Government will suspend MTAS for second round of job interviews

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Government will suspend MTAS for second round of job interviews

Lynn Eaton

London

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In an 11th hour development, a day before a High Court hearingwas due to take place on Wednesday, England's health secretary,Patricia Hewitt, announced plans to scrap the flawed medicaltraining application service (MTAS).

But although this has been heralded by some observers as a decisionto abandon MTAS—the system for handling junior doctors'applications for training posts—it is clear that the firstround of interviews set up through the service and that havealready taken place or are due to take place will still be valid.

Ms Hewitt merely announced that, rather than trying to continuewith MTAS, local deaneries would notify junior doctors of theoutcome of the round one interviews and that selection for thesecond round would be done by local deaneries, not through MTAS.

"It's old news," said Matt Jameson-Evans of Remedy UK, the doctors'group that is bringing the legal action against the . . . [Full text of this article]

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