Doctors: Recruitment

(asked on 8th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of trends in the level of recruitment of doctors after the UK has left the EU.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 13th January 2020

The Department monitors and analyses overall staffing levels across the National Health Service, and we are working across Government to ensure there will continue to be sufficient staff, including doctors, to deliver the high-quality services on which the public relies following the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.

The Government has funded an extra 1,500 undergraduate medical school places - a 25% increase taking the total number of medical school training places in England to 7,500 by 2020/21. Five new medical schools will open in England by September 2020 to help deliver the expansion.

The interim NHS People Plan, published on 3 June 2019, puts the workforce at the heart of the NHS and will ensure we have the staff needed to deliver high quality care. The final NHS People Plan will be published in early 2020.

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