Abstract
A report commissioned by the government has recommended reducing intake into medical school by 2% in England, starting with the 2013 intake, to improve matching of medical workforce supply and demand from 2025. Effective planning of medical student numbers would make sure that money was not wasted through training more doctors than the NHS needed, some of whom could be forced to work abroad, said the health minister Dan Poulter. The Health and Education National Strategic Exchange (HENSE) was commissioned in 2011 to review whether the current levels of medical and dental student intakes were in line with predicted workforce requirements. Its baseline forecasts estimated that the …
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