Unite to stop divide and rule

doi:10.1136/bmj.39156.709039.FA

BMJ 2007;334:601 (24 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39156.709039.FA

Letters

MTAS

Unite to stop divide and rule

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The government's promise to deliver a consultant led NHS hasbeen replaced by an MMC ladder with the original consultantpost at the pinnacle being mysteriously replaced with the uninterpretablesenior medical appointment. A disingenuous MMC plan coupledwith the policy of expanding medical school intake to providemore trained doctors has been exposed as a calculated methodto manufacture unemployment, thus giving the government politicalcontrol over clinicians, at the same time providing the toolto drive down wages while creating service-providing clinicianswith minimal potential for career development.

At long last we as a profession are beginning to realise thatwe must come together to prevent the attempts by the governmentand its political pawns to divide and conquer.¹

Andrew Clegg, specialist registrar, geriatrics

Yorkshire Deanery, Leeds LS2 9JT

andrewpaulclegg@yahoo.co.uk

Competing interests: None declared.