General Practitioners: Recruitment
(asked on 3rd December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of graduating medical students opted for general practice in each year since 2010.
The following table indicates the number of posts commissioned and filled and the fill rate for general practitioner (GP) training in England since 2010.
| Posts Commissioned | Posts Filled | % Filled |
2010 | 2,732 | 2,800 | 102.49% |
2011 | 2,672 | 2,658 | 99.48% |
2012 | 2,687 | 2,669 | 99.33% |
2013 | 2,761 | 2,738 | 99.17% |
Source: National Recruitment Office for GP training and Health Education England
The final fill rate for 2014 recruitment rounds will be confirmed by Health Education England (HEE) once all trainees have started in their training posts.
HEE has also been mandated to ensure that 50% of trainees completing foundation level training enter GP training programmes by 2016. To achieve this, HEE plans to increase GP training to 3,250 places per year by 2016 from an average of approximately 2,700 per annum over the last 5 years (representing a 20% increase).