Open AccessEWTD revisited
Author(s) -
Norman Williams
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/rcsbull.2014.96.5.140
Subject(s) - directive , working time , member state , medicine , law , political science , european union , member states , engineering , business , computer science , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , economic policy , programming language
As some of you may know, I was asked just before Christmas 2013 by the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, to chair a taskforce to examine the effects of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on training and patient care in the NHS. The two questions that were foremost in our minds were: