The British Medical Association strongly advises pupils who want to be doctors that they need clinical work experience to even be considered for a medical degree. But now thousands of children, including those on bursaries – around a third of the estimated 650,000 private-school pupils in the UK – are struggling to find work experience at key hospitals.
And why? One reason. Ideology.
One would-be medical student from Emanuel School in south London was told by King's College Hospital Trust – their local NHS trust – that pupils from private schools were not admitted on to their courses, even if they lived in the area.And the MoS has learned of another, on a 100 per cent bursary, who 'applied to every hospital trust and GP practice within an hour of her home' including Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Northampton General Hospital and Milton Keynes University Hospital but 'received either rejections or no responses from almost all' because of the school she attends.
Labour'a war on private schools has been enthusiastically taken up by all the big NHS trusts, so they are ensuring where you went to school is the determinining factor in whether they take you on, all while they plaster their hospitals with 'anti-racism' propaganda.
Last night, Gordon West, head of careers at prestigious independent school Stowe, said: 'This young woman is not from a wealthy background at all; she's from one of the highest priority groups there are. 'Policies like King's College don't account for stories like hers. By excluding private-school kids, they also shut out students on 100 per cent bursaries, many of whom come from families with very limited means.' He added that it was a common story for sixth formers desperate for medical experience to be turned away.
Well, it's not like we need home-grown medical personnel, is it? Not when we can import them from the Third World?
Sources at NHS England said it was for individual trusts to allocate work experience placements.
Labour is a cancer in this country. And it's fully metastasised.
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