MTAS update
The Telegraph covers Professor Crockard’s resignation as does the Times
Professor Allan Crockard was one cog in the wheel. The number of people who had their hands in the MMC / MTAS pie is much larger. The Post-Graduate Deans, members of PMETB, the various Royal Colleges, even some leading lights of the BMA have all at various times not done the right thing. Some persist in that attitude. See the letters from Allan Templeton & Steven Field that have been covered here.
As for non-medics, Prof Crockard’s letter names Debbie Mellor. Keith Chapman was part of MMC & is now also part of the review group. There are a lot more besides.
This is one such list I found:
Professor Martin Marshall - Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health
Professor Peter Rubin - Chairman, PMETB .
Paul Streets OBE - Chief Executive, PMETB
Professor Shelley Heard - National Clinical Adviser, MMC
Dr Sarah E Thomas - Lead Dean and Chair of the COPMeD Steering Group for Recruitment and
Selection into Specialty Training
Dr John Coakley - Medical Director and Deputy Chief Executive, Homerton University Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust
Professor Alan Crockard - National Director, MMC
Professor Justin Allen - Primary Care Adviser, MMC
Dr R Ashley Fraser - Medical Director, NHS Employers
Jenny Firth - Programme Manager for Medical Recruitment, Department of Health
Dr Moira Livingston - Non Consultant Career Grade Advisor, MMC
Debbie Mellor OBE - Director of Workforce Capacity, Department of Health
Dr Simon Plint - GP Director, Oxford Deanery
Dr Mike Watson - Director of Medicine, NHS Education for Scotland
Professor Howard Young - Vice Dean, Wales College of Medicine and MMC Lead, Welsh Assembly
And as for the politicians, acceptance of responsibility is a concept that does not exist in the rarefied reaches they inhabit.
And RemedyUK appear to have started the legal clock ticking. Their “letter before action” is on its way.