Health Professions: Training
(asked on 4th September 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how much is paid annually to each individual provider sector to provide (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate healthcare training.
The following is a table of the funding paid to individual provider sectors for undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare training.
Sector | Postgraduate Medical and Dental Funding
£ million | Undergraduate Medical and Dental Funding
£ million |
NHS – Providers1 | 1,449 | 770 |
NHS – Other2 | 300 | 33 |
Higher Education | 11 | 53 |
Local Government | 0 | 0 |
Other3 | 49 | 10 |
Total | 1,810 | 866 |
Source: Health Education England Analysis by sector of future workforce expenditure
1NHS Providers’ include payments for placements for both secondary care postgraduate medical and dental training, and also hospital placements for general practice (GP) trainees.
2 ‘NHS Other’ includes payments to clinical commissioning groups and commissioning support units relating to GP and Community Dental Training.
3 ‘Other’ refers to coding that is not specific enough to indicate either the sector or the type of trainee, or it relates to multi-professional training that cuts across categories.