Welsh NHS Confederation response to the Welsh Conservatives Social Services Policy Board
4 October 2023
Welsh NHS Confederation response to the Welsh Conservatives Social Services Policy Board.
Workforce
Summary of our calls
- The need to promote staff wellbeing and developing cross-sector skills.
- Raising awareness of the We Care Wales website and provide sustainable funding for social care, with a fully funded pay rise to enable recruitment and retention, alongside greater overall investment and career progression opportunities.
- Engaging, developing and supporting staff to prioritise staff wellbeing.
- Need for long-term financial certainty and investing in Welsh communities.
- Need for one public service.
- Need for a national conversation.
- Need for a National Health and Care Service.
- Reshaping the public’s relationship with the NHS and embedding population health.
- Quality-based outcomes focusing on public experience across health and care.
- Need for a cross-government approach to reducing poverty and inequalities.
- Building a digitally ready workforce.