Patricia 'Dalek' Hewitt and MMC

If Patricia has anything to say to the medical profession, it would seem to be EXTERMINATE.....EXTERMINATE.....EXTERMINATE.....

Determined at all costs to dumb down British medicine and castrate any political power that the medical profession may have, Patzy Howitzer continues to drive the 6th Panzer Division right through the heart of medical education.

MMC (Modernising Medical Careers - ho, ho) basically involves taking a system of training which used to produce some of the best senior hospital doctors in the world (the Consultant grade in the NHS) and turning it into a kind of cheap conveyor belt for badly trained, cheap hospital doctors.

Not a problem for Patty Howler, because she seems determined to do away with doctors in the NHS anyway, what with non-doctor 'practitioners' such as Health Care Practitioners (doctor's assistants with a fancy name), Nurse Practitioners (mini doctors who can prescribe anything after 38 days training, shame they can't actually make a diagnosis), Latvian Lap Dancer Practitioners (cheaper than traditional clap clinic doctors, but cheap as chips and popular with the male patients) . Ok, I made that last one up, but really it is quite difficult to top Nutty Pat even in jest.

Ok, so the best-of-the-best-of-the-best doctors with 45 A grade A levels each will suddenly become largely unemployed because there will only be training posts for a proportion of them. So, they will have to simply take 'Staff Grade' posts (cannon fodder for the day to day work) and will never reach their full potential.

So the patients lose out, the doctors certainly lose out, but Splatsy Spewitt is quids in. Cheap healthcare. Never mind the quality, feel the width, 40 squillion more doctors and nurses than when the original Thatcherites were in power, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Advice from the wise on doctors.net.uk: take the US exams and emigrate while you still can.