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<p>The Government has already committed to funding for universities to offer an extra
1,500 undergraduate medical school places for domestic students. The first 630 places
were taken up in September 2018 and the remaining additional places will have been
made available by universities by 2020/21. By 2020, five new medical schools will
have opened in England to help deliver the expansion.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan
set out the need to ensure a sustainable overall balance between supply and demand
across all staff groups. For doctors, it also focussed on reducing geographical and
specialty imbalances. Subsequently, the interim NHS People Plan set out the action
we will take now and over the long term to meet the challenges of supply, reform,
culture and leadership, and changes in demand for health care. Actions include reviewing
what further expansion in undergraduate medical places will be needed, in light of
future plans made locally by sustainability and transformation partnerships and integrated
care systems; and the establishment of a national programme board to address geographic
and specialty shortages in doctors.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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