8. Welsh Conservatives Debate: The health and social care workforce

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:30 pm on 20 June 2018.

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Photo of Angela Burns Angela Burns Conservative 5:30, 20 June 2018

Thank you very much indeed, Caroline Jones, for taking the intervention. You've highlighted the case exceptionally well for why we have such a big shortage everywhere, which is why—and I'm going to read the figure out again—948 years are lost because of mental illness. If only some of those people were put back into the workforce more quickly, instead of having to recruit people. We can't magic them out of thin air. We've got them there; let's make them well, let's get them working.