MTAS - 100% fuck up

The new system for recruiting junior doctors is a disaster. Why is anybody surprised? This is a centralised system designed by the central bureaucracy and for the central bureaucracy in order to make it easier for them. As DK eloquently points out of the central bureaucracy:

they are a gaggle of lying, incompetent cockmonkeys who aren't capable of lacing their own shoes without getting lost in pointless deception and trying to charge you for the privilege.

There is no clinical need for a centralised system for giving each hospital its ration of junior doctors. There is no clinical need for everybody to start at the same time. It is the hospitals that know what staff they need and the junior doctors more senior colleagues that know when they have learn a sufficient amount to progress with their training.

Let the senior doctors overseeing the juniors training decide when they can move on, and let the hospitals set their own recruitment systems to fill their recruitment needs as and when they arise. If a group of hospitals think their needs are similar enough to decide to create a standardised system in order to reduce their recruitment costs then great, if they decide that an IT bases system is the one for them then that is what they should use (but hopefully it would be a system that has some kind of security to it).