§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the total cost(a) to his Department and (b) in total of training a medical student for one year for (i) pre-clinical training and (ii) clinical training; and if he will make a statement.[126063]
§ Mr. DenhamThe Department meets the additional costs to hospitals and general practices of supporting the clinical training of medical students from the Service Increment for Teaching (SIFT) levy. In 2000–01 the average SIFT cost per student for each of the three years of clinical training is £46,157 in London and £37,202 outside London. In allocating funding to universities, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) assumes a total resource of £5,462 per year for each full-time equivalent student studying pre-clinical medicine and £12,290 per year for each full-time equivalent student studying clinical medicine. The HEFCE's assumptions on total resource include the statutory £1,050 full-time undergraduate fee which is usually paid by the student, but may be paid by the local education authority after means-testing.
§ Mr. HarveyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many medical students entered NHS employment and what was the cost to his Department of training those students, in the last year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement.[126062]
§ Mr. DenhamData on the number of students taking up employment in the National Health Service are not held centrally. However, for the year ending July 1999, the latest date for which figures are available, 3,097 students graduated from English medical schools. In 1999–2000 the Department of Health made funding available to support approximately 3,400 newly qualified doctors at a cost of £74.5 million through the medical and dental education levy.