"A Dreadful Mess" - BMA Responds To High Court Judgment On MTAS, UK
The BMA attended Court as an interested party* and at the hearing last week, it attacked the government's handling of MTAS as a "disaster". Responding to the judgment today, Dr Jo Hilborne, chairman of the BMA Junior Doctors Committee, says:
"We hope the Department of Health will not claim this as a victory when the careers of thousands of doctors remain in doubt because of government failures. The High Court is absolutely right to criticise their handling of this mess, and to point out that our concerns about it were ignored.
"The harsh fact facing us now is that there are not enough jobs. There are 12,000 doctors who will not get training posts through this system, and they must be our priority. We have demanded that the government guarantee that no doctor will be unemployed as a result of this process and called for funding for extra training posts.
"We now hope that doctors will unite to fight for these aims. The past week has been incredibly painful for the medical profession. It's time for us to start healing the wounds and move on."
Dr Jonathan Fielden, chairman of the BMA Consultants Committee, says:
"Junior doctors' careers are in turmoil because of the MTAS debacle. The BMA has made it absolutely clear to the Government where the training application process went wrong and how it should put it right. We will continue to do all we can to get the best possible solution for doctors and restore medical training to the gold standard our patients expect and can be proud of. We must now unite and lead the urgent redesign of training to achieve the premier status we used to hold in world medicine."
The BMA has requested an urgent meeting with the Health Secretary to demand further action.
The BMA attended the Court hearing because it was named as an interested party by the claimant, Remedy UK. Their case was based on the argument that the review group set up to investigate the failings of the MTAS system had acted illegally. As the BMA was represented on the review group, it could not support the challenge. It also opposed Remedy UK's proposal that doctors were appointed to temporary, rather than long-term, training posts.
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