Medicine: Education

(asked on 30th January 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what fiscal steps he is taking to ensure that the UK has the ability to train sufficient numbers of medical students for the NHS.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 6th February 2019

The government is delivering on its commitment to roll out an extra 1,500 medical school places. Around 630 have taken up places on medical courses in September 2018, bringing the total intake for 2018/19 to 6,701 - the highest on record. A further 690 will be available to students in 2019/20 and the remaining 180 places will be available in 2020/21.

The NHS has established a national workforce group, which will look at the future medical workforce as part of delivering on the workforce aims set out in the Long-Term Plan. The NHS will publish a detailed workforce implementation plan in the Spring.

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