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South Wales Argus
01-08-2025
- Health
- South Wales Argus
BMA: 40% of resident Welsh doctors could be unemployed
A British Medical Association (BMA) Cymru Wales survey has revealed that 40 per cent of resident doctors in Wales could be without work from August, with 53 per cent of those at risk having failed to secure a specialty training post. Dr Oba Babs-Osibodu, chairman of the BMA's Welsh Resident Doctor Committee, said: "At a time when Wales needs more doctors, there are limited opportunities for resident doctors to develop their careers in the country where they trained. "Doctors are now forced to seek ad hoc locum work, leave Wales, or leave the profession altogether. "Poor workforce planning and chronic underfunding of the NHS has led to a national shortage of doctors in Wales." The BMA warned earlier this year that the Welsh Government had not acted on recommendations to expand specialty training places, despite increasing numbers of medical graduates. Nearly half of those facing unemployment are considering leaving medicine entirely, while 30 per cent are applying for jobs abroad. Dr Babs-Osibodu said: "This is unsafe for patients, and we need to see urgent intervention from the Welsh Government, including legislation to provide safer staffing levels and an expansion in specialty training places."
BBC News
31-01-2025
- Health
- BBC News
GPs in Wales accept improved government pay offer
The body representing GPs in Wales has accepted an improved pay deal from the Welsh Cymru Wales members voted to reject the original proposal in December, but said they had received a "significantly improved offer".The revised figure brings it up to the 6% pay rise recommended by the doctors and dentists pay review Welsh government said the same increase would also be offered to all practice staff. A one-off, additional payment of £23m "practice stabilisation payment" has been included.A review of standards will also be carried out to reduce the bottleneck of patient calls at the start of the most GP practices are owned and operated by GP partners, similar to a small business, they are contracted to provide services on behalf of the BMA in Wales has campaigned for some time to increase funding for general practice as it claims there is insufficient capacity to meet the demand for services."We acknowledge that this settlement does not resolve every issue," said Dr Gareth Oelmann, chair of the BMA's Welsh GP committee. "We have reservations about non-recurrent funding given the awareness of upcoming unavoidable costs from the start of the financial year. "Nevertheless, it provides a solid foundation we can build upon in the next round of negotiations for the 2025-26 contract. We have assurances from the Welsh government that this will take place as early as possible." The health secretary, Jeremy Miles, said talks would continue to "explore potential solutions to sustainability issues through different service models, which will also support our shared aim of delivering more care closer to home including diagnostics".As part of negotiations, the annual health check for patients with learning disabilities will also be offered by every GP practice. Take up of these checks fell after the new contract also has a focus on improving the patient data that is will need to "proactively identify and record people who are living with severe or moderate frailty" as well as collect and record patient ethnicity data. Research by charity Tenovus had previously shown large variation in compliance with capturing ethnicity data, but was generally poor across the board in Wales.
