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The Consultant Contract

Kevin P Gibbin   (24 January 2003)

The Consultant Contract 24 January 2003
Kevin P Gibbin, Consultant Otolaryngologist Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham Send response to journal: Re: The Consultant Contract	The result of the ballot on the Consultant Contract is now history. During the course of discussion for the Consultant Contract the Medical Staff Committee at the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham invited the BMA to send a member of the CCSC to present the Contract proposals and Dr Michael Goodman attended and presented the CCSC view on this. At the end of the discussion we held a ballot by show of hands amongst the attending members including Specialist Registrar members of the Junior Mess. There was an overwhelming vote against the contract. Subsequent to this I wrote to Dr Goodman and received a curt acknowledgment from an aide. I then wrote to Sir Anthony Grabham raising the concerns of the Queens Medical Centre, Medical Staff Committee and received a response but again from a deputed aide. My concern is that the Officers of the British Medical Associations do not respond properly and correctly to correspondence. I am concerned that as representative of my Colleagues within the Queens Medical Centre I did not receive the courtesy of a reply from the person to whom I had addressed my correspondence on either occasion and wonder if it is the policy of the British Medical Association for it's Officers not to respond to such correspondence. I would be interested in the views of your readers. Competing interests:   None declared