Diolch, Lywydd. I have to say I’m very encouraged to hear the Minister’s response to the motion that we’ve tabled today. I think it’s good that the Welsh Government is at least recognising now that the workforce planning of the past, and the way in which the workforce planning has been undertaken, has been inadequate and that there is a need to engage more widely with the stakeholders that are out there that are willing to engage and want to contribute to make Wales a place in which clinicians and other professionals that want to work in the health field want to come to, and actually work in our NHS here.

I was also pleased, I have to say, during First Minister’s questions yesterday, that the First Minister recognised the importance of selling Wales to the wider family and not just the clinicians themselves, as part of that international recruitment exercise that the Welsh Government is about to embark upon. So, a very encouraging start indeed, and I do hope that further work is done to ensure that everybody can work together in order to deliver what we all know we need, which is a workforce that is fit for the twenty-first century NHS that we all want.

I was pleased also to hear the recognition that we don’t just need to increase the capacity of the existing workforce, but that we also need to deal with demands—sometimes unrealistic demands—that are being placed upon the workforce and the NHS by patients. I have to say that we’ve been big supporters of the Welsh Government’s prudent healthcare agenda, and we will continue to be, and I would very much hope, and it certainly sounds like it, that the Welsh Government is getting onto our page in terms of patients accepting more responsibility themselves for the way in which they use the NHS and the resources of the NHS. I was pleased to hear a number of speakers during the debate make reference to the importance of public health and, indeed, the social care system and the way that that can also help to prevent unnecessary demand being pushed on to the doorstep of the national health service.

The Minister didn’t respond in this debate to the amendment that had been tabled specifically by Plaid Cymru. I know he said that he would be supporting it. But nor did he respond to the need to establish a medical school in north Wales. Whilst I know that there’s been some ongoing work, shall we say, looking at the feasibility of the establishment of a medical school up there, I think it is extremely important that we make sure that there are training rotations in north Wales that will attract people to work in that area in the future. I wonder, Minister—there’s a little bit of time left—whether you might be able to give us an update on any work that is being done to develop training rotations between the north-west of England and north Wales as well, which traditionally has helped to ensure that there is an adequate supply of GPs and other medical professionals in that region.

Are you able to provide any sort of update? If you’re not, I appreciate that we’re out of time. Perhaps he could write to Members just to give us some confidence that that is actually going to take place, given the previous Minister’s commitments in the past. Thank you.