Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical students there were in each year since 2011 excluding the additional (a) 500 places introduced in October 2018 and (b) 1000 places introduced in October 2019.
The following table shows Office for Students (OfS) analysis of Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data for the total number of students studying pre-clinical undergraduate medical courses in England from 2012 to 2015.
Number of undergraduate medical students by academic year
Year course started | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Number of medical students | 32,165 | 31,605 | 31,410 | 31,100 |
Source: OfS analysis of HESA data
Notes:
- These data are a full-person equivalent headcount of undergraduate students at all publicly funded providers in England, studying medicine full-time.
- Students on graduate entry medical courses are included in these counts.
- Each number is rounded to the nearest five.
- The Department does not hold data for the year 2011.
- Data for the year 2016 is expected to be released in July 2018.
- OfS was formerly known as the Higher Education Funding Council for England.