Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:14 pm on 25 January 2017.
I’ve seen in my own area of south-east Wales in several Valleys communities that the Aneurin Bevan Local Health Board has used direct employment of GPs to improve availability and to attract people to those areas, potentially for a few years rather than for their whole careers. Is this something that the health Secretary sees as to be deployed on a sort of case-by-case basis, or is it the policy of the Government to try and shift provision over time and increase the proportion of directly-employed GPs compared to independent practitioners?