Ten junior doctors have been removed from a struggling hospital over concerns they were being left without adequate supervision on understaffed wards.
Health Education England (HEE) removed the 10 foundation year one doctors, all on a general medicine rota, from Weston General Hospital last month. The General Medical Council said the trust’s previous efforts to address the issues “have not been sufficient or sustainable”.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston Foundation Trust did not say which services HEE had removed the juniors from or what mitigations had been put in place. However, the trust told HSJ none of the positions concerned were from the hospital’s emergency department, where the GMC has already imposed conditions on juniors’ training.
HEE very rarely uses its power to withdraw trusts’ trainees. HSJ reported last June the regulator had only removed two posts at trusts under enhanced monitoring since the start of 2019.
William Oldfield, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston FT medical director, said in a statement to HSJ: “We recognise the seriousness of the step taken by HEE to temporarily suspend the training programme for a small number of junior doctors at Weston General Hospital.
”We are working to provide the assurance HEE require to allow this training to recommence, and in the meantime we have appropriately mitigated the impact on services at Weston.”
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Source: HSJ, 10 May 2021
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