<p>Priorities for the NHS</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:08 pm on 14 June 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:08, 14 June 2016

(Translated)

The Member is right to say that medicine and nursing is a global market; people travel the world with the qualifications that they have, and, of course, there are a number of nurses and doctors working in the NHS in Wales who come from other European Union countries or outwith the European Union, for example, the nurses in the hospital in Bridgend who come from the Philippines, very many of them. Without those people, we wouldn’t have a health service in Wales, nor in the rest of the United Kingdom either. So, it’s extremely important that no obstacles are placed in their way to stop them from coming to Wales or the rest of the United Kingdom, because it will the patients that will suffer.