Further Guidance

In order to assist with this process a range of guidance will be made available prepared by the Department of Health and other stakeholders. The Department of Health's EWTD website -http:// www. doh. gov. uk/ workingtime/ -will include copies or full details of all the guidance currently available. Annex B also gives details for accessing additional supporting information. Other factors impacting on the working hours of doctors in training

· Details of the pilot projects and the lessons emerging from them The website will provide a live source of information on the types of solution being tested within the pilots and the lessons being learned. This will be updated regularly during the pilot programme and will also link to similar work being taken forward in other NHS Trusts.

· Details of good practice from other NHS Trusts which are not one of the pilot projects This section already includes some information and will updated on a regular basis to reflect other work being done in the NHS to achieve EWTD compliance for doctors in training.

· Guidance on working patterns for doctors A document jointly prepared by the BMA, DH, National Assembly for Wales and the NHS Confederation providing practical advice on moving medical working patterns to New Deal and EWTD compliance.

· Guidance from the Academy of Royal Colleges (AoMRC) The AoMRC has produced a short document on key issues such as cross-cover, tiers of cover, skill-mix and service configuration. The paper also gives the AoMRC's commitment to work with Postgraduate Deans, DH and NHS managers to find ways of implementing the EWTD for doctors in training while protecting service delivery and training.

· Department of Health advisory framework for configuring hospitals Guidance on developing service models, which deliver modernisation of services and which are also viable within the EWTD.

· A Practical Guide to Liberating Learning (COPMED) This document is a practical, working document to be used within the context of clinical training. It consists of an introduction, which sets the context of learning within the planned implementation of the EWTD and a matrix of learning strategies that can be used to help trainers, and learners exploit and maximise the time and opportunities that are available for learning.

· Guidance on software to support medical rostering A small technical group consisting of NHS managers, doctors in training' Regional Action Team representatives, DH representatives and members of NAMPS (National Association of Medical Personnel Specialists) met in 2001 to look at software packages available for monitoring New Deal/ EWTD compliance. A link from the DH website to their report, which includes the monitoring guidance/ criteria, will be established when the document is available.

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