‘Doctors’ training must count as work’
The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) took the Government to the court to force it to bring junior doctors’ working hours within legal limits. Junior doctors can face 32-hour shifts and up to 100 hours a week.
However, the court’s advocate general focused on another issue — the fact that the 20 to 27 hours a month training time for the 4,500 trainee doctors is not counted as work.
