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The UK’s expansion of medical training is on life support
With the NHS desperate for more capacity, increasing the number of doctors entering the system seems an obvious remedy. But with the system lacking the resources to boost training places or offer...
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Industry-focused strategy ‘an assault on Irish research system’
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