{"id":49059,"date":"2014-10-21T16:13:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=abf8d318711a73114d6dbcd03cde65c7"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:13:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:13:20","slug":"news-story-extra-accident-and-emergency-doctors-recruited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49059","title":{"rendered":"News story: Extra accident and emergency doctors recruited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Health Education England and the College of Emergency Medicine have overseen a recruitment drive to ensure a fully staffed A&amp;E in both the short and long term. <\/p>\n<p>The recruitment drive has led to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>101 more junior doctors specialising in emergency medicine than last year<\/li>\n<li>51 existing junior doctors staying in emergency medicine<\/li>\n<li>58 junior doctors transferring to emergency medicine<\/li>\n<li>50 experienced medics from India, UAE, Egypt and Malaysia starting on fixed-term contracts from November <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"health-secretary-jeremy-hunt-said\">Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We know some parts of the NHS are under pressure because of increased demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">That\u2019s why we\u2019re investing in a record number of A&amp;E doctors so patients continue getting treated quickly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 id=\"hee-director-of-education-and-quality-professor-wendy-reid-said\">HEE Director of Education and Quality Professor Wendy Reid said:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By working collaboratively across the whole health system and particularly with the College of Emergency Medicine, HEE has shown that we can raise the profile of a medical specialty and improve recruitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We have emphasised the importance of a multi professional approach to meet the needs of patients at a critical time in their lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>260 more A&amp;E doctors than last year have been recruited following an NHS recruitment drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}