Speeches

Norman Lamb – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Norman Lamb on 2016-02-02.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the application-to-place ratio prior to interview is for ST1/CT1 posts starting in August to December 2016 at each specialities national recruitment office.

Ben Gummer

Health Education England (HEE) is responsible for the management of medical specialty recruitment on behalf of the four United Kingdom countries.

The information requested for 2016 is not yet available.

HEE publishes application to place ratios in October on an annual basis. The August to December 2016 data will be published in October 2016.

Competition ratios for 2015 can be found here:

http://specialtytraining.hee.nhs.uk/specialty-recruitment/competition-ratios/2015-competition-ratios/

To note: The data used to determine the competition ratios for is drawn from the initial recruitment round and does not include re-advertisements.