<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:32 pm on 13 July 2016.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:32, 13 July 2016

I thank the Member for her second question. This is one of our challenges: how do we retain professionals within the workforce? Some of this is about making it easier to stay on different terms, some of it is about making it easier to return to the workforce as well. So, that’s part of the work that is already ongoing with stakeholders, in particular the British Medical Association’s GP committee, and also the Royal College of General Practitioners. But it’s also part of understanding that we need to have a broader primary care team, because, to take workload away from GPs, we need to send them to an appropriate extra place. That’s why advanced nurse practitioners, pharmacists—both clinical pharmacists and community pharmacy—as well as the therapists, like physiotherapists, are part of the answer. So, GPs do what they should do, and we transfer other people who don’t need to see a GP but have a healthcare need to be met in primary care, and have the appropriate professionals to go to for that advice, support and treatment.