Karin Smyth corrected a written answer on Doctors: Training
Dr Danny Chambers (Liberal Democrat, Winchester) asked written question 52520 on 14 May 2025. Karin Smyth answered on 2 June 2025 for the Department of Health and Social Care, and Karin Smyth corrected the answer on 2 June 2025. The corrected text no longer gives the figures 105,336, 124,551, 127,765, 138,224, 149,296, 160,142. Altogether 386 words differ between the two versions.
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that UK trained doctors have a Speciality Training Pathway available to them after foundation year two.
Original and corrected answer
Struck through: original only. Bold: correction only.
| Original | Corrected |
|---|---|
| | 2020/2021 | | 2021/2022 | | 2022/2023 | | 2023/2024 | | 2024/2025 | | Data Source: NHSBSA Information Services Data Warehouse. Please note that care should be taken when interpreting the patient counts as some patients could appear in the results for multiple time periods and age bands. For example, a single patient could appear in the results for multiple financial years, or at both ages five and six years old within the same year. Therefore, the patient numbers should not be combined and reported at any other levels other than as provided in the dataset. | We are committed to training the staff we need to ensure that patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it. We will ensure that the number of medical specialty training places meets the demands of the National Health Service in the future. NHS England will work with stakeholders to ensure that any growth is sustainable and focused in the service areas where need is greatest. Speciality training positions are advertised nationally, and the process is administered by a lead deanery on behalf of the four nations of the United Kingdom. There is no obligation on NHS providers to advertise residency positions for British nationals before foreign nationals, or to hire British residents before overseas residents. The rules and criteria for recruitment into specialty training are agreed by the Medical and Dental Recruitment and Selection committees on behalf of the four statutory education bodies of the UK and must meet standards required by the General Medical Council. Working with NHS England, we continue to keep the selection process for all applicants to medical speciality training under review. Internationally educated staff remain an important part of the workforce, and our Code of Practice for International Recruitment ensures stringent ethical standards when recruiting health and social care staff from overseas. However, the Government is also committed to growing homegrown talent and giving opportunities to more people across the country to join the NHS. | | | | | | | | | | | | |
The question and answer on the Parliament website.
More on Karin Smyth.
Receipt
| Read from | https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1803076?expandMember=true |
|---|---|
| Date read | 15 October 2026 |
| SHA-256 | cee0a623c67aa301f6a2f2def07ef76e88caf1459948f2557bea2834ee52e904 |