What can she do to appeal against this as basically it will be un workable for us. Or if she tries to do some thing about it will this risk her future career prosepects?
Apparently the guy who sets the rota does not care for peoples personal circumstances… but I know obviously this will effect other people too not just my wife.
Which specialty? In mine Yorks and the Humber Deanery is subdivided into W Yorks (based round Leeds)/S Yorks (Sheffield)/N&E Yorks (Hull & York). It would seem unlikely that a W Yorks rotation would send anyone to E Yorks; has she actually got an N&E Yorks rotation?
The person responsible for the placements is the Training Programme Director; most of the time they do try & take into account people’s needs & preferences; in Yorkshire the overwhelming majority want to work in W or S Yorks so someone will always be disappointed.
It may be worth approaching the TPD if the placements haven’t been finalised to see if there is any flex in the system; if they have been done, then I suspect you will either need to find someone to swap with (as this is within the same Deanery this may be permissible) or demonstrate a change in circumstances and wait for a slot to come up in W Yorks. The nuclear option is to approach the `Regional Adviser or, failing that, the Postgraduate Dean but there is no guarantee of success with that, and it may rather burn her bridges with the TPD, especially in a small specialty.
I think any reasonable person would see that you as a family are simply unable to keep constantly moving around to her ‘postings’.
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. In order to balance the training needs of the individual (you can’t do all your training in one hospital, as some subspecialties are present in one hospital but not another) & service needs of the NHS there will always be movement. Someone will always end up with an evil commute.
FunkyDunc – my email address is in my profile if you want to discuss this further offline.
Andy
DOI – until recently (currently OOP) Regional junior doctors’ committee BMA rep; ST6 in Anaesthesia.