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1134881

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date	26/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Doctors: Migrant Workers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the recruitment of doctors from overseas through the Medical Training Initiative.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	269778
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <p>The Medical Training Initiative enables up to 1,000 international medical and dental graduates per year to enter the United Kingdom to experience training and development in the National Health Service for up to two years before returning to their home country. The Government keeps the number of doctors able to participate in this scheme under regular review.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 04/07/2019 14:16:56 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

1134882

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	NHS: Staff
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the speciality staff workforce in the NHS (a) throughout the UK and (b) in regions with high vacancy rates.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	269779
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <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> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 269780 question first answered 04/07/2019 14:08:26 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

1134883

registered interest
date	26/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Medicine: Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to increase the number of medical school places to help create a sustainable workforce.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	269780
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/07/2019 answer text <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> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond grouped question UIN 269779 question first answered 04/07/2019 14:08:26 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

1133559

registered interest
date	20/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Doctors: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the findings on recruitment of the Royal College of Physicians annual census Focus on physicians: 2017–18 census (UK consultants and higher specialty trainees).
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	267243
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The Royal College of Physicians’ report ‘Focus on physicians: census of consultant physicians and higher specialty trainees 2017-18’ is a valuable source of information for medical workforce planning in England. The NHS Long Term Plan and the subsequent 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. They were developed on the basis of the advice and experience of stakeholders including the Royal College of Physicians. Since the report was published in June 2018 action has been taken to address some of the findings of the report.</p><p>The Government has already committed to funding for universities to offer an extra 1,500 undergraduate medical school places opening five new medical schools across England in the process. The interim NHS People Plan sets out that we will review 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.</p><p>The NHS Long Term Plan included the commitment to exploring the potential to expand the Medical Training Initiative so that more medical trainees from developed and developing countries can spend time working and learning in the National Health Service. The Plan also commits to a national programme board, which will be established to address geographic and specialty shortages in doctors, including developing new staffing models for rural and coastal hospitals and planning for the distribution of the increased medical graduates entering the NHS from 2022/23.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/06/2019 13:06:25 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin

1133358

registered interest
date	19/06/2019
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Doctors: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that an adequate number of doctors are trained to meet future needs.
tabling member constituency	Bedford
tabling member printed	Mohammad Yasin
uin	266890
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2019 answer text <p>The interim NHS People Plan sets 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.</p><p>The Government has already committed to having 5,000 additional doctors in general practice, and to funding for universities to offer an extra 1,500 undergraduate medical school places. The first 630 places were taken up in September 2018 and the remaining additional places will have been made available by 2020/21. By 2020, five new medical schools will have opened in England to help deliver the expansion.</p> answering member constituency Wimbledon answering member printed Stephen Hammond question first answered 27/06/2019 12:58:19 answering member 1585 label Biography information for Stephen Hammond
tabling member	4598 label Biography information for Mohammad Yasin