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DH announces 1,500 extra medical education places
The Department of Health (DH) has expanded medical education to train up 1,500 extra doctors each year, to increase the home-grown medical workforce by 25 per cent.
Currently more than 6,000 university training places are available each year for prospective new doctors. According to DH, it costs £230,000 to train a doctor in England and proposals set out in a consultation launched today (14 March 2017) include plans to obtain a return on this investment.
The proposals include newly trained medics serving a minimum term with the NHS, with those who leave before this time is up having to repay some of the fees that the NHS invests in them.
A similar system is already used by the armed forces, which operates a ‘return of service’ programme for certain professions. The consultation asks whether people think a similar system should be introduced to the NHS for doctor training courses and, if so, how long this minimum term of service should be.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: “We want our NHS to be the safest healthcare system in the world, being driven by talented doctors in the future just as it is now.
“By expanding our supply of home-grown doctors and proposing that they serve patients in the NHS for a minimum term, we will ensure taxpayer investment in the NHS is returned.
“While we are proud of our workforce, for too long the NHS has relied too heavily upon locum and agency doctors, and superb staff from overseas – all the while budding medics in England are turned away from medical school due to a lack of training places.”
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