The evolution of restricted hours of duty for resident medical officers in New Zealand: a personal view
Stewart Mann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.5-6-650
Clin Med November 2005 Stewart Mann
Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand
DM FRCPRoles: Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine

Abstract
The New Zealand Health Service had to start adapting to significant restrictions in junior medical staff's hours of work in the mid-1980s. Some consequences of this presage those that will occur in the UK and Europe with the implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD). These naturally include continuity of patient care, changing responsibility and hours of senior medical and administrative staff, some aspects of medical professionalism and training issues. Life does, however, go on.
- © 2005 Royal College of Physicians
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The evolution of restricted hours of duty for resident medical officers in New Zealand
Stewart Mann
Clinical Medicine Nov 2005, 5 (6) 650-652; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.5-6-650
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