 The school was formed following the recommendations of the "Royal Commission on Medical Education (1965-68)"; their report, popularly known as the "Todd Report", was issued in 1968.The Commission estimated that by 1994, the United Kingdom would need to train more than 4500 doctors a year and was of the opinion that this would need to be achieved by both increasing the numbers of medical students at existing medical schools, and by establishing a number of new medical schools.The report recommended that new medical schools should be immediately established at the Universities of Nottingham, Leicester and Southampton.