Consultant in Critical Care Medicine

We have been assigned by one of the UK's more prestigious NHS Trusts to help them recruit a Consultant in Critical Care Medicine on either a Substantive or an NHS Fixed Term basis for 12 months to join their successful Medicine department.

Our client's Critical Care department includes an Intensive Care (ICU) and a High Dependency (HDU). ICU has a total of 8 individual rooms with single beds and 2 large rooms with 2 beds each. All rooms in ICU are negative pressure rooms. HDU has 9 beds including 3 single rooms and two large 3 bedded areas. All beds in the Critical Care Complex are equipped with full monitoring facilities and a central monitoring station on each side.

The Critical Care Complex admits close to 1000 patients per year. Median length of stay for the unit is 3.4(1.8-6.9) days. Bed occupancy is more than 90% for majority of time. Turnover of patients is really high hence the unit is a very busy. Of the all the referrals over 90% are from medical specialti...