Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...yw gwelliannau a fydd yn sicrhau gwelliannau diriaethol ac yn diogelu rhai gwasanaethau yng Nghymru am y tro cyntaf erioed. Byddaf yn edrych ar rai o'r meysydd gwariant ychydig yn fanylach. Medical education is something that I hope that there’s a growing consensus on in this place. We do have to ensure that our medical schools, and medical education more widely, do provide for the...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...and for that agreement that Government somehow needs to set a higher bar. We need ambition and we need political will if we’re going to build on our ambition for a healthier, wealthier and well-educated Wales—that’s a phrase that reminds me of our manifesto for last year. The manifesto that Plaid Cymru stood on for the National Assembly elections was for a well-educated and wealthier...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...stay in Wales. Look at the figures from the Royal College of Physicians, who agree with us wholeheartedly on that need for home-grown medical training: only 30 per cent of students at Welsh medical schools are from Wales, compared with 55 per cent in Scotland, 80 per cent in England and 85 per cent in Northern Ireland. And, yes, we would support a quota system. Quotas have worked well in...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...ni mewn perig—mae mor syml â hynny—oherwydd llygredd, llygredd o gerbydau yn bennaf, yn yr enghreifftiau glywon ni amdanyn nhw. Roedd John Griffiths hefyd yn sôn yn benodol am draffig o'r school run a'r perig sydd yn dod o hynny. Mae'n rhaid monitro'n fanwl er mwyn gallu mesur yn llawer gwell beth sydd yn digwydd y tu allan i'n hysgolion ni, a'r ateb unwaith eto ydy Deddf aer...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...get more young people into medicine and wanting to become a GP. I don’t know how many of you saw the University of Nottingham study of 2014, which was truly shocking: 50 per cent of all further education colleges and sixth forms had nobody, not a single person, applying to medical school over a three-year period—not a single person. Many more that did have applicants only had maybe one...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...where people in this country can’t take enough pride in our level of prosperity and in our levels of wealth? We can see those persistently worrying indicators on health and the PISA rankings for education. Poverty levels are still devastatingly high. We can’t genuinely look people in Wales in the eye and say, ‘Yes, we are reaching our potential’. But, let’s move towards a time...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ..., which is leading to the closure of surgeries in Burry Port and in Porthcawl and in many other places that we’re hearing about in Wales. So, support this, and aim high. Let’s get this medical school in Bangor. Wales needs it. Wales’s patients need it.
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...gennym ni ym mharodrwydd y Llywodraeth i fod yn arloesol ac yn uchelgeisiol mewn perthynas â gweddill yr argymhellion? Here we have a well-evidenced call for the establishment of a new medical education centre in Bangor. Of course there’ll be barriers, but those barriers will never be overcome as long as this Government appears unwilling to push the boundaries of the possible. We have,...
Rhun ap Iorwerth: ...and recruit 1,000 extra doctors. A 10-year plan, with marginal gains, involving a range of policies: financial incentives; making the NHS more attractive for doctors to work; investments in medical education and training, including the development of medical training in the north. In 2016, we added the training and recruitment of 5,000 nurses and midwives over a 10-year period. We know...
