Appendix C – Individual placement description
North Western Foundation School
Tameside General Hospital Foundation Programme
Individual Placement Description
All information to be completed by the LEP.
Placement
There are 8 four-month FY1 placements within the
Department of General Surgery. Each of the eight
consultant general surgeons is a Clinical Supervisor
for one FY1 trainee.
The department
24 bed Surgical Unit. 8 Consultants covering breast,
vascular, upper GI and colorectal surgery.
General Surgery in a District General Hospital is a
busy specialty which offers exposure to a variety of
elective and emergency general surgical conditions
so there are ample opportunities for Foundation
Trainees to obtain skills and competencies required
to complete Foundation Year 1 training programme.
There are opportunities to perform practical tasks and
procedures such as: urinary catheter placement, NGtube placement, ECG, arterial blood gases, incision
and drainage procedures, surgical drains removal etc.
The type of work to expect and
learning opportunities
Your responsibilities will be mainly to look after
elective and emergency inpatients but each
Foundation Trainee is encouraged to attend clinics,
multidisciplinary meetings and operating theatres
where you can assist at surgery and learn skin
suturing.
Some surgical patients have serious life threatening
conditions and the Foundation Trainees will learn how
to recognise and manage critically ill patient and how
to deal with dying patients.
Tameside General Hospital
Where the placement is based
Clinical Supervisor(s) for the Consultants (alphabetical order):
Mr PK Arora consultant general and breast surgeon
placement
Mr Benhamida consultant general and upper GI
surgeon
Mr S Ellenbogen consultant general, laparoscopic
and breast surgeon
Mr K Mohammed consultant general and colorectal
surgeon
Mr CP Pratap consultant general and vascular
surgeon
Mr KH Siddiqui consultant general and colorectal
surgeon
Mr M Solkar consultant general and colorectal
surgeon
Mr L Wolowczyk consultant general and vascular
surgeon
Main duties of the placement
Typical working pattern in this
placement
Employer information
Attend ward rounds and look after ward patients.
Clerk elective admissions. See GP surgical referrals
in A and E when on call
In addition to their elective sub-specialty interest all
consultants treat emergency general surgical patients
and each FY1 will have on-call commitments but all
placements are compliant with EWTD. At this early
stage of your career you will not work at night.
0800-1600 Monday to Friday. 7 day on call period
0800-2100 every 8 weeks. Ward cover Monday to
Thursday 0800-2100 once every 8 weeks
Tameside NHS Foundation Trust serves the needs of
approximately 250,000 people who live both within an
industrialised area including the 9 towns which make
up the Local Authority of Tameside in Greater
Manchester. However, Glossop, with its population of
approximately 28,000 is part of Derbyshire High Peak
Borough Council, which provides the challenges of a
more rural community.
The Trust is based at Tameside General Hospital
which is located in Ashton under Lyne.
The hospital has 549 acute beds on the hospital site,
excluding Mental illness, which is managed by the
neighbouring Pennine Care Mental Health Trust.
It is important to note that this description is a typical example of your placement and may be subject
to change.