<p>Questions Without Notice from Party Spokespeople</p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:33 pm on 21 June 2017.

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Photo of Rhun ap Iorwerth Rhun ap Iorwerth Plaid Cymru 2:33, 21 June 2017

(Translated)

And certainly, I will contact you, as I contacted your predecessor, who also gave me some warm words as you have done. But, unfortunately, it’s clear that there is a problem still facing us.

I will move to the challenge of attracting doctors from England. Now, doctors registered in Wales can’t work in Wales until they’ve been registered, as you know, on the Welsh performers list. There’s a similar register in England. The BMA notes that difficulties in transferring information between the two registers, and the complexities of registering on the Welsh list, make it very difficult to attract locums here specifically. And, in 2015, the BMA recommended that the Welsh Government and the UK Government needed to work together to facilitate that sharing of information between the two registers. So, what steps has the Minister taken since then to make it easier to register doctors from England to work in Wales, something which is crucial, of course, to go alongside any recruitment campaign?