Welcome to your new hospital

August is a month of mass medical migration. Postgraduate doctors are scattered across UK hospitals, and for some, this is their first experience of a workplace as a professional or even their first experience of working in a new country. For others, they leave one hospital after a night shift and find themselves expected to magically teleport themselves to another hospital’s compulsory induction that same day. It seems perverse to change a large proportion of the workforce all on the same day and human resource departments are frequently overwhelmed in a predictable “capacity demand incident.” Permanent staff, who know how to get things done, become even more valuable in August.First impressions matter, and hospitals aren’t always good at this. Hotels know that quick and friendly check in and check out times are disproportionately related to guest satisfaction and are often very slick. In a hospital, knowing how to park, get…
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