Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 2:35 pm on 21 June 2017.
I certainly welcome any signals—and there are positive signals—in terms of an improvement in the number of those choosing to come to work in Wales, and an increase in the number of those choosing to train as GPs, and the financial incentive can play a part in that. But developing expertise and having the support to develop expertise is also something that appeals to junior doctors. And knowing that our rural areas are facing a very real challenge in recruitment, does the Minister agree with me that there is real scope to use a new medical school in Bangor as a centre to develop expertise, which could become global in its significance in rural medicine specifically, in the primary and secondary sectors, and that that as an aim should be a reason to move quickly towards establishing medical education in Bangor?