'Ring-fence billions for junior doctor training' - The Telegraph 8th January 2008

Billions of pounds for junior doctors' training should be taken out of the NHS and given to a new medical education body, an independent inquiry will conclude. The inquiry into the junior doctor recruitment crisis will recommend moving at least £2.6 billion to a body called NHS Medical Education for England that would oversee training and fund courses, study leave and a proportion of juniors' salaries. There are too many organisations involved in training and budgets have been raided to pay off hospital debts, according to the inquiry, led by Sir John Tooke, the dean of the Peninsula College of Medicine in Exeter.

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Department of Health ‘must be stripped of doctors’ training role’ - The Times 8th January 2008