Cardiff Bay “Labour has comprehensively failed” – audit Wales report reveals NHS workforce challenges
Audit Wales has published a report today detailing the workforce challenges at the heart of the Welsh NHS, calling for “collective action”, highlighting a reliance on “expensive” agency staff to “plug gaps in the workforce”.
Auditor General for Wales, Adrian Compton said that “the NHS in Wales continues to face significant workforce challenges” and that service demand “is expected to grow further”.
Welsh Conservative, James Evans MS has criticised the Welsh Labour Government for failing to bring forward a substantial workforce plan to meet the needs of the Welsh NHS and the public.
Commenting, Welsh Conservative Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, James Evans MS said:
“The Welsh Labour Government have comprehensively failed to bring forward the substantial workforce plan that the Welsh NHS needs to serve the public.
“Without proper planning, we remain stuck in a perpetual cycle of less money being available to repair the foundations of the NHS, because disproportionate funding is going towards costly agency staff.
“Welsh Conservatives will bring forward the recruitment and retention plan needed to fix the Welsh NHS, because Wales deserves better than this Welsh Labour Government.”
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