<p>Shortage of Doctors in North Wales </p>

Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:14 pm on 27 September 2016.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:14, 27 September 2016

He will know—he’s seen it himself—how it works. The reality is that we saw in Prestatyn GP practices—two of them, if I remember rightly—close. But, the local health board took over the provision of primary care services, and the services are better and are certainly wider than what was available before. So, it does show that the contractor model is not always the best model for delivering medical services. For some, that’s what they’ll want; for more GPs, increasingly, it seems to me, the contractor model is less attractive to them. What we’ve seen so far in Prestatyn has been excellent in terms of the width and the depth of the service that’s been provided and, of course, the local health board will continue to evaluate what’s been done there in order to make sure that it’s a model that can be adopted, potentially, around Wales.