As a student radiographer on placement recently I was at a large local hospital which had had an entire new hospital build in the grounds courtesy of the governments PFI initiative. The link radiographer, a somewhat old-school woman, was also in charge of the logistics of moving the entire department over to the new building as well has her usual duties as a reporting radiographer. This left very little time for her to actually look after us as students. I'm aware that the jobs she did were very demanding on her time but as some of my colleagues had never been in department before a little hand holding might not have gone amiss, certainly to start with. All in all the impression I came away with was that we were at best and inconvenience and at worst an impediment to the running of the department, I think I prefered it when students were used as slave labour. I can't blame her for doing her job but whoever it was down to, to organise our pastoral care while out of university should really have checked that the members of staff who were responsible for us actually had time to be responsible for us.