Medical Staffing: European Working Time Directive and Medical Staffing »
Posted By aisolve 7 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsThe start of the new European Working Time Directive (EWTD) 48 hour working week in August 2009 has meant that hospitals throughout the country have been redesigning on-call rotas for junior doctors. [1] Radiology is considered a service specialty within medicine, providing specialist imaging services for all hospital departments. Because certification under the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposures) Regulations is required to work within radiology, and because there are no junior doctors below specialist registrar or specialist trainee grade, radiologists are not in a position to take part in the hospital at night scheme. The new 48 hour working week has therefore been difficult to achieve, but Sheffield has risen to the challenge, and a new compliant working pattern for specialist registrars (SpRs) began in October 2008.
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