Working Time - Doctors

This directive (2000/34/EC) has been approved and was published in the Official Journal on 1 August 2000.

http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2000:195:SOM:EN:HTML

Deadline for transposition of the Directive - as regards doctors in training - was 01.08.2004.

The maximum working hours of junior doctors will be reduced in stages. The Department of Health is overseeing implementation in the UK. For DoH guidance see http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HumanResourcesAndTraining/WorkingDifferently/EuropeanWorkingTimeDirective/fs/en

(Last updated on 14 June 2006)