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Friday, February 27, 2004
It's Work Your Proper Hours Day!
Yes, the TUC has declared today Work Your Proper Hours Day. Staff are being encouraged to start on time, leave on time and take their breaks.
(For junior doctors of course, EVERY day is Work Your Proper Hours Day.)
(For junior doctors of course, EVERY day is Work Your Proper Hours Day.)
Thursday, February 26, 2004
EWTD news
The full text of the BMA's evidence to the Inquiry on the European Working Time Directive is now available. A press release summarises the BMA's concerns over what it perceives as the NHS's lack of preparation for EWTD.
NHS news
Rudolf Klein in the New England Journal of Medicine reviews developments in the British National Health Service, including the new consultant contract and EWTD pressures.
Doctors for Reform, a group of 500 hospital consultants, has placed a full page advertisement in the Times calling for the NHS to be funded by compulsory health insurance. The call has been dismissed by the goverment who insist that the NHS should be paid for by taxation (Scotsman).
The second Wanless review is also out, and includes the recommendation that the NHS needs to become an "exemplar" in improving staff health levels.
The full text of the BMA's evidence to the Inquiry on the European Working Time Directive is now available. A press release summarises the BMA's concerns over what it perceives as the NHS's lack of preparation for EWTD.
NHS news
Rudolf Klein in the New England Journal of Medicine reviews developments in the British National Health Service, including the new consultant contract and EWTD pressures.
Doctors for Reform, a group of 500 hospital consultants, has placed a full page advertisement in the Times calling for the NHS to be funded by compulsory health insurance. The call has been dismissed by the goverment who insist that the NHS should be paid for by taxation (Scotsman).
The second Wanless review is also out, and includes the recommendation that the NHS needs to become an "exemplar" in improving staff health levels.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
New-look website!
OK, it still needs a bit of work, but it's up and running! And here are those links again, for anyone who missed them:
Controversial? Hong Kong study suggests sleep deprivation doesn't impair doctors' cognitive function
The "Anchor Sleep Debate": French study suggests that short naps are better than caffeine for improving doctors' alertness
And in The Scotsman: Will future surgeons be unable to cut their way out of a paper bag?
Controversial? Hong Kong study suggests sleep deprivation doesn't impair doctors' cognitive function
The "Anchor Sleep Debate": French study suggests that short naps are better than caffeine for improving doctors' alertness
And in The Scotsman: Will future surgeons be unable to cut their way out of a paper bag?
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