ALMOST half of all youth doctors are operative on shorthanded rotas according to one of the UKs heading healing bodies. The key of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) cut the series of hours doctors can work to 48 per week.The British Medical Association (BMA), that carried out the consult of some-more than 1,500 youth doctors, pronounced that hospitals are still struggling to cope 6 months after the EWTD came in to force.Dr Shree Datta, chair of the BMAs youth alloy committee, said: "It is transparent that it is an bland experience for youth doctors to be operative on inadequately-staffed rotas."Given that unsound staffing levels have been identified as a vital cause in the smoothness of poor care, it is necessary for studious reserve that this complaint is taken seriously."Of the vacancies, 4 out of ten were for dilettante trainees with at slightest five years of experience.Overall, 6 out of ten doctors operative in A&E pronounced there were vacancies on their rotas.Dr Datta said: "It is hugely shocking to find so most doctors are operative in teams short of experienced doctors."