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.
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.