My experience as a discharge registrar
I started working as a discharge registrar back in 2020. I noticed that my previous trust put these shifts out on the locum app I was a member of. I took a few and really started enjoying it. The locum salary is on a NHS PAYE payslip with tax deducted at source ( like our main salaries). I do not need to fill any timesheets and it is all done via my phone app ( Patchwork - Healthcare Workforce Solution ) This is what I do: 1.Meet the discharge liason officer(DLO)/ discharge coordinator at 0800 AM who has a list of patients on various medical wards who are fit for discharge and have been flagged up by the nurses. The DLO comes at 0730 AM so she has a good 30 min to talk to nurses in charge of wards and make a list to get me going. 2. The DLO also goes through the electronic white boards which are have updates from Friday on patients who can potentially go home. They give me a list. 3.I start seeing those patients - it is like a mini ward round. 4. I start off with their OBS and bl...