The manner in which UK medical students are allocated foundation jobs is a controversial system. As medical students in the UK, we are subject to this system and have found students and junior doctors have varying opinions on it. Ultimately this led us to question, is this is a fair system?
The implementation at the Sheffield's Children NHS Foundation Trust was successful in satisfying the aim of CG176 by increasing adherence and decreasing CT head scans. This success could be explained by the formal implementation to the new cohort of doctors and better physician agreement with the guidelines. The increase in adherence is contrary to the previous studies.
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