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GP recruitment boost for NHS Wales
Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething has announced that the target for GP training places in Wales has once again been exceeded.
As part of the recruitment boost for NHS Wales at home and abroad, the quota for GP training places increased from 136 to 160 this year and 186 places have been filled, representing an increase of 38 per cent on last year’s 144 places filled.
The Train Work Live campaign includes two financial incentives: £20,000 to GP trainees taking up posts in specified areas with a trend of low fill rates, and a universal scheme offering a one off payment for all GP trainees to cover the cost of one sitting of their final examinations.
Gething said: “Once again we’ve managed to overfill our GP training places, this time against our newly increased target. Together with recruitment from outside Wales, we’ve made excellent progress in recruiting doctors to our NHS in recent years.
“I’m delighted we’ve been able to exceed our new increased target for GP training places. Our message that Wales is an excellent place to Train, Work and Live is clearly having an effect at home and abroad. While our GP trainee incentives are helping us meet our recruitment targets in areas that have historically proved difficult.
“But in order to ensure we can recruit the workforce our health service needs, we also need to look outside Wales, which is why I have been in India to help promote our recruitment efforts there. The Welsh Government is determined to ensure our NHS has the skilled workforce it needs to meet our long term ambitions for the NHS, set out in A Healthier Wales.”
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