Twenty nine potential GP trainees in London have been told that they will not be starting their 3 year training scheme this August, as another round of cost cutting measure sweeps across the NHS as reported in The Observer. As thousands of doctors face the prospect of unemployment, Lord Warner claims 'It's rubbish to say there will be thousands of junior doctors without jobs. Some may have to be flexible about the specialities and locations they work in, but at the end of the day our changes to medical training mean that more doctors will go into specialities where there are shortages and more patients will be treated by trained doctors, meaning that patients benefit.'

It is quite amazing how the Government has managed to maintain their line of how the patients will not suffer as a result, but their services will improve. The BMA has come under heavy pressure from its members for their apparent silence on the growing medical jobs crisis from their own members. For too long, it has been claimed that the BMA has stood on the sidelines, as an ever growing number of their members face unemployment due to the Government's mismanagement of the NHS.

29 GP Trainee Places Lost In London