Accommodation
Further correspondence concerning the loss of free accommodation for FY1 doctors
In July 2008 Ram Moorthy wrote to Ann Keen MP regarding the loss of free accommodation for FHO1s and requesting a meeting to discuss the matter further. This is her response, in which she declines the invitation to meet the JDC, along with some further comment from the JDCBMA rebuttal of arguments put forward by the Department of Health in England regarding the removal of free accommodation for first-year Foundation House Officers, June 2008
Responses from the association to the arguments made by the Government in response to our campaign on the removal of free accommodation.Be safe: be rested, June 2008
A campaign by the Junior Doctors Committee asking hospital trusts not to remove their on-call rooms, with the consequent loss of access to a bed for junior doctors.BMA action on free accommodation for foundation house officers
Details of BMA action on the removal of the entitlement for free accommodation for pre registration doctors - including the background as to why this happened in the first place.BMA calls for pay uplift as junior doctors lose right to free accommodation, 16 November 2007
The Health Secretary has admitted to being 'unaware' that first year junior doctors lost their entitlement to free accommodation following amendments to the Medical Act.Guidance on free accommodation for PRHOs, October 2007
Doctors in year one of the foundation programme are entitled to free hospital accommodation and should continue to be offered this during 2007.Joint position statement on on-call rooms
A joint statement from the Junior Doctors Committee and the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges' Trainees' Committee in June 2006 on the need for doctors to have adequate rest, and for hospitals to retain existing on-call rooms.Standards for living and working conditions for hospital doctors in training
This revised guidance takes forward the provisions for accommodation and catering set out in living and working conditions for hospital doctors in training first agreed in 2001.
Accommodation inspection campaign - England
Get involved in the campaign on the loss of free hospital accommodation for first year junior doctors. Inspection pack now available for members.Read more here