Accommodation For First Year Junior Doctors

EDM number 1619 in 2007-08, proposed by Stephen Williams on 20/05/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Employment, Health staff and professions and Housing.

That this House notes with concern the Government's proposed removal of free hospital accommodation for new first year junior doctors from August 2008; further notes that medical students graduate with an average debt in excess of £20,000 and that adding almost £5,000 of accommodation costs will increase the financial burden on medical students as they enter their first year of junior doctor training; is concerned that hugely increasing levels of debt among medical students - made worse by the removal of free accommodation - will mean that medicine will become more about ability to pay than about ability to become a good doctor; believes that the decision to remove free accommodation was taken without proper consultation with junior doctors; and therefore calls on the Government to ensure that negotiations begin with the British Medical Association to reach an acceptable agreement.

This motion has been signed by a total of 110 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.