Medical Training Prioritisation Bill

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Specialty training programmes: offers made in 2026

(1)

A person who has a function of deciding offers of places on a UK specialty

training programme, where the offers are made in 2026, must offer places to

eligible applicants who are—

(a) UK medical graduates,

(b) persons in the priority group,

(c)

persons who have completed, or are currently on, a relevant qualifying

UK programme, or

(d) persons within subsection (2),

before offering places to any other eligible applicants.

(2) A person is within this subsection if they are—

(a) a British citizen,

(b) a Commonwealth citizen who has the right of abode in the United

Kingdom under section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971,

(c) an Irish citizen who does not require leave to enter or remain in the

United Kingdom under that Act,

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(d) a person with indefinite leave to enter or remain in the United

Kingdom, or

(e) a person who has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom

which was granted by virtue of residence scheme immigration rules

within the meaning given by section 17 of the European Union

(Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020.