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Thank you to those who attended the 2009 Conference
'Driving Quality - Creating the Future'
The CODP would like to extend a warm thanks to all who attended the successful 2009 Conference 'Driving Quality - Creating the Future' which was held on 8-9 May. Thank you for all of your extremely positive feedback which we will utilise to develop and improve next years conference 'Theatre, Lights, Action: Challenging and Improving Practice' on 7-8 May 2010.
Watch this space for further details!
IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ - College Statement
The College recognises that pay for on-call and stand-by duties can make a significant contribution to the income of individual ODPs and we would expect the current of review of emergency duty payments to recognise this fact and to ensure that members of the profession are appropriately rewarded for providing cover during unsocial hours.
We are though concerned that future arrangements should not endorse working practices and rotas that significantly compromise a practitioners right to appropriate periods of rest, as defined by the European Working Times Directive and articulated in Section 27 of the Agenda for Change Service Handbook. Appropriate periods of rest are important for the welfare of the individual practitioner and their effectiveness and ability in the clinical environment. Inadequate rest may ultimately compromise patient safety.
It is generally, well understood that employees should receive an average of 11 hours of rest in each 24 hour period and that this may be averaged over a 17 week reference period. It is perhaps less-well recognised that employees are entitled to 35 hours of uninterrupted rest in each 7 day period, or 70 hours of rest in each period of 14 days. This rest should be either one continuous period of 70 hours or two separate 35 hour periods. This requirement should be recognised in any rota that requires the practitioner to provide on-call cover over a weekend period as each call or other work related activity will breach the continuity of what would otherwise be a period of rest (time spent 'standing-by', where the practitioner is required to sleep in the hospital, counts as working time).
Bill Kilvington
President
The College of Operating Department Practitioners
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Fantastic New Publication!
Operating Department Practice, Clinical Pocket Reference.
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