title: Junior doctors. Night vision.
abstract: By establishing separate timetables for senior house officers and registrars, an obstetrics and gynaecology department has been able to reduce out-of-hours work while offering training relevant to the doctors' proposed careers. Following the establishment of a daily, open-access gynaecology clinic, extending the role of midwives has reduced the out-of-hours workload of junior doctors. Emergency admissions, a major feature of out-of-hours work, have fallen by a quarter.
authors.affiliation: Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Read
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Draycott
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Beckwith
mesh_terms: D001071:Appointments and Schedules; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009551:Night Care; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D013222:State Medicine; D017748:Time Management; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce