ON-CALL ACTIVITY AND EMERGENCY SURGERY Emergency surgery is located on the Heartlands hospital site although appointees may also provide out of hours cover for Solihull hospital. This is a busy emergency surgery department dealing with a high-volume of theatre cases which provides good opportunities for training. There are Consultants available on call for both Upper Gastrointestinal and Colorectal surgery 24/7. At registrar level there are on-call responsibilities for both emergency admissions and CEPOD theatres with these roles being supported by two individual registrars during daytime hours.
Overnight there is a second registrar available on site to support the primary night registrar until approximately 0200. Ward cover is provided by individual base teams. In general JSDs will be aligned to the same Consultants during on-call activities which helps to accelerate development.