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Recruitment to specialist training: a resource guide for selectors
Information Commissioner Enquiry form . for use if a request for information under the DPA is refused
17 March Protest Demonstration
24 May 07 Judicial review decision
Submissions to Tooke Review
Royal College Statements
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
15 May 07 Update on MTAS: Bulletin – 11 May 2007
E-mail Announcement: Wednesday 21st March 2007
Royal College of Anaesthetists
18 May 07 Open Letter to Secretary of State
Royal College of Surgeons (Eng)
25 May Email to members re withdraing from review
22 May 07 College Response to Remedy UK’s Judicial Review
03 May 07 Modernising Medical Careers: a response from two Presidents of The Royal Colleges
27 April 07 Email To Members and Fellows
RCS Statement 23 March 07
Royal College of Physicians
09 Oct 07 RCP comment on Tooke review of MMC
Jun 07 The RCP submits evidence to the Independent Review of MMC
17 May 07 Email to members and letter to Secretary of State
03 May 07 Modernising Medical Careers: a response from two Presidents of The Royal Colleges
05 April Presidents update on MTAS
RCP Presidential e-bulletin: 15 March 2007
RCP Statement RCP wrongly accused of trying to undermine Remedy UK march 19 March 07
RCP position on MTAS/MMC 17 march 07
Email to members :MODERNISING MEDICAL CAREERS 15 March 07
Statement re MTAS/MMC 2 march 07
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Further MTAS Update - 4 May 2007
20 April 07 Letter to Deputy CMO
MTAS and Selection of Trainees to our Specialty - Letter to Fellows and Members 12 March 2007
Royal College of Pathologists
17 May 07 Government review of Medical Training Application Service
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
President's Message 23 March 2007
Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
11 May 07 MTAS statement from the Chairmen of the BMA and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
7 March Trainee Group Press statement
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
4th President's Statement on MTAS (23 March 2007)
Statement on the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) No 3 (19 March 2007)
Statement on the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) No 2 (12 March 2007)
College statement on the problems of the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) - 7 March 2007
Royal College of Psychiatrists
16 May 07 The Royal College of Psychiatrists welcomes the Government’s decision to abandon the MTAS process
20 April 07 College Officers’ Respond to MTAS Selection Process
20 April 07 Letter to Deputy CMO
College of Emergency Medicine
Faculty of Occupational Medicine
25 March 2007 Faculty issues press statement regarding MTAS
Royal College of General Practitioners
16 march 07 Royal College of General Practitioners shows solidarity with junior hospital doctors
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
20 April 2007 Letter to Deputy CMO
PMETB
July 07 PMETB submission to Tooke Review
02 Jun 07 Times letter
19 March 07 PMETB statement on MTAS
13 March 07 A review of MTAS and selection: PMETB Principles for entry to specialist training
Deans and PGIs, Groups of Doctors and others
18 May 07 Association of British Neurologists Update on ST3 appointments 16th May 2007
15 May 07 Offers for Northern Deanery Applicants
06 May 07 MTAS: National Poll rejects single interviews, and calls for Consultant boycott
04 May 07 Eastern Deanery Email Re: Interview Panels for Core Surgical Training – Urgent Request
27 April 07 Association of British Neurologists Trainees
21 April 07 Leaked Document-MAXIMISING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
20 April 07 British Cardiac Society
13 April 07 Association of British Neurologists (ABN) Position Statement
13 April 07 Statement from Worthing Consultants
04 April 07 Prof Heards' resignation letter
31 march 07 letter from MMC student advisor to CMO
16 March 07 MMC Student Advisor: resignation letter
30 March 07 Prof Crockard Email to CMO
29 March 07 Psychiatry Training Committee Statement
29 March 07 Mums4medics email to GMC
26 March 07 Letter from Guy's and St Thomas' Trust
26 March 07 British Association of Otorhinologists - Head and Neck Surgeons email to members 26 March 07
23 March 07 Wessex ST1 competition ratios
22 March 07 NHS West Midlands Workforce Deanery Briefing Note
22 March 07 Brtish Orthopaedic Trainees Association
21 March 07 Responses of BAPRAS Members and Trainees to the MTAS System
20 March 07 ST3 Neurology: London/KSS
15 March 07 Welsh Consultants Committee
16 March 07 British Thoracic Society
March 2007 London/KSS
5 March 2007 West Midlands ST3 Appointments Committee
5 March 2007 Association of Surgeons in Training
March 2007 Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
Association of Surgeons in Training
St Marys Hospital
Chairs, W Midlands ST3
North West Plastic Surgeons
North Central London School of Anaesthesia
St Georges Consultants
An open letter to Patricia Hewitt, DOH,MMC, PMTEB,Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
letter - Scotland CMO to MPs
Asssociation of Anaesthetists
July 07 Letter from President of AAGBI
July 07 GAT letter to Tooke Review
Letter to Professor Neil Douglas from GAT
BBC TV
Question time 4 May 07 excerpt
BBC Online
08 Oct 07 Doctor training 'overhaul needed'
31 July 07 Warnings as junior doctors start
21 May 07 Doctors - a profession on the edge
20 May 07 BMA chairman quits in letter row
18 May 07 PM 'must act' in medic jobs row
15 May 07 Doctor application system ditched
28 April 07 Doctors call for Hewitt to resign
27 April 07 PM 'must act' over medic training
26 April 07 Doctor training 'security lapse'
26 April 07 Doctors' job website is suspended
23 April 07 What could jobless doctors do?
20 April 07 Rescue package for doctors leaked
16 April 07 Junior doctors lobby at Stormont
04 April 07 Doctors training crisis 'averted'
03 April 07 Hewitt apology for training chaos
22 March 07 Doctors abandon talks on job row
17 March 07 I'm leaving the NHS for New Zealand
17 March 07 Doctors protest over recruitment
17 March 07 Junior doctors protest over jobs
17 March 07 BBC video news report
10 March 07 Doctors' selection system changed
09 March 07 Doctors' selection system changed
07 March 07 BBC breakfast interview
06 March 07 Review into doctor recruitment
02 March 2007 Jobs protest planned by doctors
29 Nov 2005 Student doctors say many may quit
BBC Radio
02 March 07 Radio Cornwall Laurence Reed show
02 March 07 Radio4 You and yours
07 March 07 Radio Cornwall Laurence Reed Show
ITV
24 April 07 Trainee doctors 'will go abroad'
5 Feb 2007 Junior doctors fear for jobs
Channel 4 News
25 July 07 Johnson: recruitment reform bungled
17 July 07 Fears for Doctors
27 June 07 Junior doctors' contracts extended
19 May 07 Hewitt 'misled Commons' over MTAS
15 May 07 Doctors' online system scrapped
14 May 07 More problems for MTAS?
14 May 07 Channel 4 news -MTAS disaster (video)
04 May 07 NHS hit by further IT chaos
26 April 07 More NHS security flaws
24 April 07 Doctor website scandal: how did it happen?
24 April 07 MTAS Privacy Cock-Up (video clip)
20 April 07 Junior doctors to work overseas?
17 March 07 Junior doctors in jobs dispute
Sky News
20 May 07 Chairman Resigns Over Doctors' Row
24 April 07 Doctors' Bleak Job Prospects
10 March 07 Medical Recruitment Crisis
The Lancet
01 May 07 All the Presidents Men
17 March 07 MMC: mass medical culling
Hospital Consultant and Specialists Association
23 MArch 07 HCSA pledges further support for trainees
BMA Scottish Consultants Committee meeting
18 May 07 BMA SCC resolution 18 May 07
British Medical Association/British Medical Journal
18 Mar 08 Government’s response to the Tooke inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers (Editorial)
09 Oct 07 BMA comment on Tooke inquiry into medical training
22 Jun 07 The British Medical Association’s Response to the Sir John Tooke Modernising Medical Careers Inquiry
04 Jun 07 An open letter to the medical profession
26 May 07 BMA chairman resigns over MTAS letter to the Times
20 May 07 Mr James Johnson is resigning as Chairman of Council
18 May 07 Update – latest on MTAS and judicial review
16 May 07 High court examines MTAS fiasco
15 May 07 MTAS abandoned - BMA press release
15 May 07 A letter to all junior members, 15 May
11 May 07 MTAS statement from the Chairmen of the BMA and Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
05 May 07 We are alive and kicking and have upped our game (BMJ letters)
13 April 07 Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) and annual leave for consultants
07 April 07 The royal colleges must up their game—or die
19 April 07 Letter to MPs from BMA
19 April 07 Independent review of MMC confirmed by the Government
16 April 07 Government must not allow doctors' careers to be ruined, says BMA leader
13 April 07 Joint message from Chairman of Council and BMA craft committee chairs about MTAS
04 April 07 BMA responds to new junior doctor recrutiment and selection proposals
30 March 07 MCC head resigns
23 March 07 BMA Scotland Press Release: Junior doctor recruitment system
23 March 07 BMA junior doctors leave talks on recruitment system
10 March 07 Junior Doctors call for immediate inquiry into training chaos
09 March 07 MTAS - Change to Round One process announced
06 March 07 Letter to Secretary of State (Dr Jo Hilborne and Dr Jonathan Fielden)
06 March 07 Review of flawed recruitment process welcome but does not go far enough
27 Feb 07 BMA Press Release
Department of Health / MMC team
Sep 07 MMC Consultation Document
03 Aug 07 Review of the Medical Training Applications Service and Selection Process 2007
22 May 07 Letter to Applicants - issued 22 May 2007
18 May 07 Email : Update to all Deaneries - Very Important
16 May 07 Latest Guidance for Applicants - issued 16 May 2007
15 May 07 Written Ministerial Statement
01 May 07 Statement concerning Website
27 April 07 Statement on MTAS issues
23 April 07 Tooke review terms of reference
MMC Statement for Consultants - 4 April 07
Written Ministerial Statement Department of Health 13 March 07
Email from MTAS 'REVIEW OF MODERNISING MEDICAL CAREERS'- 16 March 07
8 March 07 Prof Crockard email Re: Independent Review of Recruitment and Selection Process 2007
Scottish Executive/NHS Scotland
4 May 2007 Scotland announces job offers scheme
30 March 2007 Modernising Medical Careers In Scotland
Open letter on medical training 16 March 07
Northern Ireland Executive
Houses of Parliament (Hansard)
24 May 07 Ministerial Statement
Modernising medical Careers Debate 24 April 07
Medical Training Application Service 1 May 07
Health Select Committee
Memorandum by Work Psychology Partnership (MMC 52)- written evidence
Members of Parliament
Patricia Hewitt | Baroness Finlay | Dr Andrew Murrison | Lord Hunt | Andrew Lansley | Charles Kennedy | Norman Lamb | James Plaskitt | Richard Bacon | David Lidington | James Paice | Dr. Alasdair McDonnell | Michael Clapham | Dr Richard Taylor
Newspaper reports
Daily Express
20 March 07 9,000 Doctors may not get job
Independent and IoS
18 June 2007 Babies 'will be put at risk' as experienced doctors are replaced by trainees
16 May 07 Online doctor application system abandoned
29 March 07 These are dire days for young doctors
26 March 07 Appalling treatment of junior doctors (letters)
17 March 07 Self-promotion trumps hard work amid medical training chaos (letters)
05 March 07 NHS application system has meant job chaos for junior doctors(letters)
Daily Telegraph
Daily Telegraph 2 March-10 March
09 Oct 07 Online system for junior doctors scrapped
09 Aug 07 Sir Liam Donaldson must resign, says BMA
06 Aug 07 Junior doctors: the future of the fiasco
13 Jul 07 The new system has forced us to work hundreds of miles apart
13 Jul 07 What will happen to 13,000 jobless doctors?
02 July 07 I believed I had no future as a doctor
23 Jun 07 Fiasco over recruitment leaves doctors suicidal
19 May 07 Hewitt 'misled MPs' on junior doctor fiasco
19 May 07 Do we pay our doctors too much?
16 May 07 Hewitt shouldn't have the chance to resign
16 May 07 Hewitt admits defeat on doctors' job fiasco
16 May 07 How we broke the story
12 May 07 Recruitment fiasco critics sent 'gagging order'
07 May 07 Trust me, I'm a junior doctor: Don't give up hope
05 May 07 Hewitt is not what the doctors ordered
27 April 07 Security lapse in junior doctor jobs website
25 April 07 Junior doctor 'shambles' could force thousands overseas, warns BMA
17 April 07 Hewitt apologises over training chaos
12 April 07 Jobless doctors 'to be shipped overseas'
31 March 07 Prof Alan Crockard's letter of resignation
31 March 07 Expert in charge of doctors' jobs fiasco resigns
30 March 07 NHS training boss reported to GMC
23 March 07 Doctors' training system is plunged into new absurdity(letters)
22 March 07 Pressure on to scrap recruiting process
20 March 07 Hewitt admits online job applications confusion
19 March 07 It makes us so angry, such a waste
19 March 07 This is a fight we cannot afford to lose
18 March 07 Doctors chaos 'is worst crisis to hit NHS'
17 March 07 Doctors condemn 'degrading' training reforms
17 march 07 Doctors training system at 'breaking point'
16 March 07 Doctors' training debacle and the destruction of a profession ( letter)
16 March 07 Angry doctors to march over selection crisis
16 March 07 Medics are all there is to love about the NHS
15 March 07 Blair's parting gift: more doctors for fewer jobs
12 March 07 I wouldn't trust this system to select someone to water my plants
12 March 07 Hewitt told 'a year ago' about likely crisis over doctors' jobs
11 March 07 A bungled reform a day keeps the junior doctors away
Guardian/Observer
Guardian/Observer 2 March-10 March
09 Oct 07 What Tooke so long?
09 Oct 07 Training overhaul blamed for junior doctors fiasco
08 Oct 07 British medical graduates may be given priority on jobs
07 Oct 07 Inquiry raps doctor training reform
02 Aug 07 Row goes on as 30,000 doctors start new jobs
25 July 07 Botched operation
12 July 07 £2m cost of doctors jobs system
11 Jun 07 We need a national outcry
24 May 07 Hewitt vows to learn lessons from junior doctors chaos
23 May 07 Junior doctors lose court fight over jobs
21 May 07 Doctors chief quits over training fiasco
16 May 07 Hewitt abandons doctor applications system
16 May 07 Hewitt backs down in junior doctors row
16 May 07 We'll see you in court
14 May 07 Doctors seek judicial review on job selection
27 April 07 Exit wounds
27 April 07 Medical leaders should take a stand (letter)
26 April 07 Junior doctors' personal details made public in website blunder
21 April 07 Jobless junior doctors may be offered VSO work
5 April 07 Job deal fails to placate junior doctors
29 March 07 A medical game show
19 March 07 When gold won't buy quiet
18 March 07 Doctors march in row over training reforms
15 March 07 Specialist training for junior doctors is still a lottery
The Times and Sunday Times
06 Jan 08 Junior doctors in jobs scramble
06 Aug 07 Respect doctors
01 Aug 07 Cut through the fog of doctor training fiasco
27 Jul 07 Hundreds of doctors work with no checks
24 Jul 07 Is it worth going into medicine?
06 Jun 07 Junior doctors (Times letters 06 Jun 07
04 Jun 07 An open letter to the medical profession
02 Jun 07 Junior doctors (Times letters 02 Jun 07)
28 May 07 Junior Doctors (Times letters 28 May 07)
26 May 07 On her last legs, but still standing yeah yeah yeah
22 May 07 [[Health Department �broke law over doctors� job test scores�]]
17 May 07 Junior doctors
16 May 07 [[Ministers cave in over junior doctors� job computer system]]
14 May 07 Doctors' job system 'has failed at all stages - and its review is a fiasco too'
4 April 07 Time to junk the appointments system for doctors
31 March 07 [[Fiasco over doctors� jobs forces head of training to resign]]
21 March 07 Young doctors (letters)
11 March 07 [[It�s enough to make any doctor sick]]
09 March 07 Growing boycott of 'flawed' recruitment
07 March 07 Health chiefs retreat in row over training for junior doctors
07 March 07 All trained up, nowhere to go (letters)
06 March 07 Promotion scheme in chaos as surgeons quit �unfair� interviews
02 March 07 Trained young doctors condemned to the scrapheap(letters)
Financial Times
It is again time that Sir Liam steps down
By Jo Hilborne
11 Aug 07 It is again time that Sir Liam steps down
07 Sep 07 A terrible way to treat our doctors
Daily Mail
08 Oct 07 Government ignored warning of ward chaos
31 Jul 07 Fear of hospital chaos as 30,000 doctors start new jobs...on the same day
20 May 07 BMA chief resigns in junior doctors computer fiasco
16 May 07 Hewitt abandons hated doctors' online application system
24 March 07 The flight of the junior doctors
09 March 07 Interview chaos forces a U-turn over doctors (DM)
08 March 07 Government braced for mass revolt over 'shambolic' recruitment for junior doctors
07 March 07 Anger of the junior doctors left jobless
06 March 07 Doctor recruitment system 'fatally flawed'
The Herald /Sunday Herald
09 Oct 07 Working towards a medical crisis
22 Jun 07 Junior doctors: new system leaves careers in chaos
26 May 07 Outrage at another jobs fiasco for junior doctors
20 March 07 Blame for fiasco of doctor training
17 March 07 Doctors protest at reforms that ‘could jeopardise patient safety’
16 March 07 Doctors’ concerns are taken very seriously and Junior doctors let down by selection shambles (letters)
15 March 07 Most doctors despair of applications process
15 March 07 Rift over junior doctors shake-up
14 March 07 A close-up view of the stress and suffering (letters)
13 March 07 Modernising Medical Careers is going smoothly (letters)
12 March 07 Doctors to march in battle over jobs
12 March 07 What ails our Doctors (editorial)
11 March 07 Junior doctors deserve better than this
06 March 07 Chaos forces review of junior doctor recruitment
02 March 07 Chaotic changes affecting junior doctors (letters)
The Sunday Post
17 March 07 Angry doctors may go overseas
Reuters UK
23 Jun 07 Last day for junior doctor job offers
This is London
10 March 07 Interview chaos forces a U-turn over doctors
03 March 07 8,000 junior doctors 'might have to go abroad for work'
Medical News today
The Scotsman
19 March 07 Junior doctors raise funds to challenge MMC system
10 March 07 Climbdown over NHS jobs for junior doctors
07 March 07 Review of doctors' recruiting process ordered
07 March 07 NHS doctors "in despair" about career prospects
medindia.net
3 March 07 Total Mayhem In Online Medical Training System
Liverpool Daily Post
15 March 07 Mothers in fight for doctors’ NHS jobs
thisissouthwales.co.uk
06 Aug 08 New Junior Doctor Recruitment Scheme slammed by NHS Trust
icwales.co.uk
8 Mar 07 Selection 'farce' could result in doctor exodus
10 Mar 07 Climbdown in junior doctor row
Manchester.com
10 March 07 Government backdown on junior doctor system
thestirrer.co.uk
21 April 07 Jobless Doctors To be sent abroad
20 March 07 MMC: More Medics Cock-ups
13 March 07 Hewitt under Doctors orders
06 March 07 West Mids Doctors Boycott Job Interviews
03 March 07 Spamalot Comes To City Hospital
British Journal of Healthcare Management
20 April 07 British Journal of Healthcare Management 2007 (13) 120-1
Belfast Telegraph
16 April 07 Docs to meet MLAs over job loss fears
31 March 07 Fears 400 Ulster doctors may be jobless after new shake-up
Other websites
http://www.endthismadness.co.uk/ End this madness
http://www.modernisingmedicalcareers.com/
http://www.northernirishmedics.org.uk/
IT links
2 March 07 itpro Computerised medical recruitment system criticised
02 March 07 e-health-insider Junior doctors say training website is in 'pandemonium'
06 march 07 www.personnel.com Doctors slam 'shambolic' new government recruitment scheme for junior medics
07 March 07 http://www.onmedica.net/ Review of new recruitment process is a whitewash, say junior doctors
12 March 07 Computerworld.com Government backs down over NHS online application system
Blogs
- http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/02/mmc-mtas-combine-harvester.html
- http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/02/mmc-and-mtas-part-2.html
- http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/02/mmc-and-mtas-part-3.html
- http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/2007/03/mmc-and-mtas-part-4.html
- 08 March 07 http://frontpointsystems.co.uk/weblog/2007/03/08/arrogance
- 09 March 07 a patients guide to modernising medical careers and mtas part1
- 11 March 07 a patients' guide to modernising medical careers and mtas part2
- The Psychiatrist Blog
- Murdering my career
- 17 March 07 Dr Grumble
- 16 March 07 Guido Fawkes white Coat Demo
- 16 July 2007 witchdoctor - MTAS cost �£1.9M
- 15 October 2007 DrRant Psychobabbling delusion
