<p>Nurse Recruitment in North Wales</p>

Part of 2. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:19 pm on 3 October 2017.

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Photo of Carwyn Jones Carwyn Jones Labour 2:19, 3 October 2017

(Translated)

We see that things are improving. For example, there’s been an increase in the number of nurses training in north Wales. That figure is now higher than in any year over the past decade. So, we have invested in recruitment and also, of course, in training. That means that there’s been an increase of 13 per cent in nursing places in Wales over this financial year. We’ve put a £95 million investment into training, and that means that 3,000 new students can now study healthcare programmes in Wales. It is challenging, of course, because people don’t wish to come to the United Kingdom any longer because of Brexit, and they feel that they wouldn’t be welcome now. Of course, that is something that happened last year, but in order to deal with that, we understand that we need to train more nurses in Wales. That is why we’ve seen a significant increase in the numbers being trained.