Job planning standards of best practice for associate specialists and specialty doctors


NHS Employers
December 2007

These standards of best practice are designed to apply to Associate Specialists and Specialty Doctors employed by the NHS in England.

Participation in job planning is a mandatory requirement of the new contract for Associate Specialists and Specialty Doctors.

These standards represent recommended guidance on best practice in relation to job planning.

This guidance is directly applicable to doctors who take up a new national contract and its broad principles should be applied, to the fullest extent possible, to those who remain on their current contract.

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