Bowel Screening Wales

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:39 pm on 25 April 2018.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 2:39, 25 April 2018

Well, there are two points. One is about what we do to retain our current workforce into the future, and the second is our planning for the future, both in terms of increasing our capacity and actually being able to have training numbers that match that future capacity. And that is the work that Government is already undertaking. I reported on this issue, actually, in a meeting at the start of this week to the Wales Cancer Alliance. They raised concerns they'd raised within the cross-party group, so I recognise the issue that exists, as I said in answer to David Rees. We will need to come forward in the next stage of our planning—and the work of Health Education Improvement Wales is part of this in understanding what we need to do to plan for that future, as well as making sure that the current working environment is one where we'll retain more and more of our staff and, of course, our experience in this area of work.