General Practitioners: Training
(asked on 29th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to increase the number GP training places; and how many additional places will be made available.
This question was answered on 7th February 2020
In 2019/20 Health Education England (HEE) advertised 3,250 general practitioner (GP) training posts and 3,540 doctors accepted a place.
From 2020/21 HEE is planning on advertising 3,500 GP training posts.
Discussions regarding the number of GP training places made available from 2020/21 will be confirmed in due course.