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Subsequent to Slash in Junior Doctors’ Working Hours, NHS Waiting Lists Go Up |
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Since the 1990s, waiting times in the NHS were reported to be falling, but after the ruling that restricted junior doctors' working hours to 48-hour a week came into effect last August, the situation is back to square one, according to a survey conducted by The Royal College of Surgeons,
It has come to surface that a massive number of patients are now waiting for more than 18 weeks to undergo surgical treatment. According to a survey, around 80% of 980 of NHS surgeons and medical interns revealed that from the time, the European Working Time Directive was implemented, health care has deteriorated.
Link: The Daily Telegraph.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 16:05 |