Yesterday’s South Wales Echo reports that there is a shortage of junior doctors in the Welsh Health Service was no great surprise, however the results of a survey of English doctors as to why they do not wish to move to Wales did reveal some attitudes that need to be countered:
And they have discovered a staggering array of reasons given by young doctors about why they do not want to come to Wales.
They include:
- An assumption they will have to speak Welsh;
- a belief that Wales has its own currency;
- and a belief that Wales has poorer standards of training.
Dr Ian Lane, medical director of the Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, told the Echo he had even heard about young doctors asking if Cardiff has a Marks and Spencer store.
On other occasions, potential recruits asked where exactly Wales was.
What is especially worrying about these findings is that the doctors concerned form part of the most highly educated section of our society.
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