Part of 1. 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:32 pm on 4 October 2017.
There’s been no increase in the full-time equivalent number of GPs in north Wales in a decade, despite increased population and trebling in GP contracts, and the number of GP training places in north Wales has been at a historic low now for a decade. The north Wales local medical committee, in the Assembly three years ago, called for contact to be re-established with Liverpool medical school, where many of them had come from to work in north Wales and had been trained here as young doctors. And when I raised this with the First Minister, he said that it’s hugely important that any medical school works closely with others in order to ensure that sustainability is there in the future. How, therefore, do you respond to continuing calls by GPs in the north Wales local medical committee for the solutions that you propose to incorporate strengthened connections with Liverpool and Manchester in terms of the supply of new and young doctors into the north Wales region?