TY - JOUR T1 - Medical workforce review using the RCP guidance on safe medical staffing demonstrating wide variation of workload to workforce ratio between medical teams within a single trust JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 44 LP - 45 DO - 10.7861/futurehealth.6-2-s44 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Thomas Weetman AU - Deanne Bell AU - Gareth Watts AU - Fang En Sin Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_2/44.abstract N2 - The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) published guidance on safe medical staffing in 2018.1 Its recommendations were derived by estimating the workload generated by each clinical activity.In our trust, there is a perception of a high junior doctor workload and an imbalance of workload between teams, which can compromise patient safety, work efficiency and training quality. Acting on this, we aim to: compare the workload per tier 1 (pre-registrar) doctor between medical teamscompare the trust's tier 1 staffing level against the RCP benchmark, focusing on staffing of medical wards in-hours.Twenty medical teams across Brighton and Sussex University Healthcare Trust … ER -