Medical residents can't prescribe meds in the UK

How then, are they going to learn? Got to start sometime:

Of course these newly qualified doctors cannot prescribe, Professor Bramble. Please take your head out of your arse for one minute and listen. Prescribing is a PRACTICAL skill, learnt on the wards by apprenticeship. Let the doctors learn in the normal way, as they have always done. And, if you must test them, test them at the end of the job. They will all pass then.