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Publication, Part of

Consultant Contract Survey - 2006

Official statistics, Survey
Publication Date:
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Country, Strategic Health Authorities
Date Range:
01 Nov 2004 to 31 Oct 2005

Summary

This report is based on a survey issued by the Information Centre in October 2005. The survey, is similar to the one issued in 2004, which was designed by the Consultant Contract Implementation Team of the Modernisation Agency. Analysis of returns was carried out by the Workforce Analysis Team. The actual survey form is included in Appendix A.

Highlights

  • 87.1 per cent of consultants had signed up to the new consultant contract by 29 October 2005. This represents an increase since 2004, where the sign-up level was at 76.9 per cent
  • the mean number of programmed activities per consultant job plan was 10.83, with an average of 7.83 allocated for direct clinical care
  • 51.9 per cent of consultants had between 0 and 1 programmed activities per job plan allocated to unscheduled on-call work
  • 40.8 per cent of consultants had between 0 and 1 programmed activities per job plan allocated to scheduled on-call work
  • 68.3 per cent of consultants were in receipt of category A on-call payments and 15 per cent were in receipt of category B on-call payments.

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