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Unified training grade
EDITOR,--Trevor J Bayley states that the key to the success of the unified training grade and the Calman report is a far greater increase in the number of consultants than is presently planned.1 The Calman recommendations are to be implemented by the end of this year, clearly with no concomitant expansion in the number of consultants. This means that fewer training grades will be available. On transition, incumbent senior registrars will automatically fill such posts, followed by career registrars, who have two years to gain a training number. What then of present career senior house officers? Presumably a minimum wait of two years for promotion will ensue in most specialties--a horrific prospect for senior house officers who have obtained their fellowship and membership and are eager to start higher specialist training.
A better way of implementing the Calman reforms would be to set in motion a plan to expand the
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