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• 1. Modernising Medical Careers - the new curriculum for the foundation years in postgraduate education and training

  The launch of the new UK-wide curriculum for junior doctors on 4 April 2005, as part of the Modernising Medical Careers programme, signals a groundbreaking change in postgraduate medical training.

  20 January 2009

  CMO public health topics archive section

• 2. Government response to the Health Select Committee report 'Modernising medical careers'

  The Health Select Committee published their report into Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) on 8 May 2008. The Government has now set out its response to the conclusions and recommendations of that report

  7 July 2008

  Publications section

• 3. Modernising medical careers : the next steps

  The Modernising Medical Careers initiative takes a radical look at the way we train doctors, the speed and quality with which we do it and the end product of that process. It examines the opportunities for streamlining training and increasing flexibility.

  15 April 2004

  Publications section

• 4. Choice and opportunity: Modernising medical careers for non-consultant career grade doctors

  This document sets out for consultation key principles in applying the Government's initiative on Modernising Medical Careers to the Non-Consultant Career Grades (NCCGs), which have for too long been regarded as a professional cul de sac.

  1 July 2003

  Publications section

• 5. The Secretary of State for Health's response to Aspiring to Excellence: Final report of the Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers

  This is the Secretary of State for Health's response to the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers, led by Professor Sir John Tooke.

  28 February 2008

  Publications section

• 6. Choice and opportunity: Modernising medical careers for non-consultant career grade doctors

  This document sets out for consultation key principles in applying the Government's initiative on Modernising Medical Careers to the Non-Consultant Career Grades (NCCGs), which have for too long been regarded as a professional cul de sac.

  1 July 2003

  Closed consultations section

• 7. Modernising Medical Careers (MMC): allocation of funding for 2005/06 and release to postgraduate deaneries

  Letter from Nic Greenfield, Deputy Director of Workforce, detailing the allocation of funding in to postgraduate deans for the implementation of Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) Foundation programmes in 2005/06.

  29 July 2005

  Dear colleague letters section

• 8. Opportunity for doctors to attend discussion events on Modernising Medical Careers (MMC)

  Letter to NHS Medical Directors from the NHS Medical Director and Director of NHS Employers notifying them of a series of national events to involve doctors in decisions for MMC in 2010 and beyond and to influence operational processes for 2009.

  2 April 2008

  Dear colleague letters section

• 9. Modernising medical careers: the response of the four UK Health Ministers to the consultation on Unfinished business - proposals for reform of the senior house officer grade

  This document has been prepared jointly by the four UK health departments and indicates how, in response to the consultation ('Unfinished Business'), modernisation of post-graduate medical education will be taken forward in the context of wider workforce reforms.

  26 February 2003

  Publications section

• 10. 23/06/2004: Modernising Medical Careers

  This letter provides information on a new approach to postgraduate medical education and training.

  23 June 2004

  Dear colleague letters section

• 11. Operational framework for foundation training

  Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) is a broad policy statement from the four UK Health Ministers that was published in February 2003. It sets a new direction for postgraduate medical education, reflecting the formal consultation on the proposals originally set out in Unfinished Business: reforming the SHO grade. The Operational Framework for Foundation Training has been developed to help support the implementation and delivery of foundation training that will commence across the UK in August 2005. From that date it is anticipated that all UK medical graduates will undertake a two-year Foundation Training Programme.

  18 July 2005

  Publications section

• 12. Appointments to dental senior house officer (SHO) posts

  As the Modernising Medical Careers programme does not include dentistry, there will be a continued need for senior house officer (SHO) posts in the dental specialties after the introduction of Foundation Year 1 and 2 posts to medicine. This letter from the Chief Dental Officer (CDO) asks for these posts to be retained.

  19 January 2006

  Dear colleague letters section

• 13. Improving rewards for NHS consultants and modernising medical careers

  Letter from Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health to Dr Ian Bogle, Chairman of Council, British Medical Association (BMA) and Dianne Jeffery, Chairman of the NHS Confederation following a majority vote against the contract framework that the Health Departments, NHS Confederation and BMA agreed in June 2002.

  23 January 2003

  Dear colleague letters section

• 14. Choice and opportunity: Modernising medical careers for non-consultant career grade doctors - summary of outcome

  This consultation was widely welcomed with many respondents commenting on how well the recommendations captured the key issues that doctors in the Non-Consultant Career grades feel need to be addressed.

  1 July 2003

  Responses to consultations section

• 15. Modernising Scientific Careers Listening Events 2008

  During August to October 2008, the Strategic Health Authorities, together with Wales and Northern Ireland, organised a series of listening events around the UK on the Modernising Scientific Careers Programme.

  20 February 2009

  Chief Scientific Officer section

• 16. Doctors for the future: Standing Medical Advisory Committee advice (6/2001)

  This follow-on discussion from advice from April 2001 covers what could enable doctors to have satisfying careers in the future and what changes might be necessary in the ways they work, bearing in mind the apparent shortage of doctors to implement the NHS Plan

  1 January 2001

  Publications section

• 17. Implementing the Tooke Report: Department of Health update

  Professor Sir John Tooke led an inquiry into Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) that culminated in a final report, Aspiring to Excellence, published in January 2008. The Secretary of State for Health gave his formal response to that report the following month. Subsequent to those publications, the Parliamentary Health Select Committee (HSC) published the findings of their own inquiry into MMC in May. One of the HSC recommendations was that the Department of Health should publish an updated response to the 47 recommendations in Sir John's original report. The Department agreed to that HSC recommendation and our updated response is published here.

  14 November 2008

  Publications section

• 18. The future of the healthcare science workforce: Modernising scientific careers, the next steps - a consultation

  This consultation document sets out proposals to transform the future training and career pathways of the healthcare science workforce. These proposals have been developed as the result of detailed discussions with nearly 3,000 stakeholders. This UK initiative will be taken forward by the four countries in partnership with all major stakeholders, including patient groups, to ensure that the healthcare science workforce is fit for the future in a rapidly changing and evolving healthcare environment.

  26 November 2008

  Closed consultations section

• 19. Modernising medical careers - Improvement to junior doctors' access to recruitment communications

  Letter asking trusts to support junior doctors applying for specialty training in 2008 by expanding workplace access to external email providers for the purpose of job searches and receiving email notifications.

  14 January 2008

  Dear colleague letters section

• 20. Speech by John Hutton MP, 29th November 2002, BMJ Medical Careers Fair

  John Hutton MP, Minister of State for Health, speaks at the BMJ Medical Careers Fair, Business Design Centre, London

  5 December 2003

  Speeches section