According to a consultant interviewed for The Guardian, many places for next year have gone to potential medics who’d deferred entry because of the pandemic
I'm John Warburton asking if there could there be an “NHS disaster in ten years”, because there aren’t enough medical school places for trainee doctors? According to a consultant interviewed for The Guardian, many places for next year have gone to potential medics who’d deferred entry because of the pandemic. But that’s left students taking A-levels THIS year out in the cold, as a government cap on medical school numbers stays in place. For its part, the Department for Education argues that it’s not increasing the intake to ensure students get a “high standard of teaching.” For more care related stories stay with us here at Care Radio.