NHS trusts waste effort chasing EU working time directive
Trusts are wasting millions of pounds and losing thousands of service hours over-preparing for the European working time directive, figures shared exclusively with HSJ reveal.Others risk prosecution and fines because the way they are assessing junior doctors' compliance with the directive does not match the EU measurement.
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