Medicine: Education

(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the number of (a) pathology, (b) radiology and (c) histology students.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 9th January 2023

Health Education England is continuing to take forward priorities identified in the Cancer workforce plan – phase 1 progress update, and is investing an additional £50 million in 2022/23 to further expand the cancer and diagnostics workforce. This includes expanding the postgraduate medical training of key cancer related medical professions, including pathologists, histopathologists, radiologists.

More generally, the Government has funded an additional 1,500 undergraduate medical school places each year for domestic students in England, a 25% increase over three years. We have seen the first graduates from this expansion enter foundation training from August 2022. The expansion will increase the pool of students who may wish to go on to further post-graduate study.

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