Junior Doctors: Training
(asked on 29th March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to ensure that adequate numbers of junior doctors are being trained.
On 4 October 2016 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced that the number of medical training places available to students each year will be expanded by 1,500 (25%) to ensure the National Health Service in England has the future supply of doctors it needs to continue to provide safe, compassionate care. In September 2018, the Government will fund 500 additional student places through medical schools in England each year. The Government is currently consulting on how to make available the further 1,000 places from 2019/20 to medical schools in England.
Health Education England is responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient future supply of staff to meet the workforce requirements of the English health system. Information on future supply and specialty fill rates can be found in Health Education England’s Workforce Plan for England, available at: