Making junior doctors’ lives easier

The ongoing dispute between junior doctors in England and the government has focused attention on many of the difficulties that juniors face in their work. But Wendy Reid, director of education and quality at Health Education England, says that one outcome has been to highlight some of the work that Health Education England has already been doing to tackle those issues.

“There was a real sense of us being able to take a breath, take a step back, and say, ‘That’s wrong—actually we can fix that,’” she says.

This year HEE will be looking at the annual review of competency progression (ARCP) process. “There’s a sense that doctors in training in the UK are heavily regulated, and …