General Practitioners: Training

(asked on 25th October 2016) - View Source
Questioner
Sharon Hodgson Portrait
Sharon Hodgson
(Labour - Washington and Gateshead South)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many training places for general practice were (a) commissioned and (b) filled in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 2nd November 2016

The following table sets out the number of commissions and places filled for general practitioner training in the last five years.

Year entering training

Commissions

Actual

2012

2,687

2,669

2013

2,761

2,738

2014

3,067

2,688

2015

3,117

2,769

2016

3,250

2,989

Source: Health Education England

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