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IN CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY
The Oxford Deanery is part of NHS South of England which comprises South
Central, South West and South East Coast Strategic Health Authorities. The Oxford
Deanery is responsible for the training of some 1500 trainees.
The Oxford Deanery is a relatively small deanery with a defined geographical area
which serves as a single unit of application.
The posts on this rotation have been approved for Specialist Training by the Royal
College of Pathologists. The posts attract National Training Numbers and provide
training towards a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT).
The Postgraduate Dean has confirmed that this post has the necessary educational
and staffing approvals.
The programme is based in the Oxford University Hospitals Trust, and will include
clinical duties in any of the four hospitals in this Trust (the John Radcliffe Hospital,
the Churchill Hospital, the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, and the Horton General
Hospital in Banbury. In general, trainees will be based in the Department of Clinical
Biochemistry in the John Radcliffe Hospital, but may be asked to attend
Trust Information
The main group of teaching hospitals is based in Oxford. These hospitals are: the
John Radcliffe (JR, 643 beds), the Churchill Hospital (383 beds), the Nuffield
Orthopaedic Centre (NOC, 196 beds), the Littlemore Hospital (371 beds), the
Warneford Hospital (104 beds). The JR, Churchill and NOC are part of the Oxford
University Hospitals Trust, and the Littlemore and Warneford Hospitals are part of the
Oxfordshire Mental Health NHS Trust. Horton General Hospital in Banbury is part of
the Oxford University Hospitals Trust and is a District General Hospital with 220
beds.
The JR is the main acute hospital in Oxford, and has general medicine and surgery,
maternity, paediatrics (in the Childrens Hospital), and specialties such as
ophthalmology, neurology and neurosurgery (in the West Wing), whilst the Churchill
Hospital has many specialist units such as oncology, clinical haematology, chest
medicine, haemophilia, dermatology, and endocrinology and diabetes. The
Littlemore and Warneford Hospitals form the main centres of the psychiatric service.
There are also eleven major country towns with Community Hospitals. Many of the
Regional Specialties are provided within the Oxford hospitals.
The Clinical Biochemistry Department has laboratories on three sites (JR, Churchill,
Horton Hospital), receives approximately 7,000,000 requests per year and performs
approximately 6 million tests per year. It offers a regional service for endocrinology,
for antenatal screening for neural tube defects and Down syndrome, and for
neonatal screening for PKU, congenital hypothyroidism and MCADD.
The laboratory at the John Radcliffe Hospital provides routine and emergency
services together with the postgraduate teaching and research laboratories of the
Department. Dr Brian Shine and Professor Jonathan Kay, Consultant Chemical
Pathologists are based here. The Biochemistry Laboratory suite occupies 1,110
square metres. A new laboratory combining Haematology and Biochemistry operates
from 8:30 to 18:00 on weekdays at the Churchill Hospital. The laboratory at the
Horton Hospital provides routine and emergency services.
Analytical equipment includes a Siemens track system with 3 Centaurs and 3 Advia
2400 instruments at the JR, 1 Advia 2400 at the Churchill, and 2 Advia 2400s and 1
Centaur at the Horton Hospital, 1 DPC Immulite 2000, and an AutoDelfia
immunoassay system. Other equipment includes a Konelab 30, 2 Waters HPLC
systems, and three Tandem Mass Spectrometry systems.
The Laboratory is CPA accredited. The laboratory at the JR is open 24 hours a day.
It is staffed by a medical graduate or scientist from 0830h to 2100h during the
working week and 0830h to 1300h on Saturday. The laboratory at the Horton
Hospital is open 24 hours a day. The Churchill laboratory is open from 0830h to
1900h on weekdays.
The laboratory data-handling is fully computerised, except for the neonatal screening
laboratory. The system is written in M and operates on a Hewlett-Packard
minicomputer. Other computing facilities include many networked microcomputers
used for analyser control, and personal computers for data analysis, word
processing, statistics and graphics.
Scientific meetings within the department include a Journal Club, a clinical meeting,
and an analytical and quality assurance review (all weekly). medical staff also runs a
series of case presentations for all laboratory staff. Many departments of the
hospitals run scientific meetings, which our staff may attend. There is a weekly
Grand Round during term time.
Improved methods for evaluating early deterioration of renal function in patients with
diabetes mellitus
Comparison of plasma and urine 5-HIAA levels in patients with suspected and known
carcinoid tumours
As well as the teaching of Undergraduate and Clinical Medical Student courses, the
Department has an active research programme, holding more than 2.2m per
annum (11m in total) of research grants from Research Councils and charities. It
was rated 5 in the most recent HEFCE research assessment.
Currently there are active research teams in areas including the resistance of
tumours to chemotherapy, the genetic basis of mental retardation, gene therapy for
cystic fibrosis, microbial genetics, genetics of skull and limb malformations, the
biology of stem cells, myelodysplasia and myeloid leukaemia, tumour angiogenesis,
immunodiagnostics and malaria.
Research groups
The Oxford Medical Informatics group is based in the NHS Department of Clinical
Biochemistry and is involved in a number of research projects including: decision
support, communications, data management, electronic data exchange and
messaging.
Research opportunities exist within other research groups, including that run by
Professor R.V. Thakker in the Nuffield Department of Medicine. This group carries
out research into the molecular basis of endocrine and metabolic conditions, such as
parathyroid disorders affecting calcium metabolism.
There are also links with the Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford Centre for
Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and the Botnar Research Centre, Oxford
University Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences. There is, therefore, an active
programme of seminars and research visitors.
Duties of Post
a) Laboratory Responsibilities:
Duties as appropriate to the grade of the post under the direction of the consultants
responsible including:
Attendance at relevant Scientific and Medical meetings inside and outside the
Hospital including the possibility of structured courses, such as day release MSc
courses where relevant as can be arranged to fit in with training and service needs.
On-call shift
Compensatory Time should be taken off in lieu of extra time worked as a result of the
daytime duty rota so that the number of core hours is not exceeded. The number of
hours worked should be recorded. Staff should try not to accumulate Compensatory
Time.
b) Clinical Responsibilities
c) Teaching Responsibilities
Hours The working hours for junior doctors in training are now 48-hours (or 52-
hours if working on a derogated rota) averaged over 26 weeks (six months). Doctors
in training also have an individual right to opt-out if they choose to do so, but they
cannot opt-out of rest break or leave requirements. However, the contracts for
doctors in training make clear that overall hours must not exceed 56 hours in a
week (New Deal Contract requirements) across all their employments and any
locum work they do.
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Pay you should be paid monthly at the rates set out in the national terms and
conditions of service for hospital medical and dental staff and doctors in public health
medicine and the community health service (England and Wales), the TCS, as
amended from time to time. The payscales are reviewed annually. Current rates of
pay may be viewed at http://www.nhsemployers.org/PayAndContracts/Pay
%20circulars/Pages/PayCircularsMedicalandDental.aspx Part time posts will be paid
pro-rata
Pay supplement depending upon the working pattern and hours of duty you are
contracted to undertake by the employer you should be paid a monthly additional
pay supplement at the rates set out in paragraph 22 of the TCS. The current
payscales may be viewed at http://www.nhsemployers.org/PayAndContracts/Pay
%20circulars/Pages/PayCircularsMedicalandDental.aspx . The pay supplement is
not reckonable for NHS pension purposes. The pay supplement will be determined
by the employer and should be made clear in their offer of employment and subject
to monitoring.
Pension you will be entitled to join or continue as a member of the NHS Pension
Scheme, subject to its terms and rules, which may be amended from time to time. If
you leave the programme for out of programme experience you may have a gap in
your pension contributions. More information can be found at
http://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/pensions
Annual Leave your entitlement to annual leave will be five or six weeks per annum
depending on your previous service/incremental point, as set out in paragraphs 205-
206 of the TCS. The TCS may be viewed at
http://www.nhsemployers.org/PAYANDCONTRACTS/JUNIORDOCTORSDENTISTS
GPREG/Pages/DoctorsInTraining-JuniorDoctorsTermsAndConditions150908.aspx
Notice you will be required to give your employer and entitled to receive from them
notice in accordance with paragraphs 195-196 of the TCS.
Study Leave the employer is expected to offer study leave in accordance with
paragraphs 250-254 of the TCS. Local policy and procedure will be explained at
induction.
Relocation expenses the employer will have a local policy for relocation expenses
based on paragraphs 314 315 of the TCS and national guidance at
http://www.nhsemployers.org/PAYANDCONTRACTS/JUNIORDOCTORSDENTISTS
GPREG/Pages/DoctorsInTraining-JuniorDoctorsTermsAndConditions150908.aspx.
You are advised to check eligibility and confirm any entitlement with the employer
before incurring any expenditure.
Health and Safety all employers have a duty to protect their workers from harm.
You should be advised by the employer of local policies and procedures intended to
protect your health and safety and expected to comply with these.
Disciplinary and grievance procedures the employer will have local policies and
procedures for dealing with any disciplinary concerns or grievances you may have.
They should advise you how to access these, not later than eight weeks after
commencement of employment.
December 2011