“The same community rules relating to the maximum duration of the average weekly working time of 48 hours, the minimum daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours, as well as the minimum weekly rest period of 24 consecutive hours, also apply to trainees” and as establishes a note from the Ministry in line with European legislation. “The Anaao Youth sector and the ALS Association – in a note – thank the General Directorate of health professions and human resources of the NHS of the Ministry of Health, and more precisely the Director Doctor Mariella Mainolfi, for the recent note regarding compliance with working hours of doctors in specialist training. This note reiterates that for specialist doctors the European Regulation 2003/88/EC is authentic, which has effectively consolidated and replaced the previous directives 93/104/EC and 2000/34/EC, with the consequence that the same community rules apply also for the latter relating to the maximum duration of 48 hours of the average weekly working time, the minimum daily rest period of 11 consecutive hours, as well as the minimum weekly rest period of 24 consecutive hours “.
“We cannot fail to consider this recent note as an epochal turning point – write the specialists – considering that it also and above all derives from our various reports and above all considering that it contains a formal recommendation for the maximum diffusion of what has been expressed so that within the healthcare networks it is the use of attendance recording tools is guaranteed, urging their implementation and strengthening in the healthcare facilities of the networks where the training takes place, a recommendation already implemented by the Ministry of the University and sent to all universities hosting specialization schools. the consequence of years of representation activities, which we are committed to increasing, to put an end to too many situations in which trainees, in defiance of current legislation, act as stopgaps in too many university departments with working hours that are not compatible with regulations. , in consideration of this recent one, a rapid establishment of the new National Observatory of Healthcare Training to immediately start working on the 2024 accreditations”.
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