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The mental health services are not meeting needs of UK people having
psychiatric problems, because psychiatric consultants posts are vacant and
moreover psychiatric patients are discriminated as regard their access to
psychiatric services and financial funding.
About one year before, I applied for a suitable post in NHS and till
now there is no proper response but round about ways to deal with
prospective doctors. Administrative mechanisms for recruting psychiatrists
from around the world are very tardy and slow. I meet the educational
criteria of NHS ( I have MD in psychiatry from India and now have PhD from
Erasmus University, Rotterdam )and yet to get any positive response.
I would like to inform the good office of the auditor general for
Wales, Jeremy Colman, to rectify those tardy mechanisms and fast recruit
compatible doctors from within and outside the UK to serve the people of
Wales with mental health problems.
Reference
Roger Dobson. Quarter of consultant psychiatric posts in Wales are
vacant BMJ 2005; 331: 866-c
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests:
No competing interests
19 October 2005
Dr. Naseem A. Qureshi
Specialist Senior Registrar
POBox.4545, Department of Psychiatry, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Wales and Mental Health?
Sir,
The mental health services are not meeting needs of UK people having
psychiatric problems, because psychiatric consultants posts are vacant and
moreover psychiatric patients are discriminated as regard their access to
psychiatric services and financial funding.
About one year before, I applied for a suitable post in NHS and till
now there is no proper response but round about ways to deal with
prospective doctors. Administrative mechanisms for recruting psychiatrists
from around the world are very tardy and slow. I meet the educational
criteria of NHS ( I have MD in psychiatry from India and now have PhD from
Erasmus University, Rotterdam )and yet to get any positive response.
I would like to inform the good office of the auditor general for
Wales, Jeremy Colman, to rectify those tardy mechanisms and fast recruit
compatible doctors from within and outside the UK to serve the people of
Wales with mental health problems.
Reference
Roger Dobson. Quarter of consultant psychiatric posts in Wales are
vacant BMJ 2005; 331: 866-c
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests