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Increase in junior doctors choosing Wales
According to the Welsh Health Secretary, a significantly higher amount of junior doctors are choosing to come to or stay in Wales to train to be GPs.
At present, 91 per cent of the 136 available family doctor training places in NHS Wales have been filled, compared to the 75 per cent which were filled the previous year.
Vaughan Gething, the Health Secretary, said that he was ‘particularly pleased’. The doctors’ union, the British Medical Association (BMA), also said it was a ‘positive step in the right direction’.
The rise comes after a decision was made last autumn by the Welsh government to offer £25,000 cash incentives to junior doctors who choose to train to become GPs in parts of Wales where shortages are in abundance. This formed part of an extensive national and international recruitment drive by the Welsh NHS.
Those who represent GPs have long warned of a crisis facing the NHS in Wales due to significant shortages of family doctors. In its latest analysis, the BMA estimates that dozens of GP surgeries in Wales are either at risk of closure or might need to be taken over by local health boards.
Dr Charlotte Jones, chairwoman of BMA Cymru’s GP committee, claims that the situation, which involves more than 350,000 patients, is ‘of grave concern’.
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