Predictable and Unpredictable on-call

Predictable on-call:

• Set times that you know you will need to be present at the hospital or logged on remotely during an on-call.
• This is often time spent on-site before or after your routine work has started or finished. An example of this would be starting one hour before your routine work and staying for an hour afterwards to do the handover.
• Consider using Normal hours to describe Predictable on-call because the start and end times are stationary.
  

Unpredictable on-call:

• Although you are on-call, you will not be actively working for the whole period. 
• The busy periods where you work remotely or need to return to site do not happen at specific times, so this would be unpredictable on-call.
• The hours recorded as unpredictable on-call are usually and average based on previous agreements or evidence from a diary card exercise.