Consultants’ Conference 2017

I’ve spent today at our Annual Consultants’ Conference where senior doctors and surgeons from across the Trust, from a range of specialties, meet to discuss areas of interest such as workforce planning and plans for the future.

It’s been great to meet the clinicians that work on the front line to deliver outstanding care to our patients and hear about the fantastic services we provide. It’s also been really useful to understand more about where we have opportunities we can take advantage of and where we can, and must, improve going forward.

I met our own guardian of the galaxy, Mr Babar Elahi.    Copyright Marvel 2014

I had the pleasure to meet Mr Babar Elahi, our Guardian of Safe Working. What a motivated enthusiastic clinician who is genuinely committed to the health and wellbeing of our junior doctors in the work environment. He is very passionate about this role and his personal responsibilities.

Physicians Associate Adam Ryder spoke about the 350 physicians associates in the workforce in England which promoted discussion about how this role could be implemented more widely in Dudley. Nationally, this is being promoted to increase the use of this exciting and innovative role which adds stability to medical teams and has a broad knowledge of medicine in the face of hyper-specialisation. We have 12 physicians associates here in Dudley across medicine, emergency medicine and surgery. I look forward to meeting Adam again and seeing him in action in the Trust .