Making the new deal for junior doctors happen

EDITOR, - Julie K Moore and colleagues' report of improvements in the preregistration year in the Wirral is encouraging.1 It contains two aspects that deserve greater emphasis as possible contributors to the process of change.

Firstly, medical students considering which jobs to apply for may not be as powerless as they sometimes feel. If these “consumers” of basic medical education vote with their feet (in this case only a third of posts could be filled) they provide compelling reasons why managers …