Gale welcomes Medical School for East Kent

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March 20th 2018

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North Thanet`s MP, Sir Roger Gale, has this (Tuesday) morning welcomed the announcement of the establishment of a new medical school to be based on the the University of Kent and Christ Church College.

 

“This will create the largest expansion of the NHS workforce in history” says the MP “and I am delighted that our collective efforts is to bring one of the five new medical schools to East Kent has proved successful.

 

Christ Church vacating the Thanet campus will create the opportunity to locate part of the school in Thanet, using the training expertise available at the QEQM hospital to give students the practical experience that they will need and I would hope and expect that each of East Kent`s three major hospitals will benefit from the retention of medical staff that in turn will ease the pressure on recruitment and enhance the medical care available locally to my constituents.

 

I would like to pay particular tribute to our former colleague, Julian Brazier who, as the Member of Parliament for Canterbury, was staunch in support of the creation of a a University-based medical school.

 

Together, East Kent`s MPs have forcefully made the case for this new facility which will have the potential to attract the brightest and best of some of tomorrow`s medics to the area”

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Sir Roger Gale joined Samaritans in Parliament on 18 December to pledge that he would do everything he could  to prevent suicide in 2018.