The message in blogspace has been that things have been quiet.
As far as the blogging is concerned thay have, but life has not been quiet. Time has been spent fighting through the red tape; criminal checks that take 5 weeks in the UK that take less than 24 hours in NZ being the predominant hurdle, as well as showing all concerned the same pieces of paper that some other agency has verified. The GMC being happy that GP vocational training has been demonstrated is not good enough for the next empire in line, and the locum agencies are as bad, being staffed concrete thought obsessed dorks. Makes me sound like a Tory candidate standing on the same platform as Boris Johnson.
Anyway, the official ” I am a GP”piece of paper has been obtained, so the next stage of finding some proper work beyond medical record updating(“isn’t that what medical students do in the summer holidays’“, as an eminent O&G doc commented this week) is currently active.
The whole CRB thing is an eye opener. It appears to be the ultimate plan to keep the country safe from the bad people, by so many proving thay are not one of the bad people. And when an adverse event occurs, as in recent press report regarding builder working in school, the next step will be to widen the net. How long before everyone will have a current CRB certificate pinned to our jackets along with our national identity badge. How many weeks will they take to process by that stage?
Anyway, must dash……. off to lunch with Boris.
quite ridiculous I know….box ticking culture. Despite being a professor of paediatrics etc I still have had to have separate crbs for school cricket……you voted them in. Send my regards to Boris.