Working time cap ‘damaging patient safety’

European law brought in to improve patient safety and the working lives of doctors has “failed spectacularly”, say surgeons on the first anniversary of its implementation.

 

Results of a survey published this week by the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS),  suggest that since the restrictions of the European Working Time Regulations [EWTR] limiting doctors 48 hours a week, patients in NHS hospitals are in fact much less safe than they were a year ago, and the s... (642 more words)

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