Thursday, March 01, 2007
Doctors' training system alleged 'a shambles'
Thousands of young doctors have been left without jobs because a new NHS training system has gone "disastrously wrong", it was stated yesterday in the Right-Wing UK Telegraph. As much as £2 billion has allegedly been spent on the training of up to 8,000 doctors who find themselves without a new job under a Government initiative.
The Daily Telegraph has been inundated with letters and emails from despairing doctors and their parents who "feel like crying". Many of the doctors who have written to The Daily Telegraph complained of a "Kafkaesque" application procedure which asks them "vague and waffling" questions about their personal experience but take insufficient account of their qualifications, references and independent appraisals.
As a result, some highly qualified junior doctors have not been offered a single interview. And, because of technical problems, others have been offered interviews for which they did not apply.
However, a spokesman for the Department of Health said "Allegations of plagiarism will be investigated and if applicants are found to have plagiarised or deliberately falsified their application in any way, they may be referred to the GMC".
IMO: It sounds a bit as if Doctors are trying to spin their problem with the fact that they are not being offered even more money. However one should also bear in mind, without malice, the recent comments in Private Eye (2 March , No 1179). There is a long centre spread from p17 onwards which suggests that the Govt has already recently wasted over £12 billion on the NHS due to their lack of computer knowledge and they do not want to waste even more, so they have to trim somewhere. Also the srticle on p12 suggests that their healthcare strategy, particularly involving the US firm Kaiiser, has yet again used the B.Liar plan of "corruption, corruption and corruption" and that there has been a bit much of that - so on top of that they won't overpay a lot more greedy doctors. These guys often take up medicine just for the money and whilst greedy blue collar unionists at least have historical excuses, these lower-middle class fellows are 'beyond a joke'.
The Daily Telegraph has been inundated with letters and emails from despairing doctors and their parents who "feel like crying". Many of the doctors who have written to The Daily Telegraph complained of a "Kafkaesque" application procedure which asks them "vague and waffling" questions about their personal experience but take insufficient account of their qualifications, references and independent appraisals.
As a result, some highly qualified junior doctors have not been offered a single interview. And, because of technical problems, others have been offered interviews for which they did not apply.
However, a spokesman for the Department of Health said "Allegations of plagiarism will be investigated and if applicants are found to have plagiarised or deliberately falsified their application in any way, they may be referred to the GMC".
IMO: It sounds a bit as if Doctors are trying to spin their problem with the fact that they are not being offered even more money. However one should also bear in mind, without malice, the recent comments in Private Eye (2 March , No 1179). There is a long centre spread from p17 onwards which suggests that the Govt has already recently wasted over £12 billion on the NHS due to their lack of computer knowledge and they do not want to waste even more, so they have to trim somewhere. Also the srticle on p12 suggests that their healthcare strategy, particularly involving the US firm Kaiiser, has yet again used the B.Liar plan of "corruption, corruption and corruption" and that there has been a bit much of that - so on top of that they won't overpay a lot more greedy doctors. These guys often take up medicine just for the money and whilst greedy blue collar unionists at least have historical excuses, these lower-middle class fellows are 'beyond a joke'.
# posted by uv : 9:01 PM
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