MTAS and other NHS websites

[Roger Hayter]

In message <62034.172.16.1.150.1179211235.squirrel@www.ftel.co.uk>, Ian 
G Batten <ian.batten@uk.fujitsu.com> writes

>
>Well, it had the approval of all the Royal Colleges and the BMA.  It
>sounds like the profession needs to consider how well its representatives
>represent  it.  [[ I have a friend who's had a 15 year sabbatical, in IT,
>between his house jobs in the late eighties and his MRCP last month, who
>is able to bring both barrels to bear on the MTAS debacle and can relate
>it to the overall MMC issues.  So I've been following it both with extra
>interest and extra insights! ]]
>
>ian

You will know then that medicine has a frankly immoral (for a state 
organisation) pay system, called, bizarrely, "Clinical Excellence" 
whereby consultant pay can be doubled (accounting for the high average 
pay publicised) by making the right friends, joining the right 
committees, including BMA, and generally keeping one's head down 
politically.  There is also the Honours system proper, but this is just 
icing for successful BMA leaders (success in this context being measured 
by, and for, the Government).  Hope that helps explain the College and 
BMA co-operation with a national competitive employment scheme based on 
psycho-educational theory rather than academic ability or competence.

-- 
Roger Hayter