‘Pay out junior doctors in jobs blunder’

♦ Hundreds of junior doctors who were told to reapply for jobs after a recruitment blunder led could be due compensation, the Royal College of Physicians has said.

The process to fill hundreds of hospital positions must be re-run after an error gave candidates incorrect scores, meaning some were offered the wrong jobs. On the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Professor Jane Dacre, the president of the RCP, said that those “severely” financially affected should receive compensation.

“We hope the majority of people will get the same or similar jobs. But there are likely to be a smaller number who have made life decisions,” she said. “We’re desperately sorry. This is the last thing that anybody wanted.”