Consultant in Acute Medicine and Short Stay - Glasgow, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

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CONSULTANT PHYSICIAN IN ACUTE MEDICINE

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QUEEN ELIZABETH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is a purpose built hospital that opened its doors in May 2015.

The hospital has 1109 beds and provides medical care to a population of around 700,000 people in west and south Glasgow.

The hospital provides the full range of medical and surgical services and many tertiary specialties including neurology, ENT and renal medicine.

Development of the QEUH has allowed inpatient and acute medical care from the Western Infirmary, Victoria Hospital and Southern General to be consolidated to a single site.

The presence of all the major specialities and the opportunities that this provides makes the QEUH an exciting and stimulating environment in which to work.

As examples, Respiratory Medicine hosts cystic fibrosis and pulmonary hypertension tertiary care teams, Gastroenterology has inflammatory bowel disease and hepatology subspecialty teams, the Infectious Diseases unit is a regional service for tropical diseases and has a major HIV service, Rheumatology has a Professorial Unit with major interests in inflammatory arthritidies and connective tissue disease, and the diabetes and endocrine unit provide all aspects of subspecialty care in diabetes, as well as providing regional genetics, cancer and neurosurgical endocrine services.

The QEUH also has one of largest critical care areas in the UK, with CCU, ITU and both medical and surgical HDU areas.

Applicants wishing to undertake duties within HDU could do so by substituting for other acute medicine work. Medical HDU is undertaken as single days from 8am-6pm.

All newly qualified Consultants are initially offered a minimum of 1 Core Supporting Professional Activity (SPA) which includes CPD, audit, clinical governance, appraisal, revalidation, job planning and management meetings.

This will be reviewed within 6 months (or earlier if required) of appointment and revised upwards if additional responsibilities are agreed.