PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Junior Doctors: Training (15 March 2016)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the reasons for trends in the number of junior doctors electing not to finish their postgraduate training in the UK; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Fabian Hamilton (Labour)

The General Medical Council report, “Interactive reports to investigate factors that affect progression of doctors in training”, shows that for 7,423 Foundation Year 2 (F2) doctors who completed foundation training in 2012, the first cohort the General Medical Council began collecting data on:

- 65.8% of these doctors took up a specialty or general practitioner training place immediately after completing foundation training;

- a further 16.6% took up a training place the following year; and

- 92.5% were in further medical training or working as doctors in the United Kingdom within two and a half years of completing F2.

A copy of the report is attached and it can also be found at:

http://www.gmc-uk.org/Briefing_note___Exams_and_recruitment_outcome_reports.pdf_60060997.pdf_60086828.pdf

Answered by:
Ben Gummer (Conservative)
23 March 2016