With much regret we have to inform you that Remedy is no longer able to exist as an organisation.
After five years of campaigns, direct action, courtroom battles and the occasional march we are unable to sustain the management and leadership that an effective Remedy needs. We have therefore decided to close with immediate effect.
We are immensely proud of everything that our small committee and 12,000 supporters have managed to to achieve during this time. Remedy was about providing the legitimacy and security to passionate medics who wanted to challenge the views of the establishment.
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It is hard to find anyone who seriously believes that cancelling a few out-patient clinics and some elective operations will cause the government to change its mind over Doctor’s pensions. Losing a few operating lists might cause some inconvenience to a few Trusts, and a few patients will probably suffer unnecessarily as a consequence, but it doesn’t seem likely that this will translate into hard cash.
But going on strike will not just be ineffective, it will be positively harmful. Striking over changes to our pay would undermine everything that it means to be a professional. It would demean
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Good news for doctors who want to know where they will be working. This
week a Code of Practice has been published, which lays out the agreed set of
information that recruiting organisations and employers should provide to
doctors in training at each stage of the recruitment process.
The Code of Practice (which only applies in England and
Wales) can be downloaded from http://www.mmc.nhs.uk/pdf/Code%20of%20Practice_FINAL_webcopy3.pdf
It provides applicants with a guide to the level of information that they can
expect to receive - information at the time of advertisement, information at
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MTAS and the GMC
Remedy has been unsuccessful in its attempts to persuade the Fitness to Practice mechanisms of the GMC to investigate the Architects of MTAS.
We believe that this has created a very unwelcome precedent.
A critique of this ruling was published in the BMJ, entitled When is a Doctor not a Doctor.
The full judgement in the case is available at Bailii.
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RemedyUK was formed in November 2006. Its founders realised that rational concerns about implementation of the training reforms (MMC) were being ignored by those entrusted with implementing it.
We’re a movement of doctors which challenges implementation of training reform and in employment strategy in the NHS. We have reclaimed strength in voice and in action which has been lacking the profession in recent years. continue reading
