Improving Doctors' Working Lives

So! How should banding pay protection be applied? The poll results are in, and it's a tie between "When/if doctors can prove entitlement" and "Pay protection should be abolished" (with a late challenge from "Only for doctors currently in post"). Well, well. Nobody's that keen on no-questions-asked pay protection, then...

Still, there is a question mark over whether New Deal pay structures are adequate to deal with the WTD challenge - we'll have to wait and see if any changes are made.

New poll: Should doctors and/or nurses be able to sleep on full shifts?

Resource of the week: The Changing Workforce Programme has a great set of resources online, with lots of information on role redesign and a roles database (though I'm not entirely keen on their cover design.) A very good site particularly for anyone involved with developing new roles.

Latest news:
What happens after foundation programmes? - BMJ Careers Focus
Is competency based training and assessment the way forward? - BMJ Careers Focus
Rules for being a medic - BMJ Careers Focus
The doubts and fears of emergency physicians - CMAJ
Doctors leave the UK for better lifestyles - BMJ
Doctors in Nigeria strike over wages - BMJ

The National Sleep Foundation reports that a senior reactor operator in a nuclear plant fell asleep while on a 1900-0700 night shift. The operator "dozed off somewhere between 4 and 5 a.m" - the typical trough period identified for night shift workers is around 3 a.m.
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