Angry GPs join junior doctors in DoH rows

29 Mar 07
Doctors continued to vent their anger at the government this week as relations between ministers and the British Medical Association deteriorated further.

30 March 2007

Doctors continued to vent their anger at the government this week as relations between ministers and the British Medical Association deteriorated further.

On March 23, junior doctors' negotiators pulled out of talks with the Department of Health over the failure of a new job applications system.

Three days later GPs announced they would hold a special meeting in April to hear how frontline family doctors wish to respond to their 0% pay award.

BMA GPs' leader Hamish Meldrum warned: 'We have already announced that we are preparing a guidance paper on actions practices might consider taking.'

Junior doctors withdrew from the review group trying to resolve failures in the Medical Training Application Service because the latest solution — restricting doctors to one interview — was 'unacceptable'. The BMA said this could disadvantage more than 11,000 doctors who had been offered more than one interview.

Junior doctors' leader Jo Hilborne said interviewing all applicants or scrapping the system were the only acceptable solutions.

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