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How do you get a job that allows you to spend three months working before starting training? Can this be explained? Does it mean that unless someone can pull strings and get you a post as a school-leaver you can't come into the system? Or will every course start with 3 months practical work?

The usual well-meaning suggestions being made by those who won't have to bother themselves with the realities of delivering them.

All of the issues that have been raised could be addressed using existing laws, processes, policies and plain old common sense. We are just very bad at applying these in the NHS...