Centralising human resources paperwork would improve rotational training

Best’s article highlights eight ways in which rotational training could be improved.1 I strongly support the last point: centralising contracts for specialty trainees to minimise the financial and other administration associated with new posts.I have recently completed my 14th set of human resources (HR) paperwork since I graduated over 11 years ago. This involves providing documents to prove my identity and right to work in the UK, a Disclosure and Barring Service check, payroll paperwork, and an occupational health screen. This is time consuming, often still heavily paper based, and sometimes involves taking physical documents to the new rotation during work hours, which almost inevitably needs to be done on a day off. Switching payroll every hospital change means that pay or tax codes are nearly always initially incorrect, and at three of my last four trusts I have either not been paid for at least the first month or…
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