I don't really feel it does. Sure I can see the costs involved complicate things. However, doubling the cap will likely introduce some economies of scale, surely that would reduce training costs. Also capacity would grow to meet training demand; Universities are always keen for more students. Also increasing the working pool will ultimately lead to more "clinically qualified academic staff". All this might become irrelevant with technology replacing GPs/Physicians. Perhaps in 10 years time we'll be examined by robots at our local pharmacy.
> All this might become irrelevant with technology replacing GPs/Physicians. Perhaps in 10 years time we'll be examined by robots at our local pharmacy.
lolno. Aside from the fact that AI is nowhere near good enough, we can't really build robots anywhere close to the dexterity required to do many of the physical actions. Also people like having human contact.
"Economies of scale" only works well for things like manufacture, and is much more limited for many other things. It certainly doesn't reduce the cost of actually paying a yearly salary to these people, or ensuring you have enough places (hospitals) for the to work at, which isn't cheap either. There are some small advantages one can take here on there, but in general, it scales fairly linearly. This is not just me saying that, your own link, again, says that.
Training 10 junior devs really is about 10 times as much work as training 1. Maybe slightly less because you can group some things, but not too much. And training 20 junior devs is about twice as much work as training 10.
It really is just a funding issue – which is what everyone has been saying for years. Labour wants to increase spots by abolishing non-doms – we'll see if that works when they win the election.
Otherwise feel free to stand for election and propose the n% tax hike required for all of this and see how well that goes.
I highly doubt that when I come with my kid who sneezes and have fever because half of his class sneezes and heads fever, the MD wold stop and think "ha, maybe he has a brain tumor or this entroprngiforitholzmosis that I heard about 37 years ago".
Not only Computer Aided Medicine would be a god send (it could help to duagnoze the entroprything above the MD forgot about, but would also help to leave the time for people actually sick with something an MD can help with
