Junior Doctors: Training

(asked on 21st April 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of junior doctors who started their training in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 27th April 2022

The following table shows the number of applicants who accepted foundation year one medical training posts in the United Kingdom each academic year from 2017 to 2021. The foundation programme is a UK-wide.

2017

7,481

2018

7,470

2019

7,499

2020

7,577

2021

7,694

Note:

This data represents the numbers of accepted posts. The number of applicants which started these posts in trusts may vary with some withdrawals.

Reticulating Splines