Radical solutions are needed to meet the challenge of medical student placement capacity in primary care

Despite all efforts to increase capacity, UK medical schools are facing genuine difficulty in recruiting sufficient GP practices to provide essential clinical placements for their medical students. In order to meet current demand, let alone the planned doubling of medical student numbers by 2031/2032,1 a radical solution is required. We believe that the only way to accommodate the recently proposed increase in medical student numbers is to make teaching medical undergraduates a mandatory requirement for all NHS general practices.