Dorset County Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

This pilot project set out to reduce the pressure on junior doctors, enhance the training, skills and opportunities of a wide range of staff by developing enhanced and extended roles ensuring compliance with the Working Time Directive 2009. The pilot intends to create a clinical decision unit and adopt new ways of working to reduce the waiting time for assessment and treatment.

The project will continue to build upon a programme of change already underway and provides the opportunity to test, develop and evaluate interventions to achieve high quality 24:7 care within the framework of the Working Time Directive 2009.

Pilot duration: December 2006 - September 2008