Part of 3. 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Well-being and Sport – in the Senedd at 3:12 pm on 19 July 2017.
Interestingly, I’ve had a range of conversations with people in the mid Wales collaborative, with Aberystwyth University and with Bronglais hospital, but also I attended last week the research and innovation day at Trinity college Carmarthen, which looked at a range of research and innovation activities right across the Hywel Dda health board area. There’s a very clear signal from this Government that we expect that work to continue, because there are a number of people who want to undertake activities in areas where they know they’ll have to work, effectively, in an urban area or in a city-based service, but there are lots of other people who specifically want to work in rural medicine. We need to make sure that our service doesn’t just provide the services people who live in rural communities want to undertake, but that we understand the best-quality evidence that is available about how to deliver that service safely and securely in a way that values the choices people make to live in rural communities so that they receive high-quality healthcare too.