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I thought I had had a bad day at work.
Then I checked the NHS BLOG DOCTOR emails.
It’s all there - people with no interviews, people being told they’ve got interviews and then told they haven’t, deaneries STILL not having posted their results, website crashes, emails not being sent, interview bookings not working, one thread after another about people who still don’t know if they have a job and others who know their career is over. I, along with 30,000 others, have been sitting, hands shaking, at my computer since 9am (it is now 6:30pm) and still don’t know if I am in with a chance of remaining in my home come August. There has been little to no communication with us. If you thought morale was low up until this point…. I would be seriously interested in an audit of how many clinical mistakes have been made […]
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