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A newsletter produced by AMA Queensland especially for Resident's and Registrars
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theroundsResidents & RegistRaRs M AY 2 0 1 2 • V O L U M E 5
H ave you ever felt pressure to falsify your timesheet? If so, you’re not alone. Many junior doctors are reluctant to claim for overtime they have legitimately worked.
Some have been coerced into signing altered timesheets that reflect fewer hours than have actually been worked. Others have been threatened with poor appraisals or other adverse consequences for claiming overtime.
You are entitled to payment for overtime hours worked. This includes payment for overtime hours worked completing discharge summaries or clinical notes, giving or receiving handover and checking pathology.
Your employer is entitled to insist that overtime approval is prospective. In this situation, the person with the authority to prospectively approve overtime must be available to be contacted.
Your employer is also entitled to obtain details of patients seen during overtime hours worked. Clinical notes may be audited to ensure that overtime claims are legitimate.
In recent talks with Queensland Health, Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation Queensland (ASMOFQ) flagged non-payment of overtime to junior doctors as a major issue. Queensland Health has expressed interest in engaging with ASMOFQ to ensure that this issue is addressed.
If you have experienced difficulties regarding payment of overtime, ASMOFQ would like to hear from you.
Payment of Overtime
Many junior doctors are reluctant to claim for overtime they have legitimately worked.
Ph: 07 3872 2207Email: [email protected]: www.asmofq.org.au
How to become a LOCUM?GOLD COAST | JUNE 2012
For more information sand an email to [email protected] or call (07) 3872 2216
Hosted by AMA Queensland Junior Doctors in Training, this event will provide useful information about locuming.
by jen williams
theroundsEnterprise Bargaining – MOCa negotiations
by jen williams
O ur current Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (EBA), the Medical Officers’ Certified Agreement 2 (MOCA2) expires in
May 2012, and with a new government taking the reins in Queensland, negotiations that will have a direct impact on your wages are underway.
In a recent meeting between Queensland Health (QH), the Australian Salaried Medical Officers’ Federation Queensland (ASMOFQ) and other stakeholders, key elements forming part of the log of claims for changes to your EBA were discussed. ASMOFQ consulted with AMA Queensland regarding issues to be addressed on behalf of doctors-in-training. On this basis, ASMOFQ has flagged the following issues as needing critical attention during this round of negotiations:
1. Professional development
2. On-call work
3. Job security
4. Evening and night penalty allowances
AMA Queensland Council for Doctors in Training strongly supports:
1. A professional development allowance (PDA) for all junior doctors• currently only junior doctors on specialist
training programs are eligible to receive the vocational training subsidy
• currently all junior doctors are entitled to access to EMST and APLS courses, paid for by QH and attended during ordinary working hours
2. A significant increase in the amount of PDApayable to junior doctors• the current vocational training subsidy is
$1,500 per year
• best estimates of real training costs are in the order of $10,000 per year for junior doctors (with some forking out several times this)
3. An increase in the amount of professionaldevelopment leave (PDL) for all junior doctors• currently from PGY2 1 week of PDL is accrued
per year, to a maximum of 2 weeks
• SMOs accrue 3.6 weeks of PDL per year, to a maximum of 36 weeks
4. Appropriate remuneration for work performed whileoncall(foralldoctors)• the current on-call rate is a few measly bucks
an hour, irrespective of whether you’re called zero or twenty-five times overnight
• currently phone calls overnight are not counted in fatigue considerations
• work performed while on call may include providing phone advice, taking phone referrals, analysing clinical information (x-rays, ECGs, pathology)
5. Job security for junior doctors, in the form ofextended contracts
6.A significant increase in the night penaltyallowance to accurately reflect the impact ofthiskindofworkondoctors• the current allowance is a 15% loading if more
than half your shift is worked after 1800
• SMOs receive a 15% loading if more than half their shift is worked after 1600
• night work (especially between midnight and 8am) is associated with adverse effects such as poorer patient outcomes, increased cancer rates, obesity and early death in workers, and increased rates of relationship breakdowns for workers
• night work results in less direct supervision, and fewer training opportunities for junior doctors
So where to from here? Over the coming weeks, further meetings will be held between the relevant stakeholders, with the ultimate aim of finalising a newer, better agreement for doctors-in-training.
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Always one step ahead.
As a temporary employee of Queensland Health, you must have served a period of at least one year’s continuous service before being eligible to apply to SARAS.
i f you’ve never heard of SARAS, run screaming to your iPad and stick it in Google. This may be what you’ve been waiting for.
SARAS is Queensland Health’s Study and Research Assistance Scheme. Junior doctors can submit an application for access to leave for the purposes of attending courses or exams, studying for exams, or performing research, and for financial assistance in the payment of tuition fees, HECS, Fee-HELP, and other directly related fees.
As a temporary employee of Queensland Health, you must have served a period of at least one year’s continuous service before being eligible to apply to SARAS.
For more information, go to: health.qld.gov.au/qhpolicy/docs/pol/qh-pol-223.pdf
saRas… not just a misspelt disease
by jen williams
theroundsPrincess alexandra Hospital - Working Overseas
THurSDAY 12 APrIL 2012
Your Cdt
Andrew Turner Manager, Workplace Relations AMA Queensland
EMAIL: [email protected]
Jen Williams Chair Council of Doctors in Training
EMAIL: [email protected]
Who ElsE is on thE CDt:
Michael Bonning Immediate Past Chair
Saul Felber Deputy Chair (Industrial) [email protected]
Vanessa Grayson Deputy Chair (Communications) [email protected]
Andrew Hutchinson Deputy Chair (Training) [email protected]
Allan Davies Deputy Chair (rural and remote) [email protected]
Randal Pitelli Deputy Chair (International Medical Graduates) [email protected]
HOW tO COntaCt Us:
FACEBOOKAMA Queensland is now on Facebook! Search for us and ‘like’ our page, drop us a line on our wall and check out latest photos.
SKYPEOur CDT meetings are going to be conducted using Skype. If you wish to participate please email Andrew Turner at the address below.
TWITTERFollow AMA Queensland President Dr richard Kidd on Twitter.
PHOTOS FrOM THE
Contact us
Vanessa GraysonDeputy Chair (Communications), CDT
EMAIL: [email protected]
Dr Saul FelberDeputy Chair (Industrial), CDT
EMAIL: [email protected]
Andrew Turner and Dr Vicki Slinko.
Dr Max White, Ms Adrienne Wilson and Dr Sara Cargill.
Drs William Milford and Vicki Slinko.
Drs Vicki Slinko, Jen Williams and Sneha Parghi.
