Medicine: Education

(asked on 23rd October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the recommendations of the Mental Health Workforce Plan, published by Health Education England in July 2017, whether his Department plans to allocate additional medical student places to medical schools which have demonstrated a proven track record in producing psychiatrists.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 31st October 2017

On 3 October 2017, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and Health Education England invited universities to bid for 1,000 additional medical school places available from September 2019. This is part of a historic expansion announced by my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health in October 2016 and includes an additional 500 places allocated for September 2018 entry. The published criteria against which bids will be assessed for the remaining 1,000 places include how proposals support specialities such as psychiatry and general practice.

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