EDITOR,--Registrars in general practice neither are ill informed about nor misunderstand the proposals for summative assessment, as is suggested by T Stuart Murray and Jacky Hayden respectively.1 2 It is precisely because they perceive both the dangers to training that the plans threaten and the precipitate and unprofessional manner in which they are being implemented that so many future general practitioners are expressing so much concern.

The two authors indicate the inconsistency and lack of rigour that are reflected in the assessment as proposed. One of the principal tenets of the package is that a national standard …