UK doctors' views on the implementation of the European Working Time Directive as applied to medical practice: a qualitative analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To report on what doctors at very different levels of seniority wrote, in their own words, about their concerns about the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and its implementation in the National Health Service (NHS).

Design

All medical school graduates from 1993, 2005 and 2009 were surveyed by post and email in 2010.

Setting

The UK.

Methods

Using qualitative methods, we analysed free-text responses made in 2010, towards the end of the first year of full EWTD implementation, of three cohorts of the UK medical graduates (graduates of 1993, 2005 and 2009), surveyed as part of the UK Medical Careers Research Group's schedule of multipurpose longitudinal surveys of doctors.

Results

Of 2459 respondents who gave free-text comments, 279 (11%) mad

SUBMITTER: Clarke RT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3918988 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature