Junior doctors to raise concerns

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Ministers should also call a halt to NHS reform "for its own sake", which has so far been "driven by political expediency", the chairman of the British Medical Association's junior doctors committee will say.

In a speech to the BMA's annual conference of junior doctors, Ram Moorthy will highlight growing concern over the number of doctors due to be affected by high competition for training posts next month.

Latest figures for England suggest 18,000 doctors have applied for 8,800 posts with competition ratios as high as 25 to one in some specialties, according to the BMA.

Mr Moorthy will warn that problems may lie ahead with this year's recruitment process following the "disastrous" Modernising Medical Careers reforms last year. The anger felt by doctors is "simmering under the surface", he will tell the conference in central London.

He will add: "We are vital providers of care and need training throughout our careers. Reform for reform's sake must stop or the casualties of short term thinking will continue to be those that the NHS depends on.

"Junior doctors feel that they are not viewed as dedicated professionals who embrace a difficult role, and make decisions of fundamental importance. They keep the service running, working anti-social hours, covering gaps in the rota, whilst always ensuring that patients receive the high quality care they deserve and expect.

"Instead, junior doctors are made to feel like a nuisance, a problem to be "got round" by employers and Government. We need not only unity in the profession, but respect from the civil servants and the managers - an acknowledgement that we are all on the same side, striving for an excellent service for patients.

"My call to those who run the NHS and its organisations is: 'We are professionals, respect us as such.

"Show us trust and we will show you trust back. Allow us to treat patients as they should be treated and we will respect you for it.'"