Juniors' new deal on hours.

Juniors' new deal meets its first deadline.

Juniors' hours: is the end in sight?

The question of how to reduce junior doctors' hours has taxed the government and hospital managers for nearly two decades. Now regional task forces are being asked to get them down to a maximum of 83 a week by 1 April next year. From a comparison of the way in which two different task forces (Northern and North West Thames) have responded to the challenge it emerges that most units will probabl...

Out-of-hours work in cardiothoracic surgery: implications of the New Deal and Calman for training.

With the introduction of the New Deal and the Calman Report, the duration of higher specialist training will be halved. We have examined the effect of reduced on-call rotas on exposure to relatively uncommon out-of-hours emergencies in cardiothoracic surgery. Operations for post-infarction ventricular septal defect, aortic dissection or transection, oesophageal perforation and pulmonary embolus...

Radio’s Impact on New Deal Spending

Mass media carry political information to the voter. This makes voters using mass media more likely to respond to campaign promises and to hold politicians accountable for cuts that hurt them. As a consequence, politicians should target voters using mass media. These ideas are developed in a voting model which is then used as a basis for empirical investigation. To isolate the e¤ects of mass me...

A Group of Juniors

This slim book, with its attractive dust cover, presents from the first glance an air of freshness and youth, the very essence of the juniors' attitude which it portrays. The first half of the book consists of a "Diary"? records of some of the conversations, drawings and activities of a group of twelve children in a progressive co-educational boarding school. The author made " no selection what...