tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post6216859623151111358..comments2023-06-02T09:11:57.051+01:00Comments on doctor zorro: DOH gets it rightDoctor Zorrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02066781456935894741noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-12453407927015730812012-05-24T11:26:10.485+01:002012-05-24T11:26:10.485+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-48607279996984675502012-05-24T11:10:17.597+01:002012-05-24T11:10:17.597+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-89159166247041913092012-05-23T23:55:47.355+01:002012-05-23T23:55:47.355+01:00damn Z., sometimes you are right maaaan.damn Z., sometimes you are right maaaan.yonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-63980293549109678202012-05-23T15:12:44.944+01:002012-05-23T15:12:44.944+01:00So, the problem is lack of 'flexibility' i...So, the problem is lack of 'flexibility' is it - but surely 'flexibility' is no more than a euphemism for dangerous working practices?<br /><br />Who would want somebody who had worked a 70, 80, or even 90 hours week (week in week out) making critical clinical decisions about their health care - it is practically a role reversal when it is the poor old sleep deprived junior doc who needs TLC?the a&e charge nursenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-91772209805075837422012-05-23T12:59:00.113+01:002012-05-23T12:59:00.113+01:00Some trainees it is true have been brainwashed int...Some trainees it is true have been brainwashed into harking back to a system that they have no personal experience of. Most of them, and you too Rita I think are too young to have experienced the true awfulness of the workload trainees used to carry, and which verged on servitude. The committee are clear that training needs to be addressed but this can be achieved within a 48 hr week.<br />As for Lansley, the man is more full of shit than a blocked lavvie.Doctor Zorrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02066781456935894741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-16173449257954613072012-05-23T12:49:26.687+01:002012-05-23T12:49:26.687+01:00Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes) (Con): One year on fro...Dr Sarah Wollaston (Totnes) (Con): One year on from the implementation of the European working time directive, there is evidence that patient care is suffering. Handovers have been inadequate in some cases, and junior doctors’ training time has been reduced. Will my right hon. Friend reassure me that he will take action to allow some acute specialities to opt out of the European working time directive?<br /> <br /><br />Mr Lansley: Yes. I am very clear that, together with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, we need to take the European working time directive back to the European Union. We need to discuss it again. We need to go to the European Union with the intention of maintaining the opt-out and of giving ourselves, not least in the health context, the flexibility that we lack, so that junior doctors, in particular, have the capacity to undertake the training that they need. It is not that we want to go back to the past, when there were excessive hours—100-hour weeks and so on—but we want junior doctors to be confident that they will get the training that they require in the period allocated for training.<br /><br />Nicked this from Remedy UK's website<br /><br />RPxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263851613902584529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4661337961858411173.post-47835434725327523552012-05-23T12:46:43.916+01:002012-05-23T12:46:43.916+01:00Not so quick superhero :).
The dim and distant p...Not so quick superhero :). <br /><br />The dim and distant past cite that junior doctors themselves wanted to go back to the good old days. One of the issues cited was lack of continuity. Must try and recall the research for all this and write a viewpoint on my blog.<br /><br />Rita<br />http://themedicaljournalistoncall.blogspot.co.uk/xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03263851613902584529noreply@blogger.com