I welcome the points made in the statement by the Cabinet Secretary, and I think they will certainly help the situation. During the recess, I visited North Cardiff Medical Centre, and was very impressed with the efforts that they were making there to try to treat the whole patient to try to avoid unnecessary medical treatment and try to avoid admission to hospital. I was also very impressed by their efforts to work very closely with other medical professionals and to work in a way that is reaching out to the community. I’m sure the Cabinet Secretary would agree that all these things are essential in a successful GP practice. One of the points they did bring up with me, which I also raised last week, was the concern they have about the huge growth of population that is likely in Cardiff. I know that there are difficulties in providing GPs in rural areas, for example, and possibly, perhaps, in Cardiff now, but they are very worried about what will happen in the future. So, I wonder if the Cabinet Secretary had any views on that.

The second point—there’s been quite a lot of discussion about training and medical training here today. Would he agree that it’s essential that the medical curriculum does address hands-on training and makes the students aware of the actual jobs that they will do when they do actually enter employment? I know that the new curriculum at Cardiff medical school does offer now a lot more hands-on experience for the students and they believe that the breadth of experience that’s being offered to them in that training has resulted, this year, in 55 per cent who have chosen to stay in Wales for their first foundation post, which they see as an achievement. Certainly, some of those people will end up as being GPs. So, I’m sure the Cabinet Secretary would agree that the content is vital in making the students aware of what can be achieved by being a GP. I think in the Cabinet Secretary’s statement or in his response to questions he did say that the job is perhaps not seen as an attractive job and I think that it’s really important that as much is done as possible to show the opportunities that can be there through general practice.

I was very interested in the North Cardiff Medical Centre telling me about a visit that they’d made, along with other officials—I think possibly the Welsh Government officials went too—to Bromley by Bow Centre in east London, which is quite a famous centre, where the GP practice is situated in a community hub where there’s a community café, and where there are lots of health and well-being issues. It’s there to address the needs of the whole community and I think that is the point that the Cabinet Secretary has been making in his responses today. So, would he agree that that sort of development would help to make potential GPs see the value of being a GP and being able to work in the holistic way that some practices are trying to do?