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Research carried out for the doctors' regulator has found the cut to junior doctors hours has not stopped the culture of excessive shifts with little rest.
Junior doctors are supposed to work a maximum of 48 hours per week, averaged over 26 weeks but this can still mean they work 13-hour shifts at a time often for days in a row, it was found.
One doctor said a patient died from a treatable condition during a staff handover between shifts and another junior was left to cover 340 patients alone overnight.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...unior-doctors-working-100-hour-weeks-GMC.html
Junior doctors are supposed to work a maximum of 48 hours per week, averaged over 26 weeks but this can still mean they work 13-hour shifts at a time often for days in a row, it was found.
One doctor said a patient died from a treatable condition during a staff handover between shifts and another junior was left to cover 340 patients alone overnight.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...unior-doctors-working-100-hour-weeks-GMC.html