DAUK has told national radio listeners that doctors’ career progression is being hindered by a lack of specialty training posts.\r\n\r\nDr Shonnelly Novintan, DAUK Learn Not Blame lead, said hundreds of resident doctors will have no choice but to leave medicine or practise abroad.\r\n\r\nSpeaking to listeners of LBC\u2019s Drivetime programme, Dr Novintan said: \u201cYou have this bottleneck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEveryone is applying for everything out of fear of not being able to have a stable income.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe BMA has put pressure on the Government to come up with a better solution because, from a financial perspective, the tax payer is paying to train each medical student.\r\n\r\n\u201cAnd if they can\u2019t find a job there is no solution other than to look elsewhere for employment or to look abroad.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe NHS is currently short of around 8,850 doctors<\/a>. The UK has fewer doctors and nurses per person than most of its peer countries<\/a>, with billions of pounds of taxpayers\u2019 money<\/a> being spent every year on agency staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DAUK has highlighted the issue of bottlenecks in specialty training<\/a> in blogs by members of our medical student committee.\r\n\r\nDr Novintan said that she also faces a \u2018bottleneck\u2019 after two years of core surgical training.\r\n\r\nShe told LBC: \u201cI\u2019ve done my foundation training and have finished two years of core surgical training. Then I tried to apply for surgical specialty training, but was unsuccessful.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019m now skilled as a surgeon. It\u2019s important to maintain our skillset, or we will lose the skills we\u2019ve been working tirelessly for.\u201d\r\n\r\nListen to Dr Novintan’s interview on the DAUK Instagram at https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNDG4A_Mqs0\/?hl=en<\/a> and https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNDHpc3MIG4\/?hl=en<\/a>\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to our crowd funder<\/a> or by becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DAUK has told national radio listeners that doctors’ career progression is being hindered by a lack of specialty training posts. Dr Shonnelly Novintan, DAUK Learn…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,441],"tags":[706,707],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-education","tag-dr-shonnelly-novintan","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}NHS training bottlenecks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n