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Health Professions: Training

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of qualified medical professionals unable to progress in their training pathways in the most recent period for which figures are available.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
7 May 2025
Target answer date
12 May 2025
Answer
16 May 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an estimate of the number of qualified medical professionals unable to progress in their training pathways in the most recent period for which figures are available.

  2. 12 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 16 May 2025

    Answer published

    We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it. It is not possible, from the data held, to consistently and accurately identify unique applicants, as many applicants w...

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