Hospital Doctor articles from June 2007

Hospital Doctor archives from June 2007

Seniors call for MMC review.
June 7, 2007... Training Helen.Gilbert@rbi.co.uk Hospital consultants were due to call for a major review of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) at the annual conference of the BMA's Central Consultants and Specialists Committee (CCSC) yesterday. ...

ST3 competition plan by colleges.
June 7, 2007... training Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk The future of run-through training is in serious doubt as three of the largest medical royal colleges push for the introduction of competitive entry at ST3 level. Leading the call is Prof Ian...

Colleges finally show gumption.
June 7, 2007... Hospital Doctor comment The dramatic salvo fired by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges on the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) is shocking in both its suddenness and its intensity. Although some of the...

Letters to the Editor.
June 7, 2007... Homoeopathy can make a difference Dear Editor Should a homoeopathy hospital survive? (22/24 May, page 30.) I have had many patients who have benefited, having failed to be helped by conventional treatments. There are many evidence gaps...

pathology.
June 7, 2007... Pathology services are turning around results faster in the face of rising demand, but the costs are highly variable, and often unknown, as Jennifer Veitch reports If one diagnostic service could be singled out as being indispensable to...

WAR.
June 7, 2007... Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk THE ACADEMY of Medical Royal Colleges has launched a furious assault on the Postgraduate Medical Educa-tion Training Board (PMETB) in a damning report leaked to Hospital Doctor. The academy accuses PMETB of a...

A profession divided.
June 14, 2007... exclusive SURVEY Anita Wilkinson The Government is driving a wedge between consultants and GPs, a landmark Hospital Doctor survey has revealed. Almost half of doctors think working relationships have deteriorated over the past five years...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
June 14, 2007... It's manipulation of the available facts Dear Editor I see that Dr Kendrick 'exposes sloppy science, medical myths and unhealthy assumptions of healthcare' ('Chiropractic is no magic cure', 22/24 May, page 18). This is an...

Vote call on SAS contract.(staff and associate specialist)(Survey)
June 14, 2007... survey Helen.Gilbert@rbi.co.uk Staff and Associate Speci-alist (SAS) doctors are set to reject current contract proposals, a Hospital Doctor survey has found. The survey of 240 respondents - 122 of whom were SAS grade - revealed...

Radical overhaul of ST application form.(specialty training)(Brief article)
June 14, 2007... obstetrics & Gynaecology Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk Juniors APPLYING for posts in O&G in the second round of specialty training will be recruited using new forms designed by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)....

Time to build on new-found unity.
June 14, 2007... Hospital Doctor comment Failure. That was the traditional hospital view of GPs. The doctors who couldn't cut it in 'real' medicine get farmed out to the cosy cottages of general practice. But Hospital Doctor's survey of around 2,000...

BMA blasts 'cynical' recruitment tactics.
June 21, 2007... Training The BMA has slammed NHS trusts which are hoping to recruit fully trained doctors to clinical fellowship posts and has urged the doctors involved to boycott the recruitment process. Earlier this month, Guys and St Thomas' NHS...

'45% of juniors to be jobless'.(Survey)
June 21, 2007... workforce planning Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk Around 45% of junior doctors will not have specialty training posts when the first round of applications closes on Friday, a snapshot survey by new doctors' pressure group Fidelio suggests. The...

How could they get it so wrong?(Brief article)
June 21, 2007... Hospital Doctor comment Cock-up or conspiracy? Were the failures of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the Medical Training Application Service the malign results of a well-intended plan or the product of Machiavellian schemes to divide...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
June 21, 2007... Med 3: is there any desire for change? Dear Editor Dr Rob Hampton's assessment of the Med 3 is interesting (12 June, page 33). It does, however, suffer from a major misconception - that of the assumption of a desire for change. ...

Consultancy bill is 'exorbitant'.(management consultants and hospital consultants)
June 21, 2007... finance Nina Jacobs THE government is spending almost as much on management consultants who deliver 'poor value for money' as it does on hospital consultants wages, doctors' leaders have said. The stark warning follows the...

Medicine's new.
June 21, 2007... Predictive autoantibodies appear sometimes years before symptoms in some disorders. Pial Ganguli examines emerging tests to detect them and their potential for predicting disease Doctors around the world are taking to fortune-telling - not...

NHS 'clueless' on numbers to be forced into SAS positions.
June 21, 2007... Recruitment Rob.Finch@rbi.co.uk The Government and the NHS have no idea how many junior doctors will be pushed into staff and associate specialist grade (SAS) posts as a result of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC). The revelation,...

Accidental heroes.(medical researchers)
June 28, 2007... It is not all laborious research that yields new treatments - sometimes it is just a question of pure luck. Jo Carlowe looks at the role of serendipity in medicine 'Chance favours only the prepared mind,' said eminent biologist Louis...

Are computerised notes secure.(National Health Services Information Technology)
June 28, 2007... The plans for NHS IT, and sharing patient records in particular, have raised fears about confidentiality. Adam Legge looks at whether the NHS IT programme can ever be workably secure A project as huge as the NHS national IT programme was...

Doctors blast C&B referrals.(Choose and Book)(British Medical Association meetings)
June 28, 2007... bma annual representative meeting Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk Hospital doctors have expressed grave concerns over Choose and Book (C&B), and have called on the BMA to assess the scheme's effects on GP-to-consultant referral patterns. ...

Crisis looms as ST posts go unfilled.(speciality training)
June 28, 2007... training Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk Up to 70% of run-through specialty training posts remain unfilled in some regions after the end of the first recruitment round, a leaked Government document reveals. The report, dated 18 June,...

Oral insulin capsule proves 'promising'.
June 28, 2007... diabetes Adam.Legge@rbi.co.uk researchers have come a step closer to the 'Holy Grail' of oral insulin after the release of promising efficacy data on a novel formulation. The data, presented at the American Diabetes Associ-ation...

IMGs set to bring more legal action.
June 28, 2007... overseas doctors Elizabeth.Fox@rbi.co.uk TWENTY OVERSEAS doctors are poised to launch a legal challenge against the DoH for imposing rules that make them ineligible to take up specialty training posts. Following the abolition of...

Recruitment round two 'meaningless'.
June 28, 2007... The BMA has branded the second round of specialty training recruitment as 'meaningless', because it is still reliant on the discredited Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) forms. Former health secretary Patricia Hewitt had promised...

It's all change at the top this week.(Editorial)
June 28, 2007... Hospital Doctor comment As Gordon Brown took over the reins of power this week, he pledged his commitment to the NHS. And in his speech accepting command of the Labour Party on Sunday, he pledged that his party must have not just policies,...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the editor)
June 28, 2007... NHS board might be a good idea Dear Editor So Andy Burnham is a likely candidate for health secretary. So far he seems to be slightly more sensible than Patricia Hewitt. I like his idea of telling patients the cost of treatment....

QC casts doubt on claims.
June 28, 2007... juniors Serious doubts have been cast on whether junior doctors can bring claims against their employers for unfair treatment during the roll-out of specialty training. In May, following the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS)...