Monday 7 December 2015

Almost half of junior doctors left NHS after foundation training

Almost half of junior doctors left NHS after foundation training


Official figures reveal sharp fall in number of young medics opting to work towards becoming GP or specialist after first two years in NHS

Almost half of all junior doctors are opting not to continue their training in the NHS, threatening a “disaster” that senior medics fear will worsen the service’s shortage of frontline clinicians.

This year only 52% of junior doctors who finished the two-year foundation training after medical school chose to stay in the NHS and work towards becoming a GP or specialist – the lowest proportion in the health service’s history and down from 71.3% as recently as 2011. Guardian

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These are disturbing figures. All this is very worrying.

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