General Practitioner Training in North Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:54 pm on 13 December 2017.

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Photo of Llyr Gruffydd Llyr Gruffydd Plaid Cymru 2:54, 13 December 2017

(Translated)

I listened with interest to the answers that you gave to Rhun ap Iorwerth earlier, but we do know that only 3.5 per cent of trainee doctors in the UK are in Wales, although we have 5 per cent of the population and, I would argue, that our health needs are greater than that. I just don’t feel feel that the Government fully understands the level of the problem that we have in north Wales. The number of trainee GPs in north Wales is around two for every 100,000 of the population. In Cardiff, it's around six to every 100,000 of the population, and this is rehearsed year on year, with the situation at its worst now in north Wales. So, may I ask: when will the Government truly recognise the specific needs of north Wales in this context in order to resolve this problem once and for all?