Lobby group seeks more medicine places for school leavers

THE Government must work to increase the number of medicine places available to school leavers, a campaign group has urged.

Health Minister Mary Harney announced in November that 70 additional places, on top of the 308 available each year, would be open to Irish and EU students next autumn.

However, it is unclear how many of these will be accessible to Leaving Certificate students applying through the CAO, for which students must fill in their course choices by February 1.