A few months acivir 400 mg Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, says this is why things in A&E need to change. While most hospitals employ an on-call consultant who can be contacted during the night, the majority have no consultants actually working on site out of hours. The concern – and, as someone who has worked in A&E for years, I can confirm this – is that juniors are scared of contacting the on-call consultant during the night. The problem is compounded by the fact that many of the middle-grade doctors who supervise the juniors during the shift are locums.
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