Almost a quarter of junior doctors drop out of their NHS training in England after only two years, new figures show.
Data from the Medical Programme Board has revealed 23 per cent of 6,000 doctors did not apply for the next stage of their training last year.
Some of those who drop out choose to take a gap year, while others continue to work in the NHS but in some other capacity.
According to Dr Shree Datta, chair of the British Medical Association's junior doctor committee, "understaffing makes our work much more intense and does not go unnoticed by our patients".
However, a spokesperson for the Department of Health said there was no evidence to support this theory.
Recently, the largest UK public sector union, Unison, began legal proceedings against the NHS for the proposed changes to the healthcare organisation.
According to Unison, the health minister Andrew Lansley and others failed to ask the public whether they wanted the shake-up to take place.
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It baffles me how the NHS can be understaffed. They get so much in tax each year there must surely be a vast amount of money wasted in unproductive areas.
Aside from that though it must be a huge worry that so many trainees are dropping out before completion.