BMJ 2002;325:491 ( 31 August )

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Are trust doctors the new lost tribe?

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EDITORThe number of trust doctors (doctors in non-training grades) in the United Kingdom is rising as trusts try to meet both service and hours requirements and are unable to employ more doctors in training. The Department of Health has no code for trust doctors so its annual census cannot show how many there are.

We surveyed the human resource departments in each acute trust in Yorkshire by postal questionnaire; nine out of 10 replied. We found that the number of trust doctor posts has increased at least fivefold over the past four years, and the current number will more than double in the near future on the basis of trusts' stated plans (figure).

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We sent separate questionnaires to 63 of a sample of 81 trust doctors in the region; 36 (57%) replied. They were asked questions about educational provision and supervision, reasons for being in the post, previous clinical experience, career aspirations, . . . [Full text of this article]

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