| Description | Papers relating to Suicides among junior doctors at Guy's Hospital; See letter from Norman Fowler including, "...the excessive hours worked ...and the effect this can have on their wellbeing...The main difficulties are the need to provide round the clock medical cover, and the way this is currently organised...junior doctors should gain sufficient out of hours experience...The most onerous rotas are to be abolished immediately....no junior doctor would be required to be on call more frequently than every second night and weekend...wherever it proves practicableand can be achieved within planned spending...commitments should be reduced to no more than every third night and weekend by August 1983" (25th March, 1983) |