GP Time Bomb

Political party Plaid Cymru have announced their stated goals, in which that they intend to bring down GP waiting times across the whole of Wales.

Wales is apparently facing a GP time bomb, with almost 50% of GPs in some areas approaching retirement age. Figures the party argues; shows that the number of GPs in Wales has reduced by 20 over the past year despite a Labour Welsh Government policy to shift emphasis of patient care out of acute hospitals and to GP led services in the community.

The ambitious goals include training and recruiting a thousand extra doctors to the NHS in Wales. Offering structured financial incentives to encourage doctors to difficult-to-recruit areas and investing in telemedicine to help people get access to specialist care in their local GP surgery.

Plaid Cymru acknowledged that delivering linger hours for GP surgeries would need to be delivered by renegotiating the GP contracts and claim that the Labour Government in Wales has failed to deliver its manifesto commitment to improve access to GP surgeries.

In short seeing that everyone in Wales is able to access their GP when they need it.