RCP president Sir Richard Thompson welcomed the publication of the Report of the Independent Working Time Regulations Taskforce to the Department of Health today. He said:
The RCP welcomes this report as a step forward in improving the training opportunities and working lives of junior doctors. Our own RCP surveys show that junior doctors are dissatisfied with their training, including in the continuity of care, which is often fragmented due to the restrictions placed on them by the European Working Time Regulations and the New Deal contract. We particularly welcome the recommendation to distinguish better between the service and education elements of doctors’ contracts, and this must be taken into account in the current renegotiation of the contract.
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- RCP president Sir Richard Thompson was a member of the independent taskforce.