From Dr Andrew Rowland.

Sir, Martin Wolf is absolutely right that the implementation of the Modernising Medical Careers applications process has left us with an inflexible system that threatens professional standards in the NHS. Thousands of junior doctors are now in posts for which they are massively overqualified, in areas where they do not want to be or specialities they would not have not chosen. Many are being underpaid by their new employers, who claim that they have had insufficient time to identify the hours their new trainees are working.