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| Doctors protest over recruitment | Doctors protest over recruitment |
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| About 200 junior doctors have held a rally in Glasgow in protest at the recruitment process for specialist training posts. | About 200 junior doctors have held a rally in Glasgow in protest at the recruitment process for specialist training posts. |
| Doctors said the new UK-wide training arrangements had left some of the brightest students with no post. | Doctors said the new UK-wide training arrangements had left some of the brightest students with no post. |
| The Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) procedure is already under review. | The Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) procedure is already under review. |
| Following pressure from doctors, the MMC website announced that all eligible applicants would now be given face-to-face interviews. | Following pressure from doctors, the MMC website announced that all eligible applicants would now be given face-to-face interviews. |
| Selection process | Selection process |
| However, that means thousands of interviews must take place before the successful candidates are due to start work in August. | However, that means thousands of interviews must take place before the successful candidates are due to start work in August. |
| The problems began when the way junior doctors are selected for their first training places in a specialty changed for the first time in more than a decade this year. | The problems began when the way junior doctors are selected for their first training places in a specialty changed for the first time in more than a decade this year. |
| It was intended to introduce a fairer selection process and speed up the amount of time doctors spend in training before becoming fully qualified. | It was intended to introduce a fairer selection process and speed up the amount of time doctors spend in training before becoming fully qualified. |
| Independent MSP Dr Jean Turner spoke at the rally | |
| However, many going through the first round of interviews were unhappy. | However, many going through the first round of interviews were unhappy. |
| They said a new computerised application system did not allow candidates to show a range of experience and that some of the best candidates have therefore not been selected for interview. | They said a new computerised application system did not allow candidates to show a range of experience and that some of the best candidates have therefore not been selected for interview. |
| The junior doctors calling for reform of the system gathered in George Square in Glasgow and St Andrew's Place in London on Saturday. | The junior doctors calling for reform of the system gathered in George Square in Glasgow and St Andrew's Place in London on Saturday. |
| Dr Kevin Cormack of Remedy UK, a group representing doctors who have lost confidence in the new training system, said: "There's a computerised training system that's basically gone disastrously wronging selecting doctors for the right jobs." | Dr Kevin Cormack of Remedy UK, a group representing doctors who have lost confidence in the new training system, said: "There's a computerised training system that's basically gone disastrously wronging selecting doctors for the right jobs." |
| He said there has been about 30,000 applications for about 22,000 posts. | He said there has been about 30,000 applications for about 22,000 posts. |
| Suggestions that thousands of doctors will be left with no jobs to go to are completely false Dr Harry Burns | |
| Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Harry Burns: "It is currently planned that junior doctors who are unsuccessful at being short-listed in the first round will be offered appropriate advice and expertise (by NHS Education for Scotland) to help with future career planning for Round 2 of applications, which is due to start in April. | Scotland's chief medical officer Dr Harry Burns: "It is currently planned that junior doctors who are unsuccessful at being short-listed in the first round will be offered appropriate advice and expertise (by NHS Education for Scotland) to help with future career planning for Round 2 of applications, which is due to start in April. |
| "These plans may change in light of advice from the review group being chaired by Neil Douglas. | "These plans may change in light of advice from the review group being chaired by Neil Douglas. |
| "Suggestions that thousands of doctors will be left with no jobs to go to are completely false." | "Suggestions that thousands of doctors will be left with no jobs to go to are completely false." |
| He said Scotland would have at least the same number of training posts available under the new system as was available under the old. | He said Scotland would have at least the same number of training posts available under the new system as was available under the old. |
| "Those doctors unable to secure a training post will be eligible to apply for non-training posts and, if they choose, to compete for a training place again next year", Dr Burns added. | "Those doctors unable to secure a training post will be eligible to apply for non-training posts and, if they choose, to compete for a training place again next year", Dr Burns added. |
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| Shona Robison, the SNP's health spokeswoman, who spoke at the rally, agreed with junior doctors that the reforms were not working, telling them: "The fact that you are here is testament to that. | |
| "If we don't do something to avert this, we're very much going to have a crisis on our hands. | |
| "Your future careers and whether or not you stay in Scotland are at stake and that's what I'm worried about. | |
| "My concern is patients will be the ones to suffer because we will lose services, and I don't want that to happen." | |
| The rally also heard from independent MSP Dr Jean Turner, a former GP. | |
| She said: "The Government is doing a grand job of wanting to kill the NHS and shoot us all in the heart." |
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