{"id":406711,"date":"2026-02-04T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406711\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:34:10","slug":"black-country-medical-school-announces-university-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/406711\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Country Medical School announces university partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plans for the school were announced <\/a>in 2024 after the Conservative government announced the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This aimed to double the availability of medical school places to 15,000 a year in England within five to six years.<\/p>\n

The university has teamed up with the Black Country Integrated Care Board (ICB) and the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust to help create the school.<\/p>\n

It will “play a vital role in addressing regional and national healthcare workforce needs, delivering sector-leading medical education at the heart of the Black Country” , the university said.<\/p>\n

Medical students graduating at Aston are awarded Aston University degrees and the nursing programme is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and launched in 2023.<\/p>\n

Professor Aleks Subic, vic- chancellor and CEO of Aston University, said they were proud to support the new school and were jointly investing in the future of healthcare.<\/p>\n

“This partnership reflects our shared commitment to widening access to high-quality medical education and addressing the urgent need for more doctors across our region and the country. <\/p>\n

“Aston Medical School will bring its expertise in curriculum design, innovation and quality assurance to help ensure the new school is built on strong academic foundations.”<\/p>\n

Recruitment of the first student cohort is planned, subject to GMC approval, for courses scheduled to begin in 2027, the university said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for the school were announced in 2024 after the Conservative government announced the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-406711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}