Press Release

Statement in response to BMJ article on junior doctors working 91 hours a week

NHS Employers deputy director Alastair Henderson said: “The Royal College of Physicians survey and subsequent article in the British Medical Journal raises some important issues. The shift patterns that result in junior doctors working 91 hours over seven consecutive nights are legally acceptable under the European Working Time Directive and the hours do balance out to no more than 56 hours a week over a period.