The health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, faced fresh calls to resign over MTAS.

Hewitt branded 'incompetent' in junior doctors row - Guardian

The Government is to abandon its online application system for junior doctors.

Online doctor application system abandoned - Independent

Extract:

"The Government is abandoning its online application system for junior doctors, it was announced today.

The highly controversial Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) has been beset by problems.

Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said all initial offers under round one of the system will be made to doctors in the next few weeks.

But MTAS will no longer be used for round two of the recruitment process.

Only doctors who have been unsuccessful in round one will go on to round two of the process.

Round two will now be CV-based, with junior doctors applying to individual deaneries who oversee training at a local level. "

Junior doctors seek judicial review on job selection process.

Doctors seek judicial review on job selection - Guardian

Extract:

"Junior doctors will this week take the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, to court in a final attempt to stop a job selection process she admits "has simply not worked". Remedy UK, an organisation representing 10,000 young doctors, is seeking a judicial review that would mean all training posts granted under the discredited system would only last for a year, allowing for a fairer system to be introduced in six months.

The action comes as the MTAS (Medical Training Application Service) website - through which doctors were meant to book interviews - remains unavailable following a security lapse which enabled confidential information on all applicants to be accessed by the public.

Up to 24,000 junior doctors having extra interviews this month are being contacted by phone since the online process that was supposed to streamline appointments is out of action."


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