Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:57 pm on 5 October 2021.
Yes, they are working exceptionally hard and have done so not only over the past 18 months, but in light of warnings about a lack of capacity in previous years. Now, six years ago, the Royal College of General Practitioners carried out a survey of GPs in Wrexham and a third of them said that they intended to leave the profession within five years. Six years later, that has come to pass, so do you regret that you failed to take sufficient action at that point, given the warnings on the loss of doctors in the Wrexham area, and what are you doing do now to put that right?