I wish to deal briefly with an aspect of the report that has not received much attention in the debate during the past week. I refer here to the necessity to reduce substantially the average working hours of junior doctors. At present, non-consultant hospital doctors work an average of 75 hours per week on-site. Some work considerably more than this. Under the European Working Time Directive, we must reduce average weekly working hours to no more than 58 by next August and to a maximum of 48 by August 2009, less than six years from now.