(This guidance supports the National Panel List published separately)
May 2005
ISBN 0 7559 2562 9
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CONTENTS
The National Panel of Specialists
Role of the National Panel of Specialists
Selection of national panellists
Planning the appointments process
Concerns about an AAC/ AC
National panellists and employers
Fees and travelling expenses
The National Panel List
PART I General Guidance for Advisory Appointments Committee ( AACs) and other Appointments Committees ( ACs)
Impartiality
Constitution of committees
Role of the chairperson
Training
Additional attendees
Confidentiality
Roles and responsibilities
The appointment procedures:
(i) Preparation of and agreement on a job description and person specification
(ii) Advertising posts
(iii) Short-listing of candidates for interview
(iv) Interview of candidates
(v) AAC/ AC report and recommendations on suitability of individuals
(vi) Decision by employing body
Pre-employment checks
PART II Appointing to the consultant or equivalent grades
General
Constitution of the Advisory Appointments Committee
Other information
Eligibility of specialist registrars for consultant appointments - "the six month rule"
Eligibility of overseas candidates
Appointment to posts in public health: consultants and specialists
Constitution of the AAC
Constitution of the AAC for specialists in Public Health
Appointment of medical directors
Exempted appointments
Academic and research staff - honorary contracts
Transfer of doctors or dentists holding honorary NHS consultant appointments to substantive paid NHS appointments
Appointments to consultant or grade C clinical scientist posts
Appointments following redundancy or reorganisation of services
Locum appointments
Locum consultant and "acting-up" appointments for specialist registrars
Limited duration consultant appointments
PART III Other appointments
Appointment of specialist registrars
Role of postgraduate deans
The appointments committee for specialist registrar posts
Appointment of honorary specialist registrars
The appointments committee for honorary specialist registrars
Appointment of specialist registrars: "locum appointments - training ( LATs)"
Appointment of associate specialists
Appointment to the staff grade
Conditions of appointment
Advertising staff grade posts
The Appointments Committee for a Staff Grade Post
Appointment of hospital practitioners
The Appointments Committee for Hospital Practitioner Posts
Contacts
Annex ANational Health Service (Appointment of Consultant) Scotland Regulations 1993
This Guidance aims to assist both Health Boards and members of The National Panel of Specialists. It addresses appointments of staff to grades that ordinarily require a member of The National Panel of Specialists. These fall into two groups: - consultant and equivalent grades. These are appointments made under the NHS (Appointment of Consultants) (Scotland) Regulations 1993 where 2 members of the National Panel are required.
Throughout this Guidance the statutory appointments committee is referred to as the Advisory Appointments Committee ( AAC) - other grades where participation of members of The National Panel of Specialists is recommended by the Scottish Executive. These include:
- University appointments for honorary consultants (2 National Panellists);
- Specialist Register (1 National Panellist);
- Associate Specialist (1 National Panellist);
- Staff grade (1 National Panellist);
- Hospital Practitioner (1 National Panellist);
- Clinical Scientist (1 National Panellist);
- Senior Non-consultant Dental Officer (1 National Panellist).
Throughout this Guidance these non-statutory appointments committees are referred to as Appointments Committees ( AC) |
- The following guidance is revoked:"Revised General Guidance on Appointment Procedures; The National Panel"NHSHDL (2003) 23.
- The following guidance remains extant:
Grade | Guidance/circular | Reference |
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Staff Grade | Hospital Medical and Dental Staff: Pay and Conditions of Service - The New Hospital Staff Grade | NHS Circular No 1989 ( PCS) 4 |
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Associate Specialist | Hospital Medical and Dental Staff: Pay and Conditions of Service - Criteria for Appointment to the Associate Specialist Grade | NHS Circular No 1990 ( PCS) 2 and NHS Circular PCS ( DD) 1993/3 |
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Locum appointments | The Code of Practice in the Appointment and Employment of Locum Doctors | NHS Circular PCS ( DD) (1998) 1 |
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Medical appointments: Associate Specialist, SCMO, Staff Grade (when a trust's Staff grade/consultant ratio is over 10%), Limited Specialist and SHO grades Dentistry appointments; Consultant Associate Specialist, Staff Grade (when a trust's Staff grade/consultant ratio is over 10%) and SHO grades, and senior posts in the community dental service | Guidance on Procedures for Obtaining Approval to the Establishment of New Medical and Dental Posts; - Scottish Advisory Committee on the Medical Workforce - Hospital and Community Health Services Sub-committee ( SACMW- HCHS)
- Advisory Committee for Dental Establishments ( ACDE)
| NHSMEL (1998) 3 |
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Medical Director | Guidance on the Appointment of NHS Trust medical Directors | NHSMEL (1998) 13 |
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Doctors and dentists in training | The Recruitment of Doctors and Dentists in Training | NHSMEL (1999) 36 |
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Specialist Registrar | A Guide to Specialist Registrar Training("The "Orange Guide") | The Department of Health, the Welsh Office, DHSS Northern Ireland and the Scottish Office, 1998 |
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Foundation Training | Operational Framework for Foundation Training | Scottish Executive 2005 |
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Hospital Practitioner | Hospital Medical and Dental Staff: The Hospital Practitioner Grade | NHS Circular 1979 ( PCS) 20 and NHSPCS ( DD) 1994/3 |
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Remuneration of Biochemists, Physicists and Other Scientists Employed by Health Authorities | Clinical Scientists | The Department of Health 1990, AL ( SP) 1/90 |
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