Check here for Registered UK doctors

My class mates, whenever we met on g-talk or Yahoo messenger, living across the world frequently asked me about our friends residing in the UK . I have lost contact with them after living in a busy life style. But we can at least check on GMC (General Medical Council) if they are still registered with it. Generally that means they are still working here. If you want to check,click here and enter surname or forename whatever. You can see a list of our people.

Today’s NHS and Britain’s neo export

You may be aware that British manufacturing industry has been going down in this decade while it has to sit on the service industry. With a rapid growth of the latter, too many oversea doctors have flocked together in the UK. As a consequence UK graduates find it difficult to get their jobs. Many have moved to Australia and New Zealand. A friend of mine got married happily a few years previously. Now she has to move to NZ along with her psychiatrist British hubby who could not secure his job in Britain.

A few year back, a group of NHS heads decided to change training system in the hope of a better training for junior doctors. With the new system, a newly graduated doctor would become a consultant in 11 years time instead of former 14 years. I don’t know the dream will come true or not. But today, NHS job market has been chaos. Many doctors have got less attention on patient’s care as the situation has made them worried and frustrated.

Now the pathetic NHS managers are trying to put a new measure for jobless doctors…Voluntary work abroad!
Well Britain will export doctors very soon.

Jobless doctors 'to be shipped overseas'

Up to 10,000 young doctors who are unable to find jobs in the NHS could be offered voluntary work overseas. An estimated 34,250 doctors have applied for just 18,500 training posts. According to official documents leaked yesterday, the plan was drawn up by NHS managers following the botched introduction of an online appointments system, which could leave thousands of junior doctors without training places this summer..Full story

Jobless junior doctors may be offered VSO work
Guardian Unlimited
A rescue package to find jobs for up to 10000 junior doctors whose careers are in danger of being blighted by a controversial NHS selection procedure includes plans to send some to do voluntary service overseas, a leaked document revealed yesterday.
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How much are you rich?

Well, in my previous post, I just reported about Britain's tops and some outstanding persons you may know very well. Ok ... you may want to measure your wealth. If so, go to chennel 4 to learn which level you are in.

Britain's top 2 are immigrants

Britain’s wealthiest man is Lakshmi Mittal. He was born in Sadulpur Village, in Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the 5th richest person in the world and the richest Indian, with a fortune of U$32 billion according to Forbes.

Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich (who is originally from Russia) remains at Britain’s number two overall with an estimated worth of £10.8 billion.

The world's richest footballer is David Beckham, 31. His wealth has reached to £112 million, and is ranked at world’s 619. He was born in Leytonstone. It is only 15 min drive from my place in East London.

Simon Philip Cowell, 47 is also a big winner in the pop world. His fortune is now about £100 million. He is best known as a judge on the television programs Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, and American Idol. He is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticism of the contestants.

Britain’s richest chef is GORDON RAMSAY, 39, worth £67 M so far. He earns money from his TV shows, restaurants and books I think.

Sources:
http://www.itv.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://independent.co.uk/

Why Iraq news are still on the top of BBC

It's Ok if it is new and interesting news I can see on BBC's top news. But I have no idea whenever a bomb blast happened in Iraq after ?2 years US invasion, BBC put it as a top news. Really boring. I feel that is normal for Iraq even though I am sorry for the deaths.

Half of doctors expect to leave NHS in 10 years -poll

I came across this Reuters news.

Half no longer saw medicine as a job for life, according to the British Medical Association's survey of nearly 1,000 doctors who qualified within the past 12 years.Full story

Many people would believe that government and top medical officers are trying to build a brilliant training programme for doctors.(if you don't know recent changes for doctors, visit here )

Unfortunately in a real situation, that action has led to the instability and unfairness of job market, making many doctors reluctant to stay in NHS.

A brief story is here:
The pathetic computer system MTAS failed to recognise and shortlist many UK graduate brilliant doctors. This has led to doctors' first time demonstration in London and Scotland.( In China, the responsible IT personnel would be sent to jail, I think)

So the government introduced the review group to correct human and computer errors happened in the application system. The ridiculous remedy is to offer all applicants to interview (They are also scared of doctor's boycott and strikes). As a result many consultants have to cancel their out-patient and in-patient care services in order to meet the demand of a large number of candidates. In the UK, out-patient clinic is very important and it is a sought-after chance for general population. For example, in many areas, waiting time to see a neurologist would be 6-8 months.

Don't join NHS for a career

I must say my previous post is rubbish. UK's NHS used to be excellent for both patients and doctors before. But when the chief medical officer who felt , while sitting in his cold and damp office, it was required to improve the system some years previously, there has been devastating consequences. There must be a lobby of supporters for that idea. They did something recently. Unfortunately, that action has left many UK doctors with the unsecured job opportunities. In my opinion is if you are a doc, don't come and work for NHS at the moment. It is a mess. If you are a patient supposed to get treatment in next few months in the UK, don't come here. Consultants would not come to see you as they have to attend interviews where they need to select outstanding candidates for UK's future consultants , AT THE EXPENSE OF RECENTLY ILL PATIENT S'S BENEFITS. Doctors' demonstration occurred last month. Now again, this recommendation has appeared. Read this through!!!

Don't join NHS for a career, say doctors

By Celia Hall
Last Updated: 1:11am BST 12/04/2007

More than two thirds of doctors says they would not recommend medicine as a career as morale in the health service reaches an "all-time low", according to a survey published today.

More than half of the 14,000 doctors who responded said they felt morale at work was "poor" and in the case of junior doctors "terrible".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/12/nhealth112.xml

Want to work for NHS?

Well, many may know very well about Britain's NHS (National Health Service). If you want to join it, your are not necessarily required to be a doctor or a nurse. There could be many posts which is suitable for you. For example, check here. This is a job advert of one of the NHS trusts in Britain. You can get some knowlege of salary as well.

Today's London and murdered teenagers

If you google the UK News, you can easily see the following news. Teenagers... killed by gunshots and knives in London. This evening, one more has been shot in Plaistow which is only 10 minutes drive from my place.

Teenager hurt in street shooting
BBC News - 2 hours ago
A teenager has been shot and seriously injured in east London, a few streets from where 15-year-old Adam Regis was killed last month.
Teenager shot near murder scene Guardian Unlimited
London teenager seriously wounded after shooting InTheNews.co.uk


Fresh Calls to Fight Gun Crime After Latest Teenage Shooting
ChristianToday - 35 minutes ago
A teenager has been seriously injured in an east London shooting incident, which took place just minutes from where youth Adam Regis was killed last month.
Man Arrested After 19-Year-Old Shot In London Life Style Extra
Teenager hurt in street shooting BBC News


Boy killed in knife attack
ITV.com - 25 minutes ago
Two teenagers have been arrested in connection with a gang knife attack that left one boy dead and another critically injured. A 13-year-old and a 19-year old are in custody in connection with the attacks.
Third arrest over teenager's stabbing Guardian Unlimited
Murdered boy had been stabbed before Independent

A Cemetery

Cemetery, originally uploaded by steve_ever_green.

This is a cemetery next to London King Cross Hospital.I think the hospital and cemetery have been close together for over a decade for some reasons.


Sorry for the poor quality of photo as I took it with my Motorola mobile phone. I have to take more footpath in order to avoid bright sky light which would make the photo darker . You know camera phone has not got too much options. I rarely bring my camera when I go out as my mobile phone is reasonably good and convenient for taking photos