Funded places at Worcester's new medical school were discussed on today's Good Morning Britain.

Liz Kendall, Labour's shadow work and pensions secretary, appeared on ITV's morning show to discuss GP appointments.

Host Martin Lewis turned attentions to funded places at medical schools, asking if Labour plans to lift the current cap.

Kendall said Lewis was right to raise the point, adding: "Worcester medical school was set up precisely to deal with this problem of not enough doctors in the system.

"They were told they couldn't have any funding to train students in this country, so they had to rely on students from abroad.

"We do want to see a doubling of those medical school places - but that will take time."

The University of Worcester's Three Counties Medical School was assigned the biggest allocation of funded places in the Midlands in May, with 62 awarded for the academic year starting September 2025.

It is just an additional 12 places compared to the 50 made available to the university in September 2024.

Responding in May, the university's vice chancellor and chief executive, Professor David Green CBE DL, said: "While we are delighted to have been awarded the most additional places in the Midlands, we are very disappointed that the overall allocations for 2025 are so small."