Response to the Health Select Committee Inquiry
Published 7 July 2008
The Health Select Committee published their report into
Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) on 8 May. Today, the Government
has set out its response to the conclusions and recommendations of
that report. To see the response, please click the link below.
Response to Health Select Committee Inquiry
At the end of July 2007, the Health Select Committee (HSC)
agreed to hold an inquiry to examine MMC and to consider the
findings of the independent Tooke Inquiry.
The HSC terms of reference were:
- what are the principles underlying MMC and
are they sound;
- to what extent the practical implementation
of MMC has been consistent with the programme's underlying
principles;
- the strengths and weaknesses of the MTAS
process;
- what lessons about project management should
the Department of Health learn from the failings in the
implementation of MMC;
- the extent to which MMC has taken account of
the supply and demand of junior doctors and the number of
international medical graduates eligible for training in the
UK;
- the degree to which current plans for MMC
will help to increase the flexibility of the medical workforce;
and
- the roles of the Department of Health,
Strategic Health Authorities, the Deaneries, the Royal Colleges and
the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board in designing
and implementing MMC.