Safe Working Hours is a campaign that unites healthcare workers and members of the public to make working hours safer for patients and safer for doctors.
New article about Extended Shifts (that's "calls", even though many people just work a 30 hour shift - hence extended shifts) as an occupational hazard:
https://t.co/BNhQmAfSdm
I really don’t get the “I suffered and turned out fine, now so must you” crew.
Personally, I want new baby doctors to have every fulfilling experience I never had. I want them to dodge all the negative things I had to endure. We gotta evolve as a fraternity.
I really don’t get the “I suffered and turned out fine, now so must you” crew.
Personally, I want new baby doctors to have every fulfilling experience I never had. I want them to dodge all the negative things I had to endure. We gotta evolve as a fraternity.
Now, more than ever, we need to take an occupational hygiene approach to health worker safety. Read our article to find out how this applies to working hours for doctors: https://t.co/BNhQmAfSdm @HeleneMarivdW@HPCSA_@SAMedicalAssoc@mark_sonderup
@HeleneMarivdW Even if the pilot has done it, "like a thousand times before and nothing went wrong"? Even if "we've always done it this way"? Even if the pilot wonders "how are the junior pilots going to learn"?
4/ Longest shift in the literature? 76 hours continuously. 😱😴That is madness, yet doctors in South Africa still frequently work dangerously long hours. The is your wake up call, medical profession. /End
3/ What should be done? Extended working hours should be seen as an occupational hazard, they should have a cap on maximum shift duration (suggest 16 hours), and we should mitigate the risk of fatigue (eg pre-call naps, lighting to sustain wakefulness)
2/ what happens on an uncapped, continuous shift? Doctors sustain more needlestick injuries, make medication & diagnostic errors and have 2.3 X increase risk of car crash on the way home See this ‘share your story’ video https://t.co/jpbvUYYsrK linked to the article
1/ Would you get on a plane with a pilot who has been awake for >24h? Probably not. Also regulations protect you. Why are the working hours of doctors different? Read our commentary featuring a case study of the South African @SafeWorkHours campaign here: https://t.co/JKuP9vXdY3
Shout out to Koot for leading this effort, @eldivl@farahjawitz for collaborating, Prof Rodney Ehrlich for guidance, and the many junior doctors who have participated in the different phases of the @SafeWorkHours campaign 🏥
@HPCSA_ ethical rules should guide the profession. They have published numerous guidelines, but are mostly silent on working hour organization. When are we going to close this ethical guidance gap? #HPCSAConference2019#safeworkinghours
In his presentation, Prof Binu Luke tackles the issue of Medical internship training in South Africa, 2020 and beyond. A transformational plan for health service delivery. #HPCSAConference2019
A lot of interest in #safeworkinghours and creating a multi-stakeholder platform for dicuss ways forward. People are waking up to the risk.
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@KootKotze asking a question about regulation of unsafe working hours to the deputy Director General @HealthZA
Response: A working hour cap has already been agreed upon.
?! We're all ears! but this would only be the first step in the conversation.
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