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Welsh Assembly invests £95m in training healthcare professionals (24 February 2017)

Date: 24/02/2017
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, Welsh Assembly invests £95m in training healthcare professionals

Welsh Assembly Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething, has announced a £95 million package to support a range of education and training programmes for healthcare professionals in Wales.

The investment will support nurses, physiotherapists, radiographers and a range of health science training opportunities and will enable more than 3,000 new students to join those already studying healthcare education programmes across Wales.

The funding builds on Welsh government funding already in place for nursing, providing an increase in excess of 13% for nursing training places, as well as the 10% increase in 2016-2017 and 22% increase in 2015-2016. Midwifery training places will increase by 40%.

The support package will also provide an additional £500,000 to support community healthcare – such as advanced practice, education and extended skills training to support primary care clusters.

There will also be a significant increase in practice nurse and district nurse education, as well as audiology training places within primary and community settings.

This will provide vital funding for community services and will ensure many more patients can be cared for closer to home, rather than in hospital.

Health Secretary, Vaughan Gething said:

“We rely on the skills, knowledge and experience of those providing the care in the NHS on a daily basis.This includes nurses and paramedics, as well as those behind the scenes, who provide vital support services such as laboratory tests to enable diagnoses to be made and treatment to be provided."

"Education and training is fundamental to ensuring the sustainability of our workforce.This £95 million investment will ensure that our healthcare professionals are able to provide high-quality care now and in the future – and that patients’ will be able to receive care closer to home.“


The funding package also includes an additional cohort of physician associate training places available from September 2017 – with 12 of the places hosted by Bangor University and 20 hosted by Swansea University.

The funding will also support the integration of hospital and community pharmacy training and education into one programme, said the Welsh government.

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