Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'

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Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
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Only when one of the candidates challenged the decision did ANRO realize its error. A subsequent Significant Incident Review showed a complex and confused approach to using spreadsheets led to the disaster. "As a consequence of this all the candidates from the Wales Region did not score highly enough when all candidate scores were ranked nationally and all candidates from the Wales Region were 'unappointable'," the report said.

Although the regional scoring issue hit Wales, potentially all the candidates across the cohort of 400 could have been affected, as replacements were required for the vacant Welsh positions. ANRO closed the application process while it investigated. It found 35 candidates had been affected.Excel Hell: It's not just blame for pandemic pandemonium being spread between the sheets

ANRO was previously part of Health Education England , which has now been merged with NHS England, the government quango running the NHS in England.Meanwhile, doctors close to the recruitment process have expressed their concerns about the lack of transparency throughout the debacle.

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