Barbara Keeley – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Barbara Keeley on 2015-10-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to paragraph 6.34 of his Department’s Health Education England mandate: April 2015 to March 2016, published on 12 March 2015, what progress Health Education England has made on ensuring that a minimum of 3,250 trainees per year are recruited to GP training programmes in England by 2016.

Ben Gummer

Health Education England, NHS England, The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the British Medical Association published Building the Workforce in January 2015, which sets out plans for increasing the GP workforce, backed by £10 million worth of funding. This includes actions to boost recruitment, encourage experienced GPs to stay in the workforce and support experienced GPs to return to practice after a period of time out of the workforce.