Chairperson:
Miss Shehnaz Somjee,
an ENT Surgeon and Lawyer

Honorary Secretary:
Mr Girijanand Pandey,
a Urologist

Deputy Secretary:
Dr Saghir Qureshi,
an Anaesthetist and Ophthalmologist

Honorary Treasurer:
Dr Abdul Rashid Kazi,
a Genitourinary Physician

Public Relations Secretary:
Dr Neeelam Prasas:
a Psychiatrist

LDA rep to the Locum and NCCG group of RCSEd
Dr Dilip Ray, a Urologist:

Are CCST-holders really well trained competent doctors??

Statistics show the reverse. More and more newly appointed consultants are being suspended in their first year. Interestingly some get their CCST’s without spending much of their time on training. One famous example is that of the A&E consultant in London who spent his SpR years as a JDC chairman/deputy chairman; onerous posts requiring at least half or three quarters of the working week on BMA activities. His ‘JDC training’ seems to have counted for his CCST since he achieved the latter in normal time. Sadly little Najiyah Hussain, a child of three years, had to die because of his mistake. In fairness the STA should be paying for such funerals.

Dr James Elwood and the Bristol surgeons all had their CCSTs.

Are non-CCST-holders incompetent doctors??

Their hard work in substantive and locum posts is in hospitals not the houses of the trade union and college advisers, so it does not count.

NEW BARRIERS

Those completing up to one year’s retraining are being told they are not good enough in general i.e. the STA wrongly over-graded them! These are new generalised unsubstantiated ‘assessments’.

The exit examination is the new PLAB of the Royal Colleges.

Being on the SR is conditional to being on the GMC’s Principal Register. The GMC’s Fitness to Practise procedures can ensure a short life span for some careers.

The BMA and the colleges share the same members on their councils and committees. Visit them! You will see many faces sit in both houses!!

The Joint Committees for Higher Training (JCHST, JCHMT) have representatives from the BMA’s Craft Committees. BMA and its CCSC and JDC reps also sit on other college committees.

Colleges sent reps to BMA’s various committees.

JCC is a BMA/College/STA Committee.

Many non-cross-representatives sit in both places in their own right.

Find a proverb befitting this and win a prize!!!