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Resident Doctors: Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to prioritise UK medical school graduates for foundation year one posts.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 17 Jun 2025
Target answer date: 19 Jun 2025
Answer: 26 Jun 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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17 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to prioritise UK medical school graduates for foundation year one posts.
19 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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26 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Government is committed to developing homegrown talent and to giving opportunities to more people across the country to join our National Health Service.At the same time, we will always welcome internationally educated staff, who remain an important p...

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