Changes in weekly working hours, proportion of doctors with hours above the limitations of European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and time spent on direct patient care for doctors in Norway from 2016 to 2019: a study based on repeated surveys.

17 Another panel study with data from 2010 to 2019 documented a significant increase in high levels of work stress for GPs and showed an increasing trend of stress for hospital doctors. 18 An important aspect of this was constant time pressure due to a heavy workload. 18 In Norway, the vast majority of doctors work full-time, but part-time work is possible as well.

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43 Proportion of doctors with work hours above the limitations of EWTD (>48 hours/week) and part-time work (<37 hours/week) The proportion of doctors who reported working >48 hours/week (higher than the limitations in EWTD) was high among all job positions, with an increasing trend for GPs and hospital doctors in leading positions and a decreasing trend for specialty registrars.

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This contradicts previous national studies in Norway based on data from the same unbalanced cohort of 1994–2014, which showed a trend towards more part-time work (<37 hours/week) for specialty registrars and senior hospital consultants (6.3% to 10.0%), specialists in private practice (14.8% to 25%) and doctors in academia (3.9% to 12.5%). 31 Compared with doctors in our data from 2016 to 2019, the proportion of part-timers was

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