Letter : Overworked junior doctors save money
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: The Government's desire to renege on the New Deal agreement and to increase junior doctors' maximum working hours is hardly surprising ("Ministers want doctors to work 83-hour weeks", 28 November).
So long as junior doctors are paid at a reduced hourly rate for overtime (over 40 hours per week) then it is in the financial interests of the paymaster to increase not reduce their hours. The alternative of providing training for junior doctors rather than "experience" is even more expensive.
RICHARD ROGERS
Senior Registrar in Anaesthesia
London SE11
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