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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

UNCOVERED: Nhs england to review cutting compulsory training for doctors - The Untold Story

Staff on NHS hospital ward
The NHS review is expected to recommend an England-wide training system so that junior doctors do not have to redo the same courses when they move to another hospital. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

The amount of time doctors have to spend doing compulsory training will be cut as part of an NHS drive to improve medics’ working lives, the Guardian can reveal.

Concern that doctors have too heavy a burden of mandatory training has prompted NHS England to commission a review, which it is expected to announce imminently.

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