When a scanner to diagnose a critical patient does not have a 24-hour on-call person to work it, there is dismay and disbelief.
Those junior doctors on call will, equally, receive the same on-call payments as they would at other bank holidays.
It comprises a small number of in-house translators exercising quality control who supervise a large pool of experienced and trusted on-call translators and interpreters.
Even if on-call cardiologists are not available there, at least the hospital can stabilise the patient and transfer him to an acute general hospital elsewhere.
Either opt-outs continue, and are properly regulated, because we now know from the case-law to date that on-call time is a major issue.
Another aspect of general practice that patients are not cheering is on-call services performed by locums.
It is, moreover, absurd, not to include on-call duty that can be spent asleep as working time.
They will also promote action to improve junior doctors on-call accommodation and out-of-hours catering facilities.
