The editorial by Lawson and Kumar1 on the lack of progress in implementing the recommendations of the 2016 Wass report is timely and welcome.2 We would like to highlight the response in Scotland. In early 2018, Scottish Government Health Workforce Directorate established a short-life working group on increasing undergraduate medical education in primary care. The membership comprised senior civil servants from Health Workforce, Primary Care and Health and Care Analysis, NHS Education Scotland, Scottish Funding Council, Undergraduate Deans, RCGP Scotland, Scottish GPs’ Committee of the BMA, NHS Scotland Health Boards, medical students, and all GP Heads of Teaching (HoT) or equivalent in Scottish medical schools. This group was supported by an NHS Education Scotland group examining Additional Cost of Teaching (ACT) in primary care in Scotland.
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