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We are committed to the NHS, we have more doctors...

BobQ
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in Debate House Prices & the Economy
What they say........

We will provide an extra £8b for the NHS.....
he Tories will also move to show they can deliver tangible changes in the health service by announcing that pensioners aged over 75 will be given the right to same-day access to a GP and everyone will have access to a GP and the weekends and in the evenings by 2020. “By supporting the most vulnerable we can improve their lives and ease the pressures on the NHS by reducing the number of unnecessary and often distressing visits to A&E,” the chancellor writes.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/george-osborne-conservative-party-election-pledge-extra-8bn-nhs

What they do........
A medicine degree course at a UK university is not open to students from the UK - only overseas students are allowed to apply.
The medicine course at the University of Central Lancashire, launching this autumn, costs £36,500 per year.
The university says it is unable to admit UK students due to government limits on places to study medicine.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-34326453

Meanwhile we fund cheap courses on media studies
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  • Mistermeaner
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    that's labours fault that Bob
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • ToriP
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    There are reasons for that. Registered numbers of medicine graduates are guaranteed training placements.

    It costs A LOT to train medicine graduates. It would be expensive to have an excess of medicine graduates.

    Of course there are areas eg GP training where there are shortages
  • BobQ
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    ToriP wrote: »
    There are reasons for that. Registered numbers of medicine graduates are guaranteed training placements.

    It costs A LOT to train medicine graduates. It would be expensive to have an excess of medicine graduates.

    Of course there are areas eg GP training where there are shortages

    So we invite overseas doctors to fill the shortages
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
  • CLAPTON
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    why don't we train more doctors?
  • daveyjp
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    CLAPTON wrote: »
    why don't we train more doctors?

    Lack of places in teaching hospitals. There are only so many opportunities for doctors in training and every trainee doctor needs resources up and down the chain to ensure they are doing the job right.

    The Doctors we import are already trained.
  • CLAPTON
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    daveyjp wrote: »
    Lack of places in teaching hospitals. There are only so many opportunities for doctors in training and every trainee doctor needs resources up and down the chain to ensure they are doing the job right.

    The Doctors we import are already trained.



    Do you know why don't we have more places in training hospitals?
  • Mistermeaner
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    Me sir me sir

    Is it because the British medical whatsitsname limits places each year in order to keep wages inflated through limited supply?
    Left is never right but I always am.
  • kinger101
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    Mistermeaner wrote: »
    Me sir me sir

    Is it because the British medical whatsitsname limits places each year in order to keep wages inflated through limited supply?

    Well done boy. Top of the class.

    http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a748
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  • ToriP
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    Would we rather lower wages and in turn not attract the brightest?
  • CLAPTON
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    ToriP wrote: »
    Would we rather lower wages and in turn not attract the brightest?



    are there not a huge number of excellent people wanting to be doctors?


    PS the brightest become mathematics and physicists
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