Psychiatry and student recruitment

‘Mental health is a priority area for the NHS workforce and for public benefit,’ writes Paul Garrud.Photograph: sturti/Getty ImagesIn your article (Psychiatry and nursing numbers remain low, Mental health supplement, 15 May), it is suggested that medical schools may be making the recruitment problems to psychiatry worse by selecting the wrong kind of students. The article states that only three UK medical schools accept psychology A-level for entry to medicine. I must correct this. E