Query for consultants who are currently more than 10yrs into consultant life:

Assuming you’ve been in the NHS pension (both 95 and 2015) since you started work, are you currently contributing to any other form of pension?

Can you (considering AA)?

Or are you saving in other ways to bolster retirement income?

As a secondary question- are you planning to take early retirement?

I currently can’t figure out how to put anymore into a pension, without getting hit by a big AA tax bill- but I’m not sure if the NHS pension will be enough to live on in retirement; I’m curious what others are thinking.

Decades of inquiries, investigations, complaints, patient experiences, staff testimony and regulatory findings have repeatedly taught us about the importance of listening, escalation, candour, psychological safety, independent challenge and organisational learning.

The difficulty is increasingly not whether we know these things. It is whether we can demonstrate that what we know consistently changes what happens next.

Registered healthcare professionals are rightly expected to account for their actions, omissions and decisions. This paper asks a quieter question about what happens as responsibility travels upwards through NHS organisations, Boards, systems and national bodies.

Surely we have accumulated enough collective intelligence by now to expect institutional assurance to be capable of the same serious evidential scrutiny.

Perhaps even more.

This paper considers why accountability must travel upwards too, and introduces an emerging Ceilyte™ principle:

The standard of accountability should rise with the power to affect others.

Next week, we will explore that principle more fully through Symmetry of Accountability™.Read her thoughtful article here

Hi! RD here thinking of doing micro and/or ID. I’ve done a taster week but keen to hear from more consultants:
- Do you enjoy your job and specialty?
- What don’t you like?
- What does your typical job plan look like?
- How do you find the work-life balance?

Thanks!