Question follow-through · 48073
Doctors: Employment
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason graduates of UK medical schools are being given placeholder positions with four to eight weeks’ notice to move to new roles.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 1 May 2025
- Answer
- 1 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason graduates of UK medical schools are being given placeholder positions with four to eight weeks’ notice to move to new roles.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
1 May 2025
Answer published
Some United Kingdom foundation programme applicants, including some final year UK medical students, have been assigned a placeholder in their allocated foundation school while their foundation posts can be confirmed. The process of confirming posts can ta...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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