Doctors: Training

(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether it is the Government's policy to ensure that all medical trainees gain experience working in mental health disciplines.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 24th July 2017

Health Education England (HEE) has already increased to 50% the proportion of doctors undertaking a four month psychiatry post during their foundation programme training and the Royal College of Psychiatry will complete the review of this expansion with a view to HEE commissioning a further expansion from 2019.

In addition to this, HEE is to ensure that from 2018 all foundation programme doctors not undertaking the four month training post will be required to complete a two week ‘taster’ attachment in psychiatry.

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