Jeremy Hunt has been saying that the Conservatives have increased the number of medical students that will be trained for the NHS. I think that it is only fair to give the Conservatives credit for that. However, he appears to have forgotten that the number of doctors being trained at medical school was cut by the Conservatives. Needless to say, this is frustrating especially as so many people who, like me care for the NHS and have concerns at the direction it is being steered in by him, are unaware of this.
During the years of a Labour government new medical schools were opened,
one where I used to help teach medical students. To see this cut was heartbreaking, and worse, the NHS has yet to feel the full effects of this, as well as having to deal with the brain drain
as doctors continue to leave the UK for more money and less work abroad.
