ABSTRACT
As professionals, one should have a public duty to ensure that training is appropriate for practice and available to the number of students needing to train. The availability of placements can be problematic with the continuing increase in the number of training courses for counsellors. The National Health Service is changing structurally at breakneck pace and for the poor training organisation it is too big a task to try to understand whom to contact to make this happen. The way forward is for formal links to be established by the managers of counselling services and the training organisations. The level of counselling training needs to be acceptable to the relevant professional bodies and will also leads to accreditation/ registration with British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy/Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in Primary Care. Primary care specific trainings need to be context specific and prepare trainees in time limited work.
