Summary
The NHS in Wales is increasingly looking abroad to recruit staff to meet its day-to-day needs, but with ambitious targets to significantly boost staff numbers by 2010, it must encourage young children to consider the health service as a career when they leave school. This week is NHS Open Week, the third annual drive to encourage youngsters to consider working in a clinical environment. This year the Welsh Assembly Government initiative will bring the hospital to the future generation of doctors, nurses and radiologists, as its organisers told Health Editor Madeleine Brindley
A GENERATION ago a career as a doctor or a nurse would top the 'When I grow up I want to be ...' wish list for young children, guaranteeing a steady stream of eager young recruits into Wales' medical schools and eventually into the NHS.See the full content of this document
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Catch Them Young to Fill Those Empty Nhs Posts
Not so today. Today's young children, influenced by the growing number of television shows featuring the more unusual health- related careers, are more likely to want to be forensic scientists, pathologists and criminal psychologists thanks to a steady televisual diet of programmes such as Silent Witness and Cracker.
While this may be good news in the sense that children are no longer growing up thinking about the NHS solely in terms of doctors and nurses, there is also a down side to such interest in these type of specialist posts, not least the fact that television tends to portray the glamorous side of the job, rather than the day-to-day reality...See the full content of this document
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