Member

We need to recognise the problem here. There is no question but that the last Government, as noble Lords will know, wasted years trying to develop a workforce plan. They eventually came up with a proposal to increase the number of medical training places, but it was not fully funded for the long term. Hence we had more medical training places, but the number of specialty training places did not keep pace with the number of medical undergraduate training places. So we have this ludicrous situation of UK-trained medical graduates funded by the state not being able to get a post for specialty training.