Plans to train an additional 17,000 doctors by 2035, by doubling medical school places in the UK, were set to be backed by Labour today.
The bold policy, which will increase medical school places to 15,000 a year by 2029, was expected to be endorsed by shadow health secretary Wes Streeting at a Policy Exchange event in London on 16 December.
Speaking at the launch of a report by the centre-right thinktank – co-authored by Iain Mansfield, formerly an adviser to three Tory education ministers, along with Sean Phillips, Policy Exchange’s head of health and social care – Mr Streeting was expected to support the roadmap that promises to create an additional 45,000 doctors by 2040 at a cost of about £1.2 billion over the five years to 2029.
