Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average rota gap is for junior doctors in NHS foundation trusts in the most recent period for which figures are available; and what assessment he has made of the effect on services of the size of that gap.
The Department does not collect this information. Rota arrangements for junior doctors are a matter for individual National Health Service foundation trusts.
Contact details for NHS foundation trusts and all other NHS authorities can be found on the NHS Choices website:
http://www.nhs.uk/nhsengland/thenhs/about/pages/authoritiesandtrusts.aspx