28 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt and the health minister in the Lords, Philip Hunt, should resign over the MTAS scandal, delegates at today’s BMA junior doctors conference agreed.
They also voted unanimously that the National Audit Office should investigate the waste of public money which the whole system has caused.
27 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
As angry junior doctors meet tomorrow for their annual BMA conference, the government has issued a formal statement in the Commons saying it has temporarily suspended the MTAS site following the security breach earlier this week.
“This breach had no impact on the current recruitment of junior doctors into specialty training,” health secretary Patricia Hewitt told the house.
26 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Personal details of applicants involved in the already discredited MTAS system were available for all to see yesterday — until the Department of Health stepped in and closed the loophole which had allowed anyone to view the page without the need for a password. more…
24 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Some 400 junior doctors joined the rally outside parliament today and many of them went on to lobby their individual MPs in the Commons.
The action, organised by Remedy UK, coincided with an opposition debate on the MTAS debacle. more…
21 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
There has been an outcry at the news that one briefing paper to the MTAS review group suggests doctors who can’t find a job in the UK should consider working for Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) instead.
The BMA says the government’s failures in workforce planning have created this mess.
16 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has today issued an apology to those caught up in the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) crisis, acknowledging that it had been a time of ‘great distress’ to them.
And she announced another review, this time of the whole of the Modernising Medical Careers policy, rather than just of MTAS. It would look into ways of strengthening the policy for next year, she said.
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.
5 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
The MTAS review group has agreed to recommend a special case should be made for junior doctors wishing to pursue a career in surgery.
There will be special transitional arrangements to cope with the large number of Senior House Officers and others in non-training grades wanting to enter year 3 specialist training posts, said Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons and a member of the review group. more…
4 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
The Department of Health has set out a compromise deal to try to end the confusion and anger over interviews for junior doctor posts in England.
It announced late this afternoon that candidates for posts in England who have already been interviewed would not have to opt ‘blind’ for one post, without knowing the outcome of the interview, or what the competition was.
Instead, all interviews offered will count, says the MTAS review group. But applicants will only be offered one position, based on which was their preferred post.
3 Apr, 07 | by BMJ Group
32000 junior doctors are chasing the 18500 jobs which are going to available from 1 August, says the BMA in a statement issued this morning. And some are inevitably going to be disappointed, it says.
The BMA says an analysis of the figures on the MTAS website shows that the actual number of UK specialist training posts available is 18,518 – not between 22,000 and 23,000 as the government has indicated. more…
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