{"id":35987,"date":"2016-01-12T11:12:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=35987"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T10:12:20","slug":"richard-smith-does-the-nhs-meet-the-needs-of-junior-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/01\/12\/richard-smith-does-the-nhs-meet-the-needs-of-junior-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Smith: Does the NHS meet the needs of junior doctors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/richard_smith_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-33037\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/richard_smith_2014-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"richard_smith_2014\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Bain, the global consultancy, produces what it calls \u201ca pyramid of employee needs,\u201d and on the day when junior doctors are striking it\u2019s instructive to see how well the NHS is doing in meeting their needs.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom of the pyramid is \u201csatisfied employees,\u201d and the very fact that junior doctors are striking suggests that they don\u2019t even reach this level. The first requirement for satified employees is to have a safe work environment. Hospitals are certainly not safe for patients in that they are famously riskier than bungee jumping, and they are not entirely safe for junior doctors in that the work is stressful and risky. The fear is not so much that junior doctors will be harmed themselves but that they will harm patients and suffer disciplinary, legal, and emotional consequences. I\u2019m assured that it\u2019s not like when I was a junior doctor and would be the first to arrive at a cardiac arrest without any training, but \u201csafe\u201d may be a bold claim.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The next requirement is to \u201chave the tools, training, and resources to do their job well.\u201d The tools should be there, but often the long medical school training does not suit junior doctors well for day to day hospital practice; and many might argue that they don\u2019t have the resources, particularly the time, to do the job well.<\/p>\n<p>Satisfied employees \u201ccan get their jobs done efficiently, without excess bureaucracy.\u201d Junior doctors may find the NHS overbureaucratic.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, at the top of the pyramid junior doctors should feel that they \u201care valued and rewarded fairly.\u201d This may be at the heart of their dissatisfaction. They don\u2019t feel valued either by their hospitals, the NHS as a whole, their seniors in some cases, and certainly not by Jeremy Hunt. Some will at least feel valued by their patients, a great consolation. The emotional rewards can be considerable, and the financial rewards are not bad, although often not comparable to those of their contemporaries who have gone into banking and consulting.<\/p>\n<p>The level above satisfied is \u201cengaged,\u201d and the first requirement is \u201cto be part of an extraordinary team.\u201d This must be the case for some junior doctors, but many move quickly from team to team and may never have the chance to feel part of the team.<\/p>\n<p>The next requirement for engaged employees is \u201cto have autonomy to do their jobs.\u201d When I was a junior doctor we had too much autonomy, particularly in the middle of the night, but perhaps junior doctors feel the opposite\u2014that they are cogs in a machine with little autonomy. The autonomy comes later in medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Engaged employees \u201clearn and grow every day,\u201d and this should be the case for junior doctors, although they may think that they don\u2019t have the chance to research and consolidate their learning.<\/p>\n<p>To be engaged junior doctors should feel that they \u201cmake a difference and have an impact.\u201d This will, I suspect, vary from job to job.<\/p>\n<p>At the top of the pyramid are \u201cinspired employees,\u201d and their first requirement is \u201cto get meaning and inspiration from their organisation\u2019s mission.\u201d This should be easy for junior doctors compared with their contemporaries in banking, but perhaps the mission of the NHS has become muddied since its inception in 1948. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2015\/06\/15\/richard-smith-diagnose-treat-and-cure-is-largely-dead\/\">As I\u2019ve argued before the \u201cglory days of diagnose, treat, cure,\u201d are largely gone<\/a>. A third of the patients in British hospitals shouldn\u2019t be there, and to be brutal at least some of the work is keeping alive patients who\u2019d be better off dead. Plus with the long term conditions, the stuff of modern medicine, what the paients do matters much more than what the doctors do.<\/p>\n<p>The only other requirement for inspired employees is that they \u201care inspired by the leaders in their organisation.\u201d There are plenty of inspiring doctor leaders, and junior doctors may be lucky enough to spend time with them. But the doctors may not feel like the real leaders in a hospital, and junior doctors may have little or no contact with managers and anyway be encultured to despise management. Then it\u2019s impossible to imagine junior doctors being inspired by the distant leaders of the NHS and national medical orgnisations.<\/p>\n<p>My conclusion sadly is that junior doctors don\u2019t score well on the pyramid of enployee needs, but there is the potential for them to score very highly. The NHS should endeavour to make that happen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/01\/12\/richard-smith-does-the-nhs-meet-the-needs-of-junior-doctors\/richard_smith_blog_fig\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35988\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-35988\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/01\/richard_smith_blog_fig.png\" alt=\"richard_smith_blog_fig\" width=\"603\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/01\/richard_smith_blog_fig.png 603w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/01\/richard_smith_blog_fig-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bain, the global consultancy, produces what it calls \u201ca pyramid of employee needs,\u201d and on the day when junior doctors are striking it\u2019s instructive to see how well the NHS [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/01\/12\/richard-smith-does-the-nhs-meet-the-needs-of-junior-doctors\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,236,955],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-junior-doctors","category-nhs","category-richard-smith"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Richard Smith: Does the NHS meet the needs of junior doctors? 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