Pears Cumbria School of Medicine

[1] It was launched in November 2023[1] and will admit its initial cohort of 58 graduate-entry medical students in August 2025.

[4][5][6] The school aims to "produce doctors committed to delivering cutting-edge healthcare approaches and serve the needs of their local community", and to improve health in Cumbria and north west England.

It also commits to encouraging local people to consider a career in medicine and widening access to medical education.

[9][10] First announced in April 2022,[11] the medical school was cited in the 2023 National Health Service Long Term Workforce Plan as a "good example" of addressing geographical inequality by "focusing new medical schools and additional places in geographical areas with the greatest staff shortfalls and unmet healthcare need".

[13] The medical school will be based at the University of Cumbria's Fusehill Street Campus in Carlisle.