Part of 2. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:37 pm on 13 July 2016.
And I would urge the Ysgrifennydd to look at the real opportunities that would open up to us from following a Welsh path. Doing things differently, as we’ve seen with junior doctors, really can mean doing things better. I think it’s quite clear that Wales is going to need more doctors and more nurses, more occupational therapists, physiotherapists—you name it—over the next few decades. In fact, I doubt that there is a profession in the NHS that won’t require more staff. We’ve heard about GPs, and, if not 400, what is it? Three hundred, 200, 100—you tell us: you bring up a target that you want to aim for. But we’ve been calling for proper workforce planning for several years and still don’t have a national workforce plan. Will there be a plan that reflects on the issues that I’ve touched upon here, and when can we expect to see it?