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Protestors from around the country went on a march last month in opposition to changes that have been announced by the government regarding medical training. The demonstration took place between The Royal College of Physicians and The Royal College of Surgeons, both in London, and was attended by around 13,000 people. The main purpose of the march was to protest against the new changes known as MMC, Modernising Medical Careers. The changes are likely to see junior doctors given fast track training to specialist level, such as GP or surgeon , which will involve significantly less time or experience. For example, surgeons operating time will decrease from 30,000 hours to just 8,000 when they become consultants. The application system is likely to be made entirely anonymous and on-line, therefore leaving short listing of candidates mainly to a computer, which will see many of the best candidates without even a single interview. What will alarm people also, is the possible decrease in the number of training posts. There are thousands of exceptional young doctors who may never get the chance to progress in their career and may possibly have to leave medicine entirely, with an estimated 8,000 likely to be culled. What will make people angry however is the fact that tax payers are likely to lose out. It is they who contribute to the huge bill to send medical students through university, in the hope that they will work for the NHS some day. Many young doctors are now having to leave their family and seek work abroad because of the new changes, meaning other countries such as Australia are gaining from tax payers money. Dr Anthony Barron and his Fiancé Kim Johnson, of Broomfield Rise, were just two of those in the medical profession who attended the march. Anthony currently works around 80 hours a week training at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. His education and hard work includes a bachelor of honours in medicine, surgery and pharmacology and an additional degree in cardiology. He spends his spare time attending expensive courses and sitting three postgraduate exams, but now faces having to leave medicine or emigrate. A disgruntled Anthony told My Abbots: “All doctors off duty should have been at the march. The new rules will see training get worse and less hours committed, which will create second class consultants. Our salary will go down and there is a chance I may have to drop back a year because of the competition from more experienced doctors than myself.”

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