Project Objectives

The project objectives were to redesign how tasks are carried out on the inpatient unit in order to better use the (reducing) hours of Junior Doctors in a manner which provides an improved training experience for them, and more effective care for patients, by embedding their work within that of a multiskilled inpatient team.

Both AWP and TEVW’s specific project objectives were to establish an Inpatient Continuity Team (a multidisciplinary team with overlapping skill sets) at each site.

The project aims were to:

• Reprofile the work of the SHOs and F2 doctors on the inpatient unit (henceforth referred to as SHOs for brevity) in a way that is compliant with WTD 2009
• Extend the range of work carried out by other professionals
• Integrate the SHO much more comprehensively into a multidisciplinary team
• Improve working practices, timeliness of response and communication, and hence patient safety and satisfaction, on the inpatient unit.