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NHS Employers released a statement following the uproar saying current guidance stipulating junior doctors working consecutive weekends "should be avoided where possible" but there was no guarantee.
This was because our study was designed to evaluate physiological changes during the daytime after working consecutive night shifts and to avoid cortisol concentrations' being influenced by an acute effect.
Although there was no statistically significant difference in the average self-reported TST among the three groups, it is possible that poor sleep quality in the daytime when working consecutive night shifts caused a sleep debt, which then affected the ability to maintain wakefulness during the daytime of the off day after consecutive night shifts.
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Instead NHS Employers said they would issue "good practice guidance" asking trusts to avoid scheduling junior doctors to work consecutive weekends.
They insist no junior doctor will be made to work consecutive weekends, but that they will be allowed to if they wish.
A spokesperson said: "The Secretary of State has been clear that under the new contract no junior doctor will be forced to work consecutive weekends - although he accepts the BMA argument that if doctors choose to work consecutive weekends, perhaps to allow them to take more time off subsequently, the new contract should not prevent this.
Sir David also made new assurances that no junior doctor will have to work consecutive Saturdays and that any medic working one in three Saturdays would receive extra out-of-hours payments on those days.
Junior doctors have reacted with fury after new example rotas show them working both Saturday and Sunday up to three weeks in a row despite a pledge by Jeremy Hunt to never force them to work consecutive weekends.
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