Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 109254

Resident Doctors: Assessments

Tabled: 28 January 2026

Answered: 2 March 2026

Named Day

Question

Nadia Whittome

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of a) waiving and b) subsidising the cost of the first six to eight (i) preliminary and (ii) core examinations for junior doctors.

Answer

Karin Smyth

The Department has not made a specific assessment of the potential merits of waiving or subsidising the cost of the first six to eight preliminary and/or core examinations for resident, previously “junior”, doctors.My Rt Hon. Friend, the Secretary of Stat...

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