IceDragon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...3/ndocs113.xml

"The Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) was criticised for failing to take into account experience, not using applicants' CVs and asking candidates instead for recipes and creative writing pieces which were given a score."

Unbelievable? Nothing is unbelievable any more.

g hall

You couldn't make it up - could you ?

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TonyG

The comment is asinine, but a distraction from the real problem.
Eight years ago Bliar announced a massive increase in the numbers of doctors that were to be put through medical schools. This was of course to combat the shortage of doctors and the dire state of the NHS.
The problems started when at the same time, they launched recruitment drives all over the world, from Canada to the Philipines and raped other countries for their doctors. When they poured over here because of he financial inducements nobody told them that they should go home when our own doctors came through.
In addition, there was no slowdown in recruitment and training once it became clear that the targets were going to be met.
And to make matters even worse, Labour, having 'invested' (read 'wasted') all the extra cash found that they could no longer afford the cost of the vastly inflated NHS and so started initiating cutbacks (partly caused by the 125% hike in the drugs bill over the same period).
Unfortunately, doctors were still coming through because they were committed to their degrees etc when the government closed the doors on them.
Hence, we have a surfeit of expensively trained doctors and no jobs for most of them.
Meanwhile a lot of African countries have shortages but nobody wants to go there.

Way to go Bliar!

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