Funding of medical education: the need for transparency

Editor – In their reply to Dacre and Walsh's piece on medical education Pereira Gray and Harding (Clin Med April 2014 pp 212) could have gone further. Were the providers of clinical attachments – whether hospitals or general practices – to tender competitively for contracts to take students it is our belief that, not only would the price charged more accurately reflect the cost of providing the teaching, but innovation in the way that teaching was provided would flourish too.