General Practitioners: Training
(asked on 13th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding his Department plans to allocate in 2020 to support expanding training places in general practice.
This question was answered on 16th January 2020
In 2019/20, Health Education England (HEE) advertised 3,250 general practitioner (GP) training posts and recruited 3,540 GP trainees.
From 2020/21 HEE is planning on advertising to recruit to 3,500 GP training posts.
Discussions around the funding for training places in general practice for 2020/21 are ongoing with HEE and will be confirmed shortly.