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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Government aims to boost NHS with thousands more doctors and nurses

A woman in blue scrubs looks down at a bedside table in a hospital. The bed is empty but the table has various items such as food packaging on it.
Vacancies for NHS England have quadrupled since 2010 and currently stand at more than 112,000. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Thousands more doctors and nurses will be trained in England every year as part of a government push to plug the huge workforce gaps that plague almost all NHS services.

The number of places in medical schools will rise from 7,500 to 10,000 by 2028 and could reach 15,000 by 2031 as a result of the NHS’s first long-term workforce plan.

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