the school was formed following the recommendations of the royal commission on medical education (1965–68) (which issued its report, popularly known as the "todd report" in 1968). the commission estimated that by 1994 the uk would need to train more than 4500 doctors a year, and 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. it recommended the creation of new medical schools at the universities of nottingham, southampton and leicester.