JUNIOR DOCTORS have warned that a botched recruitment system could impact on hospital services next week when thousands of trainee medics take up new posts.

With just days to go before the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) programme is implemented on August 1, hundreds of junior doctors across the country are moving to jobs which have been secured at the last minute.

It is claimed that many do not know which hospital they have been assigned to or what hours they will be working. An estimated 400 medics in Scotland have yet to find out if they have a training post at all.

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