Health Professions: Training

(asked on 12th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps are in place to train more new doctors and nurses in the UK.


This question was answered on 26th October 2016

On 4 October 2016, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health announced that from September 2018, the Government will fund up to 1,500 additional undergraduate medical places through university medical schools each year.

In November 2015, the reforms to nursing, midwifery and allied health pre-registration training were announced. The reforms aim to increase the number of training places by up to 10,000 by the end of the Parliament.

As outlined in its Workforce Plan for England: Proposed Education and Training Commissions for 2016/17, Health Education England has increased the overall volume of education and training with, in excess of, 38,000 new training places in 2016-2017 for nurses, scientists and therapists, and there are now more than 50,000 doctors and dentists currently in training. A copy of the Plan is attached.

The latest workforce statistics published by NHS Digital for July 2016 show that since May 2010 there are now almost 23,400 additional professionally qualified staff working in National Health Service trusts and clinical commissioning groups, including more than 10,000 more doctors and 3,500 more nurses and midwives.

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