Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on responding to the recommendations of the Shape of Training review of October 2013.

A Ministerial Statement and the report of the Shape of Training United Kingdom Steering Group was published on 11 August 2017 here:

https://www.shapeoftraining.co.uk/1739.asp

Since then the four UK Health Departments and associated education bodies have established, with the General Medical Council, the Curriculum Oversight Group. This Group is engaging with the medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties to consider how training pathways and curricula might be adapted in each specialty to meet future patient and service needs in accordance with the Shape of Training principles.