@Geoff I'd rather have 3000 people feel free to post a hurried post than have just one person talking to themselves. I have had people tell me that they would post to ebme but you actually put them off!
Getting back to the VRCT I also noticed while reading your blog, that you're not even what they call these day a stakeholder in VRCT so don't see why your even bothered with it, unless like your blog suggests you're a
agent provocateur, may explain those anti-NHS posts and strange points of view!
One thing I have noticed in the past few weeks, some trusts that are involved in staff redeployments due to the PCT redundancies have restricted clinical scientist part 1 training to existing trust employees. Something I haven't seen previously but it is supported under the new Modernising Scientific Careers. This same framework also supports training up of lower grades to practitioner level so it might mean that until training is in place trusts have to recruit more lower grade apprentices . Which is does seem is going to limit the available workforce for at least a couple of years.
