Lothian NHS Board
Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 3EG
Telephone 0131 536 9000
Fax 0131 536 9088
www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
Date 26/02/13
Our Ref 3606
Dear
Enquiries to Richard Mutch
Extension 35687
Direct Line 0131 465 5687
Email richard.mutch@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION – JUNIOR DOCTOR ROTAS
I write in response to your request for information in relation to junior doctor rotas under the New
Deal. Please note that there are no trusts within the NHS in Scotland.
I have been provided with information to help answer your request by Ms Jackie Houston,
Head of Employee Relations - Medical and Dental, NHS Lothian.
Question:-
1. How many junior doctors (doctors in training) do you currently employ in your Trust/ Health
Board?
Answer:-
There are currently 854.93 whole time equivalent junior doctors within NHS Lothian.
Question:-
2. How many monitoring exercises of junior doctors’ rotas under the New Deal have the hospitals
in your Trust/Health Board undertaken since August 2009 to the date of this email request
(1 st February, 2013)?
Answer:-
Since August 2009 there have been 1,006 monitoring exercises undertaken.
Question:-
3. How many times have individual junior doctors’ working hours monitored as non-compliant
under New Deal requirements at the hospitals in your Trust/Health Board in the following
periods:
Answer:-
Between Aug-
Dec 2009;
In 2010 In 2011 In 2012 In 2013 to date?
1 0 1 0 0
Question:-
Headquarters
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Chair Dr Charles J Winstanley
Chief Executive Tim Davison
Lothian NHS Board is the common name of Lothian Health Board
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4. Have you identified any actual OR potential breaches of the EWTD (European Working Time
Directive) with regard to junior doctors working for your Trust/Health Board? If so on how many
occasions did such actual OR potential breaches of the EWTD occur and how many junior
doctors were affected?
Answer:-
Between Aug-
Dec 2009;
0 0
In 2010 In 2011 In 2012 In 2013 to date?
35 occasions,
23 junior
doctors affected
9 occasions, 7
junior doctors
affected
Question:-
5. If you have identified any actual OR potential breaches of the EWTD what action have you
taken to remedy such actual or potential breaches of the EWTD?
Answer:-
Re-enforcement of the Compensatory Rest Policy. Revision of the rota template with shorter
shift lengths/reduced post-call day to ensure rota is more robust.
Question:-
6. Is your Trust fully compliant with its obligations under the New Deal and the EWTD? At what
date did your Trust/ Health Board become New Deal and/or EWTD compliant?
Answer:-
Yes, since August 2009
Question:-
7. In the latest 12 month period for which data is available, have any hospitals in your
Trust/Health Board scheduled junior doctors to work 7 night shifts in a row?
Answer:-
No junior doctor has been scheduled to work 7 night shift in a row in the last 12 months.
Question:-
8. How many hospitals in your Trust/Health Board routinely schedule Consultants to work
physically on-site during out of hours (weekend and night) shifts?
Answer:-
This information is not held in a centrally recorded extractable format.
0
Question:-
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9. How many hospitals in your Trust/Health Board routinely schedule Consultants to work
physically on-site during out of hours (weekend and night) shifts in departments that do not
specialise in accidents and emergencies?
Answer:-
This information is not held in a centrally recorded extractable format.
I hope the information provided helps with your request.
If you are unhappy with our response to your request, you do have the right to request us to review
it. Your request should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this letter, and we will reply
within 20 working days of receipt. If our decision is unchanged following a review and you remain
dissatisfied with this, you then have the right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information
Commissioner.
If you require a review of our decision to be carried out, please write to the FOI Reviewer at the
address at the head of this letter. The review will be undertaken by a Reviewer who was not
involved in the original decision-making process.
FOI responses (subject to redaction of personal information) may appear on NHS Lothian’s
Freedom of Information website at :-
http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/YourRights/FOI/Pages/default.aspx
Yours sincerely
ALAN BOYTER
Director of Human Resources
and Organisational Development
Cc: Chief Executive
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