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Episode with Mike Henley deputy chair of BMA Consultants Committee and Andrew Jordan discussing the background to the indicative ballot, next steps, why it matters to consultants and how you can get involved.

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• Are job planning objectives binding?
• Private work and additional NHS capacity?
• Can Trusts just cancel activities eg clinics without your agreement and PA’s > 10?
• Can your employer unilaterally reduce your PA’s to 9 from 10?
• What can you do about a non standard contract?
• What can you do in the work place to defend against cuts in extra contractual sessions?
• How do you cope with the ‘You’re lucky to be working in this Trust’?
• What happened in UHB when they tried to cut payment rates for doctors?
• What can clinical managers do if colleagues are being unreasonable during job planning?
• Can you be forced to use e-job planning software
• Does everyone in the department need to have exactly the same admin time for example?
• Do you have the right to see other people’s job plans

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Here are some round ups from the questions we had in the job planning webinar series, more will be follow!

Topics covered;

• My job plan is unchanged but suddenly I’m told it should be less (e-job planning software)?
• Are roles such as governance lead etc SPA and should they be absorbed into so called core SPA?
• Is SPA time pro-rata for less than full time consultants?
• What do you do about work done out of hours and out of job plan, e.g. spending an hour on a Sunday looking at the patients for Monday’s list?
• Should external duties like international guidance, college or specialty association work be paid for? Does it matter if I’m less than full time and it’s not on a day when I normally work?
• The never signed off job plan?
• New appointed consultants?
• What’s an LNC?