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Written question asked by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff (Crossbench), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour) on Monday, 26 March 2007.


Health: Doctors

Question
asked Her Majesty's Government:How the Medical Training Application Service is detecting those applications for posts that were completed with the assistance of an outside agency.
Answer

There is a procedure written by the London postgraduate deanery, which advises recruiters how to question appropriately the probity of an application should there be concerns that applications have been substantially formulated around the content provided by a third party. The procedure has been issued to all recruiters involved in selection to specialty training programmes through the Medical Training Application Service.


Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
2530; 690 c240WA
Session
2006-07
Subjects
Applications Resident doctors NHS Recruitment Training
Link
View this Written question on www.publications.parliament.uk