Five new medical schools to open

This comment by the head of Health Education England is in response to the announcement yesterday that five new medical schools are opening their doors to student doctors starting this September - in Sunderland, Lancashire, Canterbury, Lincoln and Chelmsford.

One of the key factors in keeping our hospital services open in Cumbria is the medical staff to run them, so the fact that Britain is finally addressing the need to train more doctors, after decades of neglect of this problem under governments in which all the major parties have taken part, is really excellent news.