Over 200 news medical school places created in England for 2024

Medical school places in England will increase by 205 in 2024, the government has announced, subject to consultation.This follows an ambition set out in the NHS long term workforce plan to double the number of medical school training places to 15 000 by 2031,1 with the increase originally set to start in 2025.Ministers have written to the Office for Students—the independent regulator of higher education in England—asking it to consult on the best approach to expanding medical school places.The government said the OFS had already begun the process of allocating the 205 additional places for 2024. The places will be offered to new medical schools at Brunel, Chester, and Worcester Three Counties, which do not currently have any publicly funded medical places, as well as the University of Central Lancashire and Edge Hill medical schools. The government said that the location of the five schools would “help to ensure places…
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