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Katrine Bussey

Forbes wants to ‘scale up’ medical student numbers if she becomes first minister

Would-be first minister Kate Forbes has pledged to increase the number of university places north of the border for Scots to study medicine, if she is chosen to succeed Nicola Sturgeon.

The current Scottish Finance Secretary said she would seek to have a conversation with the country’s five medical schools “with the aim of increasing the number of spaces for Scottish-based medical students at our universities”.

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