Report on Questionnaire sent to BSPGHAN members on Quality of Service and Professional Quality of Life.
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Report on Questionnaire sent to BSPGHAN members on Quality of Service and Professional Quality of Life Alastair Baker, Variety Club Children's Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS on behalf of the BSPGHAN council & Myfanwy Morgan, Public Health Sciences, King's College London SE132D.- April 2004. Very rapid and major groups of changes in the NHS have been initiated by the government with enormous potential consequences for consultants. The first group include those associated with Clinical Governance (CG), while the second are changes in the relationships between hospital Trusts and their consultant employees in the new consultant contract (CC). Both have implications for hours of employment spent in hospital. An important component of the new contract is compliance with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) limiting working hours to 48 per week. Thirdly, changes in junior doctors' hours driven by EWTD, national sympathy for junior doctors' poor conditions of service, and changes in...

