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Health Professions: Education and Training

Lords · Question HL11875 · Tabled 12 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 21 Nov 2025

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Asked by Baroness Shawcross-Wolfson

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the present, and planned intake for (1) medical school places, (2) GP trainees, (3) nursing trainees, (4) nursing associate trainees, (5) midwifery trainees, (6) pharmacist trainees, and (7) dentist trainees in (a)

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Answered by Baroness Merron, 21 Nov 2025

In England, the Office for Students (OfS) sets the maximum fundable limit for medical school and dental school places on an annual basis. For the 2025/26 academic year, the OfS has published its intake target at 8,126 for medical school places and 809 for...