Post by FKoE on Aug 11, 2004 16:19:13 GMT -5
TOFFEE-NOSED medical consultants are about to experience a rise in their blood pressure levels.
A recruitment campaign to bring more working class Scousers into the medical profession is to be launched, ata cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The Department of Health will offer to pay the fees of poorer northern students ina bid to lose the snooty image attached to hospital consultants.
They want more people such as Liverpool actor Mark Moraghan's character in BBC1's Holby City - Dr Owen Davis.
They also want to lose the image of toffee-nosed consultants, immortalised by actor James Robertson Justice, who played Sir Lancelot Spratt in the Doctor series of hospital comedies.
The north west has been chosen as one of nine places where the £9m doctors' scheme will be piloted.
Under the plan, variable tuition fees for the fifth and sixth years of a medical degree will be paid by the NHS.
Fees for the second and third years of fast-track degrees for mature students will also be paid.
In some cases individual students stand to save more than £6,000 in charges.
The scheme will also apply to dental students.
The move, unveiled by health minister John Hutton, is part of a wider campaign to recruit more NHS staff from underprivileged backgrounds.
Mr Hutton said: "We need more health professionals, from all walks of life."
Recent research found that 74% of medical students are from the top three social classes.
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"Doctor's son's become Doctor's, Docker's son's go on the Dole" - Jimmy Corkhill
A recruitment campaign to bring more working class Scousers into the medical profession is to be launched, ata cost of hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The Department of Health will offer to pay the fees of poorer northern students ina bid to lose the snooty image attached to hospital consultants.
They want more people such as Liverpool actor Mark Moraghan's character in BBC1's Holby City - Dr Owen Davis.
They also want to lose the image of toffee-nosed consultants, immortalised by actor James Robertson Justice, who played Sir Lancelot Spratt in the Doctor series of hospital comedies.
The north west has been chosen as one of nine places where the £9m doctors' scheme will be piloted.
Under the plan, variable tuition fees for the fifth and sixth years of a medical degree will be paid by the NHS.
Fees for the second and third years of fast-track degrees for mature students will also be paid.
In some cases individual students stand to save more than £6,000 in charges.
The scheme will also apply to dental students.
The move, unveiled by health minister John Hutton, is part of a wider campaign to recruit more NHS staff from underprivileged backgrounds.
Mr Hutton said: "We need more health professionals, from all walks of life."
Recent research found that 74% of medical students are from the top three social classes.
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"Doctor's son's become Doctor's, Docker's son's go on the Dole" - Jimmy Corkhill