind the gap: optimising medical registrar rota provision JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 62 LP - 62 DO - 10.7861/futurehosp.6-1-s62 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Katharine Fairbairn Y1 - 2019/03/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_1/62.abstract N2 - To determine if adjustment in the medical registrar weekend cover would reduce the number of rota gaps and subsequent locum spend.As RCP chief registrar at an acute general hospital, I was tasked with assessing the effect of implementing a change to the medical registrar on-call rota; incorporating the general medicine and elderly care weekend registrar cover into a single rota. Previously, medical and elderly care patients had separate registrars for weekend day cover.As … ER -