Doctors: Training

(asked on 20th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the timetable is for increasing medical training places by 1,500; and what assessment he has made of the need for new medical schools as a result of that increase.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 6th September 2017

500 additional places have already been allocated to existing medical schools and will be made available for students commencing courses from 1 August 2018.

We have consulted on how best to allocate the remaining 1,000 places by August 2019.

The Government response to the consultation was published on 9 August 2017 and is available at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/expanding-undergraduate-medical-education

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