Remedy UK to pursue legal action
10 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Remedy UK, the organisation behind the protest marches against MTAS, has decided it will continue its legal action — despite the latest compromise proposals aimed at ensuring appointments can be made in time for August, when posts become vacant.
Matt Jameson Evans, speaking for the organisation, said they had yet to receive a response from the lawyers at either the MTAS review team or the deaneries to their proposed legal challenge.
He argues the system being proposed is unfair because different candidates are being treated differently.
“That’s no way to launch people’s future career,” he said. “You’ve got people interviewed for the same job months apart. They will have different sorts of interviews, and different interview panels. There is no equity there.”
He said they would not be challenging the plans to go ahead with appointments to jobs starting in August. But they will suggest that these appointments should merely be temporary ones. “They should be accredited towards training, but be renegotiated for February,” he suggested. Jobs starting in February could be made on the basis of a fairer appointments system, he said.
The firm of lawyers dealing with their case, Leigh Day and Co, are well known for their clinical negligence and human rights work.
Mr Jameson Evans said they would be putting the Remedy UK case forward as an employment issue rather than a human rights one.
He was not prepared to comment on how the legal action was being funded.
i am an overseas graduate & a victim of the poor working of mtas ,i was allocated to a foundation school via the mtas & was called for pre-employment checks ,i had came from my home country just to attend these checks & u know what at the end the foundation school says
they regret that i cannot be offered a post coz i couldnot clear the pre-employment checks,at least i should be given a chance to prove myself &how can u judge some one by scoring him or her in a five minutes station
& what was the purpose of shortlisting so many senior doctors for f1 posts via the bmj when they cant offer posts to those who were allocated via mtas . can u help me what should i do?
DR RUQIA ALAM
April 28th, 2007 at 8:29 pm