Recruitment Challenges in the Welsh NHS

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:02 pm on 19 September 2018.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 3:02, 19 September 2018

Cabinet Secretary, I also welcome the ‘Train. Work. Live.’ scheme, but also the bursary, and I welcome very much the fact that the bursary is still being kept here in Wales while the Tories in England have abolished it. That is critical to seeing more Welsh citizens coming into the profession. And it's not just nursing, of course; it's other allied health professions as well. Can you reassure me that that bursary will continue, and can you expand upon it? Because as you have highlighted, we need more nurses and more other health professionals in our hospitals, in our services, to ensure that we can deliver those services, so we don't close beds.