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