Multi-specialty trainee group meeting with the BMA JDC about MTAS


30 March 2007

At a multi-specialty trainee group meeting together with the BMA JDC at BMA House 23 March 2007, we have released the following statement with regards to MTAS:
  • Current and future patient care is being undermined by this Government’s insistence on continuing with the MTAS process. We have grave concerns that this will potentially destabilise the future of UK healthcare and as such this poses a direct risk to the health and well-being of our patients.
  • We believe that the MTAS system is unfair, inequitable and not fit for purpose.
  • The current offer from the MMC review group (announced on 22nd March 2007) is not acceptable.
  • MTAS is having a devastating, detrimental effect on the morale of the UK’s medical profession, which seems likely to have long-term adverse effects on recruitment and retention for medical training.
  • We call for a truly independent review of the MTAS and MMC process to ensure that it is fit for purpose, fair and equitable.
  • The medical profession is keen to continue to work towards finding a solution that protects our patients, upholds high quality medical training and safeguards the future of healthcare in the UK.

Signed by:

Acute Medicine Trainees
Dr Yvonne Barlow

Association of British Neurologists Trainees
Dr Andrew Kelso

Association of Otolaryngologists in Training
Mr Ram Moorthy

Association of Surgeons in Training
Mr Conor Marron

Trainee representative of the British Association of Dermatologists
Dr Paul Farrant

British Geriatrics Society Trainees Group
Dr Phyo Myint

British Infection Society
Dr Lionel Tan

British Medical Association GP Registrar Subcommittee
Dr Andrew Thomson

British Medical Association Junior Doctors Committee:
Dr Tom Dolphin, Deputy Chairman of the JDC and Chair of the Education and Training Subcommittee
Dr Johan Malawana
Deputy Chair, Education and Training Subcommittee
Dr Daniel Frith
Mr Paul Malone

British Medical Association Scottish Juniors Doctors Committee
Graeme Eunson

British Orthopaedic Trainees Association
Mr Craig White

British Thoracic Society SpR Advisory Group
Dr Joanna Szram

Doyle Club of the Association for Palliative Medicine
Dr Iain Lawrie

Plastic Surgery Trainees Association
Mr Vivek Sivarajan

Trainees in Gastroenterology
Dr Sheldon Cooper

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