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<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>
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