National Assembly for Wales

Insert as new point 2 and renumber accordingly:

Regrets that, due to the failure of successive Welsh Governments to undertake adequate workforce planning, the NHS in Wales has staff shortages across many specialities, particularly nursing, general practice, emergency medicine, psychiatry, radiology and endoscopy; and that these shortages are putting existing staff under tremendous strain and impacting on patient care.

In point 4, delete 'implementing priority access to treatment for NHS workers and'.

Delete points 3 and 4 and replace with:

Welcomes the Welsh Government’s commitment to:

a) publish a comprehensive integrated strategy for Wales’s health and social care workforce in 2019 to ensure our services are able to address future demand for safe and high quality services;

b) make NHS Wales an exemplar employer through its support for well-being at work by developing robust policies that support the health, well-being and continual professional development of the health and social care workforce.

Add as new point at end of motion:

Calls for the opening of a centre for medical education in Bangor and the expansion of medical education across Wales to ensure every region has the health workforce it requires.

Add as new point at end of motion:

Calls for future health and social care workforce plans to include robust targets for providing a bilingual workforce and details of how existing NHS staff will be encouraged and supported to learn Welsh.