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Thursday, August 19, 2004
EWTD three weeks on
The Health Service Journal (subscription only) has a follow-up article on EWTD which looks at the strain hospitals are under following 1st August. According to the article, most trusts in England are generally compliant but there is a lot of fragility in the rotas, particularly when doctors go off sick. Some trusts are struggling with recruitment and others are reliant on some junior doctors signing out of the EWTD.
There are also significant problems in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, particularly in small hospitals where the Hospital at Night approach is not always seen as viable. "I hate to be fair to managers," says Dr Brian Patterson, the Northern Ireland BMA chair, "but I think they'll have a hard job to make all posts compliant without help from the Department of Health."
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There are also significant problems in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, particularly in small hospitals where the Hospital at Night approach is not always seen as viable. "I hate to be fair to managers," says Dr Brian Patterson, the Northern Ireland BMA chair, "but I think they'll have a hard job to make all posts compliant without help from the Department of Health."
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