Funding nhs support for leaching

Abstract

Classroom teaching of medical undergraduates is supported by a range of activities which take place on NHS sites. The teaching hospitals that host these activities receive a subsidy to compensate for the burden placed on their resources. In addition, there is an informal trading of time between NHS-employed and university-employed staff. The imprecision of these two mechanisms will affect the costs incurred by teaching hospitals, and, therefore, the prices they charge for their services-this has implications for their position as competitors in the NHS internal market. Show more