Whether it will instigate a training programme for GPs with special interests as part of the service redesign recommended in the report by …

Postgraduate medical training in the UK is under review as part of the Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) training reforms. New frameworks for progressive specialty training, including those for general practice, are being developed across the UK administrations in partnership with the NHS, the BMA, the relevant statutory authorities and with our Medical Royal Colleges.
As MMC is taken forward and the new strategic framework for general practice training is developed, further work will be undertaken through the Scottish MMC Delivery Group to evaluate the detailed delivery arrangements required to ensure that our general practitioners are trained to meet the needs of NHSScotland and are able to acquire special interests appropriate to the particular health care needs of their patients.