Junior Doctors: Working Hours
(asked on 3rd November 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of junior doctors currently not working weekends.
This question was answered on 6th November 2015
This information is not held centrally.
Data gathered by NHS Employers for the purposes of developing proposals on junior doctors’ contract reform (and published in evidence to the Review Body on Doctors and Dentists Remuneration) suggested that junior doctors are rostered to work an average of 63% fewer total hours on a weekend day compared to a week day.