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 […]
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BMA warns that thousands will be jobless
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 […]
Still waiting…
Junior doctors who had hoped to hear from today exactly what the arrangements will be for the single guaranteed interview process in England are unlikely to know until Wednesday or […]
Remedy UK plans legal challenge
Remedy UK, the organisation behind the MTAS protest marches in London and Glasgow, is to launch a legal challenge to the single interview process planned for junior doctors in England. […]
Scotland and Wales go it alone
In the latest move over medical training applications, England remains isolated in its decision to offer applicants just one interview for a post. Wales and Scotland have decided they will each […]
MMC head resigns
The national director of Modernising Medical Careers, Professor Alan Crockard, has resigned over the MTAS debacle. He sent a letter last night to the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, saying […]
Attend your interviews, applicants told
Applicants under MTAS who have already been offered interviews in round one have been asked to carry on and attend these — even if they have more than one interview […]
Surgeons warn of MTAS interviews’ impact on NHS
The Royal College of Surgeons has warned that the plans to offer all applicants on round one of the MTAS application process an interview will have a detrimental knock-on effect […]
BMA pulls out of MTAS talks
The BMA has pulled out of talks on the review of MTAS. Proposals issued by the review group last night would have limited each junior doctor to just one interview […]
No news…could be good news?
Despite a meeting of the MTAS review group yesterday, there’s been a deathly silence from the Department of Health on its progress. All that the BMA – one of the […]