Doctors: Training
(asked on 6th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of NHS doctors have completed foundation training and progressed into speciality training in each year since 2010.
The UK Foundation Programme Office collects data on the self-reported intended career destinations of second year foundation doctors who have completed their foundation training across the United Kingdom.
The proportion of UK wide trainees reporting completion of the foundation programme and progression into specialty training since 2011 is available in the following table.
Destinations for Foundation Programme Year 2 doctors - year on year comparison | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 |
Specialty training in UK - run-through training programme | 32.8% | 24.0% | 29.5% | 29.9% | 33.5% | 34.0% |
Specialty training in UK - core training programme | 15.4% | 26.0% | 26.8% | 29.6% | 30.5% | 34.0% |
Specialty training in UK - academic programme | 0.7% | 1.3% | 1.6% | 1.5% | 1.6% | 1.5% |
Specialty training in UK – FTSTA | 0% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.8% | 1.1% |
Specialty training in UK - deferred for higher degree | 0.4% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% |
Specialty training in UK - deferred for statutory reasons | 1.1% | 0.5% | 0.3% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% |
Sub-total for specialty (incl. general practitioner) training in UK | 50.4% | 52.0% | 58.5% | 64.4% | 67.0% | 71.3% |
Locum appointment for training (LAT) in UK | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.5% | 0.6% | 0.7% | 0.4% |
Service appointment in UK | 8.3% | 9.2% | 5.6% | 3.5% | 3.3% | 2.3% |
Other appointment in UK (e.g. anatomy demonstrator, higher education) | 7% | 5.5% | 6.1% | 2.3% | 1.9% | 3.0% |
Still seeking employment as a doctor in the UK | 5.9% | 8.6% | 8.4% | 7.6% | 7.4% | 6.3% |
Specialty training outside UK | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.6% | 1.1% | 0.8% |
Other appointment outside UK | 7.8% | 6.1% | 3.9% | 4.8% | 6.6% | 7.4% |
Still seeking employment as a doctor outside the UK | 4.6% | 4.3% | 5.1% | 6.5% | 5.5% | 3.7% |
Not practising medicine - taking a career break | 13.1% | 13.1% | 11.3% | 9.4% | 6.1% | 4.6% |
Not practising medicine - permanently left profession | 0.6% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.1% |
Total signed off, known destinations | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% |