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MMC
TIME-LINE TO MMC AND MORE
As mentioned at the beginning, The Witch Doctor will make this blog look like a dog’s breakfast. This is because I can’t help it because I am incompetent. Witches don’t do competencies much.
This Time-Line is particularly dog’s breakfast-like. It is continually being edited as I find out more. Bits and pieces will be here today and gone tomorrow!
I need to do it, because, since protocols are forbidden, we witches need to create our own bespoke Aide Memoires.
For ourselves.
This is an aide memoire, not a competency nor a protocol.
1993
Hospital Doctors: Trainingfor the future
1988
Achieving a Balance
March 1999
Future NHS Staffing Requirements LINK
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BOOM - LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY INVESTED FOR STAFFING, EDUCATION AND TARGETS
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April 2000
A Health Service of all the talents LINK
July 2000
Improving Working Lives – scheme commenced
April 2001
Shifting the Balance of Power in the NHS (2001) LINK
Creation of Workforce Development Confederations (WDCs)
Creation of NHS Modernisation Agency (MA) LINK
Creation of National Practitioner Programme LINK
August 2002
Unfinished Business
2002 -2006
BMA junior doctors and medical students commitees repeatedly urge caution in implementation of government vision for junior’s training while acknowledging need for reform of SpR and SHO grades.
October 2002
Creation of Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs)
April 2003
New consultant contract begins
April 2004
New GP contract begins
WDCs merged with SHAs
November 2004
Creation of NHS Employers LINK
August 2004
European Working Time Directive extended to trainee doctors
December 2004
Agenda for Change agreement finalized
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BOOM TURNS TO BUST!!!
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April 2005
New pharmacy services contract begins
Net NHS deficit of £251 million
July 2005
MA replaced by NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement LINK
August 2005
Start of introduction of Modernising Medical Careers LINK LINK
November 2005
Secretary of State commits to achieving net NHS financial balance by end of 2006–7
November 2006
Our Health, Our Care, Our Say LINK
March 2006
Permit-free training for overseas doctors ended
April 2006
New dentistry contract begins
Net NHS deficits reach £547 million
June 2006
British Medical Association says that thousands of young doctors face unemployment as a result of the programme, announced that month by the Government.
BMA backs JHD in calling for a years delay in implementing run-through grade due to growing concerns thatkey elements of the framework and infrastructure are unlikely to be completed in time.
July 2006
JDC continues to call for delay since MTAS system had not yet been built, nor are there plans for large scale pilot before introduction.
September 2006
The Department of Health rejects calls to delay the implementation of the system, claiming that it would result in confusion
October 25 2006
MTAS goes live with foundation programme allocaion applications.
December 13 2006
DOH announces there will be at least 18,000 places for specialty training in england.
BMA still concerned about junior unemployment.
January 22 2007
MTAS goes live with round 1 of specialty training recruitment. Reports of technical problems flood in. Deadlines extended as site crashes and technical problems have to be addressed.
March 6 2007
Birmingham surgeons refuse to conduct job interviews on the ground that they were unfair LINK
March 7 2007
The Government announces a review of the system
Fidelio BMJ letter: “Raging against MTAS” LINK
March 8 2007
BMA sitting on MTAS review group.
March 10 2007
JDC of BMA votes to scrap MTAS and return to old system.
March 17 2007
12,000 plus junior doctors march through the streets of London and Glasgow in protest
Fidelio - Letter to “The Independent” - Medical training : self promotion trumps hard work amid medical training chaos LINK
March 31 2007
Professor Alan Crockard resigns as national director of Modernising Medical Careers because of the system’s failures LINK
April 4 2007
Professor Shelley Heard, MMC National Clinical Advisor resigns. LINK
April 21 2007
The NHS approaches Voluntary Service Overseas in the hope of finding temporary work for unemployed doctors
MAY 1 2007
Patricia Hewitt, secretary of State for Health apologises for the second time for MTAS failures.
MAY 8 2007
Wessex Deanery makes error in 31 job offers and retracts them.
South Yorkshire and South Humberside Deanery and Northern Deanery make similar errors.
May 15 2007
MTAS abondoned after security breaches.
Police asked to investigate security breaches.
May 20 2007
James Johnson, BMA council chairman resigns over open letter in “The Time” newspaper supporting the CMO, Sir Liam Donaldson’s role in MMC.
May 22 2007
Senior doctors write to Patricia Hewitt with several demands including that no doctor should be left unemployed as a consequence of the MTAS crisis.
May 23 2007
Remedy UK loses high court battle, but judge states their sense of grievance is justified.
May 25 2007
Bernard Ribeiro, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, resigns from the review group.
June 4 2007
Open letter to medical profession from Parveen Kumar published in “The Times” LINK
June 6 2007
BMA council conference demands replacement for MTAS led by medical profession.
June 28 2007
Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Health resigns and is replaced by Alan Johnson in Brown’s new government.
July 18 2007
Fidelio, Letter to “The Times” - Junior doctor shambles threatens the NHS LINK
September 7 2007
Published in The Financial Times “MMC again. A terrible way to treat our doctors” by Martin Wolf. LINK
8 October 2007
Tooke Report - Draft
The Witch Doctor - Link to a random page
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LINK TO MISSING PERSONS WEBSITE
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