Doctors consider industrial action over 80-hour weeks

Junior doctors often work 80 hours weekly including shifts of up to 30 hours.

Hospital doctors in training are considering industrial action for the second time in less than a decade as “dangerous” work practices continue, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) said.

Junior doctors often work 80 hours weekly including shifts of up to 30 hours, said Dr John Cannon, committee chair for the union’s non-consultant hospital doctors.