Perplexing views on directive

摘要

The editorial on the European WorkingTime Directive was one sided, inaccurate, and at odds with a similar article published in BMJ Career Focus two months previously.Doctors have always been paid a basic salary for a 40 hour week or 10 sessions. In 2002 pay banding in the new contract showed that most junior doctors were working many more hours than their contracts. Only then did it become more costly for a trust to employ doctors for long hours than to employ more doctors for shorter hours.