The New Zealand government will go ahead with plans to set up a third medical school, and wants universities to submit tenders to run the rural training centre.
Announcing the decision on 28 August, tertiary education minister Paul Goldsmith said the new medical school will “be operating no later than 2020”.
He said it will be “specifically geared” to meet a shortage of doctors and health services in rural NZ and will produce around 60 medical graduates each year.
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