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The government outlined plans to improve the career prospects of the domestic care workforce through training, qualifications and a clearer, care career path.

• Updated: 10 January 2024

Government will expand medical school places a year early, with 205 additional places for the new academic year in 2024, subject to consultation.

• Updated: 3 October 2023

A landmark review into health and social care leadership led by General Sir Gordon Messenger and Dame Linda Pollard has been published today.

• Updated: 8 June 2022

A new government package worth £172 million will help to train thousands more nursing degree apprentices.

• Updated: 9 August 2020

GP trainee numbers in England have risen for the third year running, with recruitment up a record 15% compared to the same point last year.

• Updated: 21 July 2020

More students will have the opportunity to apply for places on nursing, midwifery or allied health professional courses in England, following unprecedented demand.

• Updated: 29 June 2020

Students studying to become paramedics, radiographers and physiotherapists will be among those receiving the new financial support from September.

• Updated: 11 February 2020

People who are already working as healthcare professionals could train to become doctors and nurses more quickly now that the UK has left the EU.

• Updated: 9 February 2020

Fern House Surgery in Witham, Essex, becomes the latest GP surgery to be presented with a Pride in Practice Gold award.

• Updated: 22 January 2020

Today, Armley Medical Practice became the latest GP to be awarded with the Pride in Practice Award (PiP).

• Updated: 18 December 2019

All nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back.

• Updated: 18 December 2019