Locally Employed Doctors (LEDs)

Bedford and Luton and Dunstable hospitals are big supporter of LE doctors. This group comprises of doctors employed by the trust and their contracts and employment rights sits with the trust policy.

LEDs include Senior and Junior clinical fellows, LAS (Locum appointed for service) doctors and MTI (Medical training Initiative) doctors.

We have over 150 LEDs who work with us in different medical streams including Accident and Emergency, Acute medicine, Anaesthetics, Surgery, Orthopaedics and Paediatrics just to name a few.

We have comprehensive induction programme which includes corporate induction, induction by specialty leads and Induction by locally employed tutor. LE doctors are supported by LED administrator who can provide them information and guide through settling in process. We are developing video inductions so that LE doctors can use the links to update themselves with hospital policies at their own convenience. We value our locally employed doctors and would like to provide with them with same training opportunities as are provided to trainees employed by Health Education England.

We believe that mentoring and coaching can assist locally employed doctors in achieving their career goals. We are training mentors from LEDs who are currently working with us and can be mentors or buddies to the newly appointed LEDs in helping them settle in the new posts. All our LEDs will be provided with Mentor or Educational supervisor who can support them in understanding cultures and values of our trust and NHS as a whole.

In addition to this, we have LED Representatives based on site to help and guide you should you need them.

Key People

LED Administrator L&D – Miss Gillian Oduro – Gillian.Oduro2@ldh.nhs.uk
LED Administrator Bedford – Perrie Usher – Perrie.Usher@bedfordhospital.nhs.uk
LED Tutor – Dr Anamika Agrawal – Anamika.Agrawal2@bedsft.nhs.uk

LED Representatives:-

LED Tutor – Medicine (Bedford)– Dr Muhammad Ullah – Muhammad.Ullah@bedsft.nhs.uk
LED Tutor – Surgery (Bedford) – Dr Aasem Chaudry – Aasem.Chaudry@bedfordhospital.nhs.uk
LED Tutor – A&E (Bedford) – Dr Abdalla Ali – Abdalla.Ali@bedsft.nhs.uk
LED Representatives – Medicine (Bedford) – Dr Shaun Trussell – Shaun.Trussell@bedfordhospital.nhs.uk
Joint Senior LED Representative – Faisal Rashad – Rashad@ldh.nhs.uk
Joint Senior LED Representative – Daniel Ketley – Ketley@ldh.nhs.uk
Joint Junior LED Representative – Siddesh Prabhulingam – Prabhulingam@ldh.nhs.uk
Joint Junior LED Representative – Swarnima Kc – KC@ldh.nhs.uk
Senior General Medicine LED Specialty Representative – Hadeel Al-Husban – Al-Husban@ldh.nhs.uk
Joint Junior General Medicine LED Specialty Representative – Prasanna Karunarathne – karunarathne@ldh.nhs.uk
Joint Junior General Medicine LED Specialty Representative – Maruf Joy – Joy@ldh.nhs.uk
Bariatric & Colorectal Surgery LED Specialty Representative – Shanmuga Kannan – Kannan@ldh.nhs.uk
Trauma and Orthopaedics LED Specialty Representative – Preetha Sadasivan – sadasivan@ldh.nhs.uk
Obstetrics and Gynaecology LED Specialty Representative – Phyo Zaw Wai – Wai@ldh.nhs.uk
Emergency Department LED Specialty Representative – Malek Abu Osba – AbuOsba@ldh.nhs.uk
Emergency Department LED Specialty Representative – Dinkar Bisht – Bisht@ldh.nhs.uk
Ophthalmology/ENT/Urology/Breast LED Specialty Representative – Brenda Anena – Anena@ldh.nhs.uk
Anaesthetics LED Specialty Representative – Pradeep Tiwari – Tiwari@ldh.nhs.uk
Radiology LED Specialty Representative – Garvit Nama – Nama@ldh.nhs.uk
Paediatric & Neonatal LED Specialty Representative – Manoj Gautam – Gautam@ldh.nhs.uk

Key Links

HEEoE – Locally Employed Doctors | East of England (hee.nhs.uk)

Horus – https://horus.hee.nhs.uk/sign-in

Horus

We are able to provide all LEDs with access to Horus ePortfolio. The ePortfolio is an electronic tool for doctors to store and record a collection of evidence that demonstrates their learning achievements and abilities. An ePortfolio can help you to:

Keep documents together to evidence your progress and learning
Reflect on your learning
Think about your personal development plan (PDP), encouraging you to think about what you need to do next to help you progress in your career
Prepare for an interview
Develop your CV
Please let us know if you would like this facility and arrangements will be made for you.

If you experience any trouble using the site please read through their support page – https://supporthorus.hee.nhs.uk/

Bedford Hospital

Emergency department at Bedford hospital is committed to maximising opportunities for the development of Locally Employed Doctors (LEDs).We recognise LEDs are a very important group who provide stability and service delivery across Bedford Hospital. This is a diverse group of doctors ranging in experience from four years post qualification to, in some cases, over thirty years of medical experience. Each has their own personal and professional development needs extending beyond their delivery of clinical service. Service provision has traditionally been viewed as the main role of LEDs, and they make significant contributions to the advancement of emergency medicine and the profession in areas of leadership, education, research and governance.
As an LED doctor you will have appropriate clinical responsibility for the care of patients delegated by the consultant to his/her charge. Co-responsibility for the proper functioning of the department, including supervision of more junior medical staff. Working within the multidisciplinary team. Co-ordinating appropriate medical, surgical, and allied disciplines concerned with patient care and communicating appropriately with general practitioners and community agencies.

Educational and Learning Opportunities

There will be opportunities to improve on practical skills, procedures, leadership and teaching. The daily board round also gives the opportunity to learn in a multidisciplinary way. There are formal educational opportunities weekly both within specialties and the medical directorate and you will be encouraged to present at these.

We will help you gain experience in practical and technical skills including suturing, procedural sedation, joint manipulation, cardioversion, management and application of ALS algorithms and help support and guide you further with applications for speciality training should this be something you wish to consider.

We run a varied teaching programme that runs twice a month and is consultant led. Sessions range from SIMS to x-ray interpretation to discussions around protocols. We have daily 5-minute morning bite teach sessions at our morning handover and the topics again are taken from the RCEM curriculums ensuring over a period of a year all topics are addressed.

We have internal training program is formed by specific secondment-style modules of 3 months each (anaesthetics, Intensive care medicine, acute medicine, and paediatrics) alternated with of emergency medicine each year to acquire relevant competences needed to work on a consultant level in the UK. A dedicated study day (2 hours) is assigned once every two month. The trainees will also be provided with simulation teaching and opportunities to develop their teaching skills and work towards resuscitation courses instructor status.

Optional opportunities in education, leadership, trauma, simulation will be considered to achieve particular parts of the curriculum, as well as study leave to achieve other requirements as resuscitation courses and USS training. Each candidate will be allocated an educational supervisor in emergency medicine and during secondments will be supported by the clinical supervisor.