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Rostering Junior Doctors to meet the working hours challenge
The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) plays a vital role in protecting the health and safety of workers from the effects of working excessively long hours, having inadequate rest and disruptive work patterns, and can contribute to improved work performance with a better balance between work and family life. From 2009 the directive imposes an average 48-hour maximum working week.
"The European Working Time Directive can be viewed as the greatest challenge the NHS has faced in recent years but also the greatest opportunity" John Reid, Secretary of State 2004.
"The New Deal and EWTD are two of the most pressing Workforce issues facing us in the NHS today". Paul Thorpe, Chairman of BMA Junior Doctor committee. Source: Guidance on Working Patterns for Junior Doctors.
The Challenge
- Compliance of New Deal hours limits for all junior doctor posts
- Compliance of The European Working Time Directive (EWTD)
- To monitor doctors hours and for doctors to cooperate with this process
- Achieve and monitor rest and natural break targets – a 30 minute continuous rest and natural break for every 4 hours a junior doctor is on duty
The Solution
- Fully integrated Rostering, Auto-Rostering, Self-Rostering, Self-Service and Attendance Management
- Configurable Working Time Directive functionality
- Comprehensive roster rules engine to accommodate New Deal rules
- Flexible, user-defined roster patterns to accommodate changing roster requirements
- Options for biometric attendance recording for accurate monitoring
- Options for Timesheet data entry into ESR
- Functionality to support productivity recording and reporting
The Benefits
- Ensures conformance to EWTD and New Deal thus avoiding penalties. Fines of £5000 per infringement are now in place.
- Dramatically reduces the administration time associated with roster creation
- Provides effective forward planning; new rosters can be tested & modelled
- Controls and monitors leave allocation via SMART Absence Management linked to ESR
- Contributes to Improving Working Lives
For further information please contact SMART
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