I wouldn’t quite agree with your reference to GPs as being gatekeepers. GPs are much more than gatekeepers to other parts of our healthcare system and service. What we are progressively doing with our partners in both the Royal College of General Practitioners and in the BMA is we’re looking to develop an agreed agenda on having a broader multidisciplinary team, of which GPs are essential leaders for primary care. I’m genuinely encouraged by the work being done in primary care clusters. And it’s fair to say—and I think I’ve said this before—that a range of GPs were relatively cynical about clusters when they were introduced, whether it would be an exercise in bureaucracy rather than service development and improvement, to help them deal with the very real pressures that they face. But there’s been a real buy-in into clusters, and GPs themselves can see how services are being developed and delivered with them in a leadership position to improve the quality of care they’re providing, but also to do something about the workforce pressures that they themselves face.

So, we’ll continue to deliver investment to support our aims and objectives of making sure primary care really is the continuing engine of the NHS here in Wales and we’ll continue to respect doctors and to have a genuine conversation with them and other healthcare professionals. I’ll have more to say in the rest of this year about recruitment and a range of other issues as well.