NHS planning?

Do you remember the disaster that was the new NHS Junior Doctor recruitment system/ Well it is back in the news, the BBC are reporting that "Junior doctors are being asked to work longer hours, often unpaid, because of staff shortfalls" and why are there staff shortfalls? It would appear that the geniuses who designed the afore-mentioned IT system didn't allow for doctors to be appointed during a year, only at the designated time. This makes sense in IT consultant world but in the real world, doctors get sick, get pregnant, move even die - only now they cannot be replaced until the next "transfer window".

Government IT projects generally don't work...and this one was not an exception to the rule.