Well, I welcome the recognition that the ‘Train. Work. Live.’ campaign is a positive step forward for nursing in Wales. It’s had an incredibly positive response at the outset from the current nursing workforce, who are very proud to see themselves being highlighted and featured—the four individual named and photographed people are nurses with different career routes, and that’s been very much welcomed by the current nursing workforce. They recognise the focus of attention and, if you like, some hope for the future and a deliberately different approach here in Wales.

This Government does not support a return to a state enrolled nurse role, partly because we have spent significant time and effort working with the nursing family to develop a career path and a development path for healthcare support workers. In fact, the Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney behind you was part of the conversation in her previous role about developing that career path and development. We also see a number of healthcare support workers undertaking training from their current role into nursing, so they’re still undertaking work as well. That’s part of the flexibility we’ve provided, to make sure that that can take place so that those people who are in work with responsibilities can still carry on working whilst undertaking their nursing qualification. There is no support from representatives of the nursing workforce for us to remove the status and the requirement for nursing to be a graduate career, and I’m happy to listen to those people about how we develop the very best nursing care from the whole nursing family, and we do properly value and support the role of healthcare support workers.