Medical education bodies to cut training after last minute change to funding allocation

Abstract

Medical education organisations are planning to make cuts to their training and workforce plans for 2013-14, after a last minute change to the funding allocation formula left many boards millions of pounds short. Continuing professional development, workforce planning, and expansion of general practitioner posts could all be hit in the regions where education boards had the biggest unplanned drops in funding. The organisations that took control of medical education and training in England this April—previously known as local education and training boards (LETBs) but now simply known as committees of Health Education England—were given draft funding allocations in January 2013. However, a decision in March by Health Education England to change the funding allocation formula has meant that five boards are receiving millions of pounds less for 2013-14 than …