Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 81235

Doctors: Training

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Mr Angus MacDonald

Liberal Democrat — Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many doctors who completed foundation training (a) successfully secured a specialty training post immediately after completion, (b) remained without a specialty training post one year after com

Answer

Karin Smyth

Data published by the General Medical Council shows it is becoming more common for doctors to not progress from completion of the second year of the foundation programme directly into specialty training. The following table shows the proportion of foundat...

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