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Angus Wallace

Angus Wallace

Orthopaedist

Aug 10, 2026

GailHOST
20:12
Yeah.
20:12
There are no foundation year doctors there.
20:17
When foundation year doctors were introduced in 2004, uh, 2005, they were introduced because of the European Working Time Directive, and part of the incentive was they didn't have enough young doctors to man the hospitals at night, every night, because they insisted on having a most junior doctor on call in the wards at night.
20:46
And therefore, they have produced a system which I do not believe now fulfills what doctors need.

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GailHOST
26:55
It's like, no, that's not what it's supposed to do.
26:58
I'm really passionate about it, and thanks for bringing it up, Thandi.
27:03
And the thing that I was most impressed with, with changing technology was what has happened at Leicester and Peterborough, where the, uh...
27:17
Will Monaghan, who has been, uh, installing the new patient record system, um, before he did that, went round the hospital observing the problems that people were having, not just in doctors, but nurses, physiotherapists, a whole lot.

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