Reduced number of GP training places advertised for 2018

[Northerner]

The number of GP specialty training places on offer across the UK in the first round of recruitment for 2018 has shrunk compared to the number offered this year, official figures suggest.

The General Practice National Recruitment Office (GPNRO) is advertising 63 fewer places for GP ST1 training in 2018 compared to the same time this year, analysis of places on offer shows.

There appear to be 70 fewer spots in England and 30 fewer in Scotland, according to figures on the GPNRO website, which prospective trainees must use to apply for posts.

This contrasts to Wales and Northern Ireland, which are respectively offering 25 and 12 more places than they did in 2017.

HEE warned that the numbers should be treated as ‘indicative’ and could be subject to change. It added that the total number of places on offer had ‘not dropped’.

http://www.gponline.com/reduced-number-gp-training-places-advertised-2018/article/1449213

Hmm...thought they were making more places available for doctors and nurses, not fewer 🙄

 

[grovesy]

I suspect it is because many of the trainers have taken early retirement and have not been replaced

 

[mikeyB]

The other hidden thing that is happening is that GP trainees are not paid direct from NHS funds. Their payment is no longer in house, it’s arranged by guess who? Capita. There are reports across England of GP trainees not being paid for months at a time. This never happened when pay was ‘in house’. Why go into a training course after qualification and hospital grounding when your payment is almost random?

I must be bloody mad moving back to England with the NHS being sold off to the cheapest bidder.

 

[trophywench]

Are you moving then Mike? - haven't 'heard' you say?

 

[mikeyB]

Info on the cafe thread, TW.