Consultant in Elderly Medicine - Rotherham, United Kingdom - The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

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The Department The wards and outpatient facilities are housed in a purpose-built modern unit on the main hospital site. There are six other consultant physicians for Older Age medicine, each having a lead responsibility for a sub-specialty within the directorate: Dr F Al-Modaris: Falls/Syncope clinic Dr N V Athavale: Orthogeriatrics and Bone Health Dr A H Abdelhafiz: Lead Clinician and Consultant in Diabetes in the Elderly and Parkinsons disease Dr M Roycroft:

Frailty Dr Punnoose:
joint post with

Stroke Dr Ulley:
Palliative care There are specialist nurses attached to each of the subspecialties.

Intermediate care is well established in Rotherham and the directorate works in close collaboration with primary care and social care colleagues to promote the use of intermediate care facilities in the community.

Other medical Staff in Healthcare for Older People 1.One Specialty Doctor 2.ST3 (Specialist Registrar 2 posts.


There are two career grade registrars in Elderly Medicine on a training rotation within the North Trent Deanery 3.ST, F2 and F1 Total of 10 posts at these grades The Post The post is based at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.

The Healthcare for Older People Clinical Service Unit has a bed base over three acute general medicine wards. Emergency admissions are accepted and assessed initially in the integrated Medical Admissions Unit for the Division of Medicine.

The out of hours on call rota in integrated with other General Physicians and currently works on 1 in 16 basis to support the Emergency Medicine consultants and trainee doctors rota, providing specialist advice and ward rounds on call.

To provide a consultant medical service for inpatient and outpatient services and for the proper functioning of the department.

Secretarial Support & Office Accommodation The post holder will be allocated office accommodation and will be provided with secretarial support.

A personal computer with access to both the Trust internal IT systems and the Internet will be provided.
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