Rotation

Hospitals

Liverpool University Foundation Trust (Aintree / Royal / Broadgreen)

Rota details

On-calls are split into non-resident at the Royal/Broadgreen and resident at Aintree.

Aintree resident shifts are 13hr shifts. Trauma lists run from 8am-5pm. During the day, you will continue to perform your normal timetabled activity so training opportunities are protected. Nights are resident and are split into a 4 (Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday) and a 3 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday). After the 4 nights, Monday and Tuesday are rest days. After the 3 nights Thursday and Friday are rest days. Out of hours we are expected to attend the major trauma calls.

Non-Resident (NROC) shifts cover Broadgreen and Royal Liverpool hospital sites. The shifts run from 1500 - 0800. You will be on-site at Aintree from 1500 to 0000 to help with the acute take and see post-op / pre-op patients.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Ms H Stevenson, Mr D Chan, Mr M Kent, Mr R Parmar, Mr M Smith, Prof P Brownson, Mr Q Yin, Mr M Hughes
  • Hands - Mr D Brown, Mr N Walker, Mr M Owen, Mr G Cheung, Mr A Newton, Mr B Klass (Plastics)
  • Lower Limb - Mr C Kerin, Mr S Scott, Mr J Fountain , Mr P Carter, Mr D Melling (CD), Mr D Simmons, Mr H Rourke, Mr B Kapoor, Mr G Kumar, Mrs J Banks, Mr A Santini, Mr V Peter, Mr D Hillier, Mr S Kalra, Mr L Verstraten (Trainer of the Year), Mr S Ul-Islam
  • Foot and Ankle -  Mr A Molloy, Prof L Mason, Mr S Sirikonda, Mr A Singh, Mr A Islam, Ms L Cooper, Mr Lampridis
  • Trauma - Mrs S Scott, Mr R Gangadharan
  • Limb Reconstruction Unit: Mr B Narayan, Mr N Giotakis, Ms P Thorpe, Mr B Fischer, Mr W Harrison
  • Spine (Walton Centre): Mr M De Matas, Mr R Popa, Mr P Annis, Mr G Ampat, Mr S Thambiraj

Leave

Annual leave needs to be booked a minimum of 6 weeks in advance. Completed forms need to be emailed to medical staffing (DoctorsLeaveRequests@liverpoolft.nhs.uk) who will organise approval.

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital

Rota details

On-calls during the week are 24hr shifts with non-resident nights. The pattern is 1 in 7. Over a weekend, on-calls are 48hrs. Monday and Friday are rest days after working a weekend with afternoons scheduled as zero hours following a day time on-call. In the summer time there is a 4 week rolling rota with 2 trauma lists a week. The rest of the time trauma is performed on the emergency list. Registrars undertake two 3 month placements to allow breadth of training.

Consultants

  • Neuromuscular Disease - Mr A Bass, Mr D Wright, Mr R Walton
  • Limb Reconstruction - Mr L James, Mr C Prior, Mr N Peterson
  • Hips - Mr C Bruce, Mr D Perry, Mr H George, Mr C Talbot, Miss V Bucknall
  • Foot and Ankle - Mr J Widnall
  • Ponseti - Mr N Garg, Miss A Jeelani
  • Spines - Mr J Trivedi, Mr M Dematas, Mr N Davidson, Mr C Bruce, Mr Mohamed

Leave

Usually a minimum of 6 weeks’ notice is required when booking leave. Consultant approval as well as approval from the Senior Fellow is required. Senior fellow (Mr Baxter) - Ian.Baxter@alderhey.nhs.uk.

Arrowe Park (Wirral University Teaching Hospital)

Rota details

On-calls are split into 12hr shifts. Trauma lists run from 8am-8pm (except on a Sunday when they run until 5pm). Nights are resident and are split into a 3 (Saturday, Sunday and Monday) and a 4 (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). After the weekend nights the rest of the week is allocated rest days. There is a separate elective operating site at Clatterbridge Hospital which is approximately a 10 minute drive away.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Mr A Morris, Mr V Bhalaik, Mr S Robinson (CD), Mr S Brookes-Fazakerley, Mr D Hawkes, Mr N Ormsby
  • Lower Limb - Mr FA Carroll, Mr N Donnachie, Mr J Stamer, Mr M Ramakrishnan, Mr A Highcock, Mr R Parkinson, Mr G Thomas, Mr P Ralte, Mr J Viner, Mr Agarwal
  • Foot and Ankle - Mr M Hennessy, Ms G Jackson, Mr M Blomfield

Leave

Annual leave needs to be booked a minimum of 6 weeks in advance. The application forms can be found here. Completed forms need to be emailed to medical staffing (michellebennett1@nhs.net) who will organise approval.

Countess of Chester

Rota details

On-calls are 24 hour shifts. Typically the following day is a rest day. Weekends are generally 72 hours shifts. There is a dedicated orthopaedic SHO who acts as the first on-call.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Mr M Webb, Mr M Nixon, Mr P Kenyon, Mr S Sawalha
  • Lower Limb - Mr R Banin, Mr R Thonse, Mr W Harrison, Mr J Rao, Mr HJ Iqbal, Mr J Leong, Mr R Ashour
  • Foot and Ankle - Mr E Wood, Mr D Machin

Leave

Annual leave needs to be requested 6 weeks in advance. The forms are available from medical staffing. Approval for leave is by your consultant and then the rota co-ordinator.

Leighton – Crewe

Rota details

On-calls are 24hr shifts with the nights non-resident. You will continue to work the morning session the following day. The rest period is in the afternoon. Weekend on-calls run for 48hrs starting on a Saturday morning. Monday is the rest day following this. Trauma lists run daily from 8am to 5pm.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Mr N Hyder, Mr D Miller, Mr C Armitstead
  • Lower Limb - Mr D Pegg, Mrs K Luscombe, Mr S Duckett, Mr C Barton, Mr N Boyce Cam, Mr H Kazi, Mr N Farrar
  • Foot and Ankle - Mr S Barnes

Leave

Annual leave needs to be booked a minimum of 6 weeks in advance. Completed forms need to be emailed to departmental manager Sam Pennance (sam.pennance@mcht.nhs.uk) who will organise approval.

Macclesfield

Rota details

On-calls are 24hr shifts with the nights being non-resident. The rest period is the following day in the morning or afternoon, depending on which job you're doing. Weekend on-calls run for 72 hrs starting on a Friday morning. Monday is a rest day following this. Trauma lists run daily from 8am to 5pm and 8-1pm on weekends, after which you have to use the emergency theatre.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Mr M Waseem, Mr J Fischer, Mr R Bassi
  • Lower Limb - Mr K Barnes, Mr S Kershaw, Mr S Morapudi, Mr T Mahmud
  • Foot and Ankle - Mr N Fisher

Leave

Annual leave needs to be booked a minimum of 6 weeks in advance. Completed forms need to be submitted via an online form (which you will get access to when you join).

Warrington

Rota details

You spend 5 days on-call on site from 8am-8pm during the week, starting on Friday and then the Monday to Thursday the following week with the Friday as a zero day. Trauma theatre runs from 9am-5pm on these days. The weekend is 48hr non-resident on-call starting Saturday morning and you get Friday and Monday as a zero day. Nights on weekdays are non-resident 8pm-8am with telephone handover between SpRs. You are given a zero day the following day.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Mr N Shah, Mr W Marlow, Mr R Badge, Mr U Alao
  • Lower Limb - Mr G Stables, Mr R Sanger, Mr P Chandran, Mr A Acharya, Mr D Atkinson, Mr C Robb, Mr N Pradhan
  • Foot and Ankle - Miss S Prasad, Mr A Doorgakant

Leave

Annual and study leave needs to be booked a minimum of 6 weeks in advance. The annual leave application forms can be found here. Completed forms need to be emailed to the assistant CBU manager, Madha Ayub (m.ayub@nhs.net) who will organise approval. On-call swap forms can be found here.

Whiston (St Helens and Knowsley)

Rota details

On-calls are 24hr shifts with the nights non-resident. Weekend on-calls run for 48hrs starting on a Saturday morning. Trauma lists run daily from 8am to 5pm.

Consultants

  • Upper Limb - Mr S Lipscombe, Mr M Pullagura, Mr M Rathinam, Miss D Wharton
  • Lower Limb - Mr N Emms, Mr R Gudena, Mr C Jakaraddi, Mr R Pydisetty, Mr M Cartwright-Terry, Mr S Dhotare, Mr N Howard
  • Foot and Ankle - Mr S Morgan, Mr K Saldanha, Mr J Ballester

Leave

Annual leave needs to be submitted 6 weeks in advance. The application form can be found here. Completed forms need to be returned to the relevant secretary who will organise approval from the consultant rota coordinator.