Improving the lives of trainee doctors

摘要

We recognise many of the challenges mentioned by Whitehouse (Junior Doctors, 13 July), particularly that high quality rotas are not guaranteed by relying solely on the contractual framework. The Scottish government has developed a quality improvement process for the working environment of trainee doctors—the professionalism compliance analysis tool (PCAT). It has three domains: patient centred safe care, quality of training, and trainee health and wellbeing. The local team (trainee, training leads, and clinical service leads) gathers information based around these domains, which is used to produce a red-amber-green report, including qualitative data.