Idea

You may have heard on the news that there's been another mess-up regarding MTAS. The highly-secure application system had a slight flaw, in that anyone could easily access anyone else's application online simply by changing one of the numbers in a page's URL.
So theoretically I might not get a job because someone's fiddled with my application form... (rather than on my own merits)

And because two-thirds of doctors have not been selected for any interviews, MTAS created "Round 1.b" which allows all of us to have one interview, presumably to stop us complaining (rather than, say, admit that they'd got it wrong and re-organise the whole process in a more fair way).

But now, after the online security breach, the website's been taken down.

So when & where are all our interviews going to be then?
They start on Monday and we were supposed to log on this week to get the details.

But this is currently what the entire site looks like:


No, seriously. Compare. (edit: Since I posted this, they've changed it slightly and now admit there was a problem - power to the people!)

What now MTAS?
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The Junior Doctor's Committee has made a suggestion regarding Patricia Hewitt, the Health Secretary.

Make her resign
- and then reapply for her job using the MTAS process.

"That means that her job would be scrapped and she'd have to re-apply without any of her experience counting, which is basically what the government has asked junior doctors to do."


Sounds fair to me...