Part-time senior registrar posts: Wessex reviewed.

A Government memorandum guided regional boards on how to set up schemes for re-employment of women doctors to ensure that they could train part-time in the hospital service with the aim of gaining consultant posts. Of the 14 senior registrars who have held part-time contracts in Wessex during the past 5 years, 2 are now full-time consultants and 8 have completed their higher qualifications. A high standard of qualification and training can be achieved on a part-time basis but subsequent employment prospects need to be more flexible: regional health authorities should create more part-time consultant posts.