Chief Medical Officers Annual Report.
Comment from the Medical Women’s Federation
on the Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report
The Medical Women’s
Federation is very interested to read the views of the Chief Medical Officer
in the chapter entitled “Opportunity Blocks” in his 2006 report.
It highlights the problems facing women in medicine, especially the dismal
lack of opportunities for accessing less than full time training or return
to work schemes. Most women doctors have a uterus and may wish to use it.
It costs £250, 000 of taxpayer’s money to train each doctor. Now
that 60 – 70% of qualifying doctors will be female these issues need
to be addressed for the future of the medical workforce. Over the 90 years
since our inception in 1917 we have been the largest organisation representing
women doctors in all specialties across the UK and have been lobbying on these
very issues. Women doctors around the country will be delighted that the CMO
is taking them seriously.
