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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Storm Newton

Doctors ‘have no clear career path’ amid rise in competition for training posts

Some 10,607 resident doctors in England have joined medical specialty training programmes starting from August (Alamy/PA) -

Doctors have called for an “urgent expansion” in medical training places in England after new NHS figures revealed increased competition for certain posts in 2025.

The data sends a “deeply worrying message to the next generation of doctors”, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) said.

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