| Scots docs being forced to quit (Edinburgh Evening News) |
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SCOTS doctors are being forced to quit the UK by a "shambolic" new NHS training system, medics warned today. Some of the country's most highly qualified doctors cannot find permanent posts in the NHS and are blaming the bureaucratic new recruitment system. Among those facing problems are two Edinburgh brothers, who have failed to land jobs despite qualifying from two of the country's leading medical schools. One of them, Fraser Welsh, is moving to New Zealand after qualifying as a surgeon and then failing to land interviews for dozens of posts. Edinburgh West MP John Barrett and the British Medical Association (BMA) today called for an urgent reform of the training system, pointing out it costs a quarter of a million pounds to train each junior doctor who quits the NHS. |
