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Recruitment into psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Storer*
Affiliation:
Chairman, Manpower Committee, The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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The major problem of manpower planning in psychiatry has until fairly recently been one of securing enough posts in the training grades to place doctors wishing to train in psychiatry and to ensure an adequate supply of applicants for consultant posts. Numerous consultant vacancies and a ‘bottleneck’ between registrar and senior registrar grades was the frustrating combination largely consequent upon the failure of some regional health authorities to fund the posts which Joint Planning Advisory Committee (JPAC) had approved.

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