Asked by: Helena Dollimore (Labour (Co-op) - Hastings and Rye)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors applied for core anaesthetic training in each of the last five years; and how many training places were available in the same period.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The following table shows the number of doctors who applied for training in the Core Anaesthetics programme, as well as how many training places were available across the United Kingdom in each of the last five years:
Year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Applications | 1,479 | 2,046 | 2,337 | 2,604 | 3,522 |
Training places (posts) | 569 | 566 | 558 | 545 | 542 |
Source: Workforce, Training and Education, Competition Ratios, published by NHS England and available at the following link:
https://medical.hee.nhs.uk/medical-training-recruitment/medical-specialty-training/competition-ratios
Asked by: Helena Dollimore (Labour (Co-op) - Hastings and Rye)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors applied for medical specialty training in each of the last five years; and how many training places were available in the same period.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Doctors undertake two years of foundation training after graduation, which is followed by a choice of core training programmes. Most of those in core training then apply for higher specialty training programmes.
For 2024, there were 4,177 applications across the 25 specialty training programmes that comprise medical specialty training, which came from 2,897 unique applicants due to doctors being able to apply to a number of different specialities when seeking specialty training posts. The number of unique applicants for prior years is not held by the Department.
The attached table shows the number of doctors who applied for training in the 25 individual specialty training programmes that comprise medical specialty training, along with how many training posts were available across the United Kingdom in each speciality, in each of the last five years.
This information is drawn from information published by NHS England on the Competition Ratios for all doctor training specialties each year, which is available at the following link:
Asked by: Helena Dollimore (Labour (Co-op) - Hastings and Rye)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much his Department spent on (a) media and (b) voice training for Ministers between 4 July 2022 and 4 July 2024.
Answered by Karin Smyth - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The Department spent a total of £1,500, including VAT, on media training for ministers between 4 July 2022 and 4 July 2024. There was no expenditure on voice training for ministers during this period.
Asked by: Helena Dollimore (Labour (Co-op) - Hastings and Rye)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve treatment for people with a glioblastoma brain tumour.
Answered by Wes Streeting - Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Like so many Hon. members across the House, I dearly miss the late Baroness McDonagh, who was sadly taken from us by glioblastoma. I’m determined to improve overall survival rates and treatment for rarer cancers like these and I met with officials and leading clinicians on glioblastomas this week to discuss what more we can do.