Dental foundation training overseas applicants

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Dear Health Education England,

Please can I get a breakdown of the number of successful applicants who applied for dental foundation training but graduated outside of the UK. I would like a breakdown of all the universities and the number of successful applicants from each university. Can I get a list from the 2017,2018 and 2019 DFT cycles.

Yours faithfully, Jon Merecow

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From: Jon Merecow <[FOI #713033 email]>
Sent: 15 December 2020 12:29
To: FOIA <[HEE request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Dental foundation training
overseas applicants

 

Dear Health Education England,

Please can I get a breakdown of the number of successful applicants who
applied for dental foundation training but graduated outside of the UK. I
would like a breakdown of all the universities and the number of
successful applicants from each university. Can I get a list from the
2017,2018 and 2019 DFT cycles.

Yours faithfully, Jon Merecow

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Dear Jon

 

We refer to your email of 15 December 2020 requesting information relating
to successful applicants to dental foundation training that graduated
outside of the UK, held by Health Education England (HEE).  

 

HEE can confirm in accordance with S.1 (1) of the Freedom of Information
Act 2000 (FOIA) that we do hold some of the information that you have
requested. 

 

Please see the tables below.

 

2019/20

 

10 applicants from overseas accepted an offer for DFT training and the
breakdown is as follows:

 

Bangalore University India 1
CEU Cardinal Herrera 1
Charles University in Prague First Faculty of
Medicine 1
Silesia University of Medicine 1
Universidad Europea de Madrid 3
Universidad Europea De Valencia 1
University of Debrecen 2
Grand Total 10

 

2018/19

 

77 applicants from overseas accepted an offer for DFT training and the
breakdown is as follows. 

 

Alfarabi Medical Colleges 1
Bahauddin Zakrya University Multan, Pakistan 1
Baqai Medical and Dental University 1
Bulgaria 1
CEU Cardenal Herrera University 2
First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague 1
Genesis Institute Of Dental Sciences and Research / Baba Farid
University Of Health Sciences 1
Indira Gandhi Institute of Dental Sciences 1
Islamic International Dental College, Islamabad 2
KHYBER COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY, 1
Modern Science and Art university, Egypt 1
Palacky University 7
Pomeranian Medical University 1
Poznan University Of Medical Sciences 1
Riphah International University 1
School of Dentistry, Nigeria 1
Semmelweis University 6
The First Faculty of Medicine Charles University 1
The Royal College of Surgeons 2
The University Of Jordan 1
Trinity College Dublin 2
Ukrainian Medical Stomatological academy  1
Universidad Cardenal Herrera CEU 3
Universidad Europa de Valencia 6
Universidad Europea de Madrid 11
University of Debrecen 11
University of Health Sciences 3
University of Karachi 1
University of Latvia, Riga, Lativa 1
university of Sulaimani / College of Dentistry 1
University of Szeged 3
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Grand Total 77

 

2017/18

 

Unfortunately we do not hold complete data for 2017/18. Unfortunately we
do not  have the universities recorded for the 2017/18 Recruitment.  

 

We can confirm that a total of 31 applicants accepted an offer from
overseas and the breakdown is as follows:

 

European Economic Area – 24

Rest of World - 7

 

 

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From: Jon Merecow <[FOI #713033 email]>
Sent: 15 December 2020 12:29
To: FOIA <[HEE request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Dental foundation training
overseas applicants

 

Dear Health Education England,

Please can I get a breakdown of the number of successful applicants who
applied for dental foundation training but graduated outside of the UK. I
would like a breakdown of all the universities and the number of
successful applicants from each university. Can I get a list from the
2017,2018 and 2019 DFT cycles.

Yours faithfully, Jon Merecow

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Dear FOIA,
Thank you for your very thorough response. In regards to your email from the 15/01/2021 I would like to know why each year the number of overseas DFT accepted applicants, are very different and not consistent. For example why are there only 10 accepted applicants in 2019/2020 as compared to 77 accepted applicants the following year. Thank again for your previous response and I hope to get another thorough response.

Yours sincerely,

Jon Merecow

Dear FOIA,
For the 2018/2019 cycle you have written Bulgaria as a university, can you confirm the specific name of the university in Bulgaria. Thank you for your response.

Yours sincerely,

Jon Merecow

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Dear Jon Merecow,

 

Thank you for your recent emails, dated 16/01/2021 and 19/01/2021, asking
for further clarification in regards to information supplied by Health
Education England as part of your earlier request for information under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) - FOI 1169.

 

I will respond to each of your queries in turn:

 

 

Your email dated 16/01/2021:

 

Q) In regards to your email from the 15/01/2021 I would like to know why
each year the number of overseas DFT accepted applicants, are very
different and not consistent. For example why are there only 10 accepted
applicants in 2019/2020 as compared to 77 accepted applicants the
following year. Thank again for your previous response and I hope to get
another thorough response.

A) This is explained in our applicant handbook which can be found by
searching for the Dental Foundation Training Vacancy on Oriel. The
variance across the years is a result of the number of appointable
applicants who can only access the NHS performers list by completing DFT
in any particular year and the number of available posts in DFT across
England, Wales and Northern Ireland. 

 

 

Your email dated 19/01/2021:

 

Q) For the 2018/2019 cycle you have written Bulgaria as a university, can
you confirm the specific name of the university in Bulgaria. Thank you for
your response.

 

A) Unfortunately HEE cannot provide any more information than what has
been provided as our reporting is pulled from a white space question (a
blank space into which you write / enter a response to a question) which
the applicants themselves have completed. Hence ‘Bulgaria’ would have been
the answer the applicant themselves had given in response to this
question.

 

 

 

We hope that this information is of use. If you are dissatisfied with the
way in which we have dealt with your request you can ask us to review our
decision by writing to:

 

Mr Lee Whitehead

Director of People and Communications

C/O PPA Team

Health Education England

Blenheim House

Duncombe Street

Leeds

LS1 4PL

 

 

 

If at the conclusion of any review you remain dissatisfied you may
complain to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at:

 

The Office of the Information Commissioner

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

 

Kind regards,

 

FOI Team 

Public & Parliamentary Accountability

 

Health Education England

Blenheim House

Duncombe Street

Leeds

LS1 4PL

 

HEE is part of the NHS, and we work with partners to plan, recruit,
educate and train the health workforce

 

[1]Hands, face, space graphic

 

 

 

From: Jon Merecow <[2][FOI #713033 email]>
Sent: 19 January 2021 07:33
To: FOIA <[3][HEE request email]>
Subject: Re: 1169 RE: Freedom of Information request - Dental foundation
training overseas applicants

 

Dear FOIA,

For the 2018/2019 cycle you have written Bulgaria as a university, can you
confirm the specific name of the university in Bulgaria. Thank you for
your response.

Yours sincerely,

Jon Merecow

From: Jon Merecow <[FOI #713033 email]>
Sent: 16 January 2021 07:12
To: FOIA <[HEE request email]>
Subject: Re: 1169 RE: Freedom of Information request - Dental foundation
training overseas applicants

 

Dear FOIA,

Thank you for your very thorough response. In regards to your email from
the 15/01/2021 I would like to know why each year the number of overseas
DFT accepted applicants, are very different and not consistent. For
example why are there only 10 accepted applicants in 2019/2020 as compared
to 77 accepted applicants the following year. Thank again for your
previous response and I hope to get another thorough response.

Yours sincerely,

Jon Merecow

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