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This scheme, which has recently been substantially reviewed, is for doctors working part-time who wish to remain in touch with medicine so that they can return to a fuller commitment to the NHS when circumstances permit. They can do a small amount of specially arranged paid professional work, attend postgraduate medical education sessions, and receive a small retainer to help meet their expenses. The scheme is primarily intended to help women doctors, but it also applies to men. It is administered by the NHS and by clinical tutors working under the direction of postgraduate deans and regional postgraduate medical committees.
Directors of post graduate education (DPGPE) arrange for doctors in the scheme to undertake service sessions in appropriate practices. The doctors are employed as assistants by these practices. The actual time the doctor works is a matter to be agreed between the doctors, the practice and the DPGPE, and the employment terms are to be agreed between the doctor and the practice.
Payments by the health authority to the employing practice are up to a maximum of the appropriate fee for four notional half-days of 3.5 hours each week.
Information about the scheme can be obtained from directors of post graduate general practice education.
Box 29.1: Doctors' retainer scheme
The health authority pays the employing practice for a maximum of four notional half-days per week
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