Scotland will have its biggest ever rise in medical training places next year

Next year will see the biggest ever rise in medical training places in Scotland, its government has announced, with an extra 152 medical training places for trainee doctors in 2023—surpassing the previous record rise of 139 extra places in 2022.The Scottish government is providing £37m over the next four years to fund the places. But, while welcoming the additional places, BMA Scotland said that this expansion alone would not fully tackle the challenges facing the workforce.Next year’s rise will equate to a 2.5% increase in the current whole time equivalent (WTE) workforce of 6100 trainees. Trainee doctors make up 42% of doctors employed by health boards in Scotland. Since 2014, 573 additional training places have been created in Scotland.Chris Smith, chair of the BMA’s Scottish Junior Doctors Committee, said, “The relative scale of these increases, compared to the challenges the workforce faces, risks these junior doctors being used to simply…
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