The BMA has joined forces with the BAPIO and is in talks with government officials after learning that almost 11,500 junior doctors working for them could lose their jobs because of a law introduced by the government.

Earlier this year hundreds of doctors held demonstrations outside the Home Office in London after the government’s decision to introduce work permits for trainee doctors was passed as a law.

DR Joe Hilborne, chairman of the British Medical Association junior doctors committee said “the government is forcing these trainee doctors into taking non existent jobs and that would mean that they would not be gaining any important skills. In these circumstances the immigrant doctors will only prefer to leave back for home than stay and work.”

Meanwhile, the BAPIO has issued a two weeks notice to the DOH and the home office in order to review regulations on the law.

As the only major organization campaigning for equal employment rights, the notice is a requisite in order to move any important regulation.

According to a survey conducted by the British medical Association about 21,000 junior doctors will be competing for 9,500 trainee posts in England in 2007.

The BAPIO chairman Dr Ramesh Mehta stated on the company’s website that the decision to take legal action against the government was made as they received “no response” from the government.