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Sep 19, 2023 · It is hoped that by 2025 the medical school will be able to train 150 students a year, but its long-term success depends on the government awarding funded places.
May 13, 2024 · The government has funded 350 additional medical school places in England for the academic year 2025 to 2026 in latest step to deliver NHS Long Term Workforce Plan.
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May 14, 2024 · Doctors have raised concerns about the future training prospects of medical students after the government announced it would fund 350 additional medical school places in England for the academic year 2025-26.
Aug 18, 2022 · England's Education Secretary James Cleverly told the BBC that you can't just "flick a switch" to increase the capacity to train more doctors. Students offered incentive to delay medical...
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Government will expand medical school places a year early, with 205 additional places for the new academic year in 2024, subject to consultation.
Students will be able to apply to new medical school places a year early as the government today (Tuesday 3 October) announced it will fund 205 additional places for students starting in 2024, accelerating a commitment in the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan published in June.
The Office for Students has begun the process of allocating these places and has offered places to new medical schools at Worcester Three Counties, Brunel and Chester, which do not currently have any publicly funded medical places, as well as offering more places to the University of Central Lancashire and Edge Hill medical schools. The location of these schools will help ensure medical school places are available where they are most needed, including training much-needed additional doctors for the North West.
This comes in advance of the larger expansion across the country from 2025 onwards that will deliver the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitment to double medical school places by 2030 to 2031.
Health and Social Care Secretary, Steve Barclay, said:
We’re turbocharging our plans to boost the number of people studying medicine at university which will lead to more doctors staffing our hospitals in the future.
Brunel and Worcester Three Counties medical schools opened in 2021 and 2023, respectively. Chester will open in 2024.
Ministers have written to the Office for Students who will now consult on the best approach to expand places.
Ministers have asked the Office for Students to focus on new medical schools approved by the General Medical Council but which do not currently receive government funding for places, and those with the smallest existing limits, specifically those with limits of fewer than 50 places.
More information on the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan can be found in our fact sheet.
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For applicants thinking of applying to medicine in October 2024 for entry in 2025, the Medical Schools Council's annual update of entry requirements for all courses is now live. This is the only resource that collates entry requirements directly from admissions staff in the medical schools.
May 17, 2024 · In the next step to deliver this commitment, the Office for Students (OfS) has now allocated 350 places in the 2025 to 2026 academic year to medical schools across the country – including Sunderland – targeted to support under-doctored areas.
