Current status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage universities to increase the number of Scotland-domiciled medicine undergraduates.
We are building a sustainable medical workforce for the future. We welcome students from Scotland, the rest of the UK and EU who want to study and work in NHS Scotland and are taking a number of actions to encourage this. To increase supply and widen access we are investing £23 million in an education package which includes an increase of 50 medical undergraduate places from 2016-17, the establishment of Scotland’s first graduate medical entry programme and a pre-medical entry programme.