TY - JOUR T1 - Do junior doctors at the Manchester Royal Infirmary know how to refer inpatients to medical specialties? JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 57 LP - 57 DO - 10.7861/futurehealth.6-2-s57 VL - 6 IS - Suppl 2 AU - Sabine Jamal AU - Catriona Boyd AU - Basim Ali AU - Elinor Shuttleworth Y1 - 2019/06/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/Suppl_2/57.abstract N2 - Due to the structure of training posts, junior doctors frequently rotate through different trusts. Although most trusts conduct induction periods to mitigate this, many junior doctors struggle to perform everyday tasks such as referring their patients to other medical specialties. This was particularly problematic at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (MRI) where no formal information was provided outlining the referral system. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that each inpatient specialty has a unique method of referrals. All these systems, combined with a lack of information provided, meant that doctors were wasting significant amounts of time every day trying … ER -