Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:44 pm on 24 January 2017.
Well, our £43 million primary care fund is supporting that, with the emphasis on new and improved ways of delivering services. That involves delivering services, and developing the services of nurses and pharmacists, physiotherapists, and social workers, to work alongside GPs. The answer lies not simply in increasing the number of GPs; it lies in ensuring that there are sufficient professionals available in a particular setting—we see it, for example, in Prestatyn—so that people can be referred to the appropriate professional, rather than piling all the pressure onto GPs, when people could go somewhere else.