It has to be said that 4.5% uplift to a GP's income is more than 4.5% than a nurse's or a teacher's salary and that the Welsh government should do more to address the very real difficulties that those essential people are having in the current economic climate. However, the settlement just reached is a positive step.
The new contract will lift many non-monetary burdens from GPs which clearly were a major disincentive to doctors to staying on within the service in Wales. The burden on nurses, causing them to leave the profession which they joined out of love, is the overwork caused in a feedback loop by too many leaving the profession. Now that is a problem which can be solved by putting more money on the table, raiding other budgets if necessary. The consequential from the stamp duty cut could have been a start.
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