UK: mandatory training - skala szaleństwa w waszych instytucjach?

Taki liścik puściłem ostatnio w lekarski obieg w moim truście, w odpowiedzi na ponaglenie do skrzętnego zaliczania 'mandatory training' (mamy, jako obowiązkowe: fire safety, safeguarding, waste management, manual handling, infection control, confidentiality): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sorry for taking liberty to use the bulk e-mail option, but this is an important issue and I am glad that it has been raised. >> Some might be surprised to know that both mandatory training and appraisal completion is part of the Key performance indicators… get it done!!!<< I have come to this Trust 11 years ago, at that time there was just a fire lecture, always quite entertaining. Currently, as a consultant histopathologist (with no direct contact with patients whatsoever), I am officially obliged to tick boxes at 6 (six) mandatory training events. They are mostly if not all – delicately speaking (and those who know me, know I would prefer to use less delicate language) – barely relevant to what I am doing as a doctor in this organisation. Depending how things are (dis)organised, I am loosing something from one to two days of work per year. In the perspective of our understaffed and overworked departmental consultant body that means something like one month of histopathology consultant working time per year. Just imagine, it is not difficult – all those diagnoses, many of life threatening conditions, being delayed. The mushrooming quasi-industry of Mandatory Training is simply harming our patients. It is also damaging the staff morale, at least of those who see time wastage as something ethically wrong. Please note that I am not criticising the people runnin