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Hospital specialist training places should be radically cut back to make way for a rapid expansion in GP recruits, recommends a major report into how to boost GP numbers commissioned by ministers.
The ‘GP taskforce’ report recommends that GP training numbers are increased alongside a ‘concomitant reduction in hospital specialty places’ and suggests 2,025 hospital training places could be decommissioned to achieve this aim.
The report commissioned by the Department of Health and written by GP education leaders looks at ways of boosting the numbers of GP postgraduate training places to 50% of all places by 2015 - since postponed to 2016 - or 3,250 GPs entering training every year.
It says there is a need to ‘redress the imbalance’ between hospital doctors and GPs and calls for a review of current targets to see if they training would be enough to meet workforce needs. It also questioned whether Health Education England would be able to meet the current target of 3,250 GPs, mandated by the DH.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20007332.article#.U8-I7_ldWAg
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The ‘GP taskforce’ report recommends that GP training numbers are increased alongside a ‘concomitant reduction in hospital specialty places’ and suggests 2,025 hospital training places could be decommissioned to achieve this aim.
The report commissioned by the Department of Health and written by GP education leaders looks at ways of boosting the numbers of GP postgraduate training places to 50% of all places by 2015 - since postponed to 2016 - or 3,250 GPs entering training every year.
It says there is a need to ‘redress the imbalance’ between hospital doctors and GPs and calls for a review of current targets to see if they training would be enough to meet workforce needs. It also questioned whether Health Education England would be able to meet the current target of 3,250 GPs, mandated by the DH.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/20007332.article#.U8-I7_ldWAg
(free registration required)