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NDM8600 Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv) - Dentistry training
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Meeting: 03/07/2024 - Plenary (Item 6)
Member Debate under Standing Order 11.21(iv) - Dentistry training
NDM8600 Sian
Gwenllian (Arfon)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes the concerns that are regularly
raised by Members of the Senedd about the lack of NHS dental services.
2. Notes the barriers documented and the recommendations
made as to the way forward in the Health and Social Care Committee’s report on
dentistry.
3. Notes the specific challenges associated
with planning, training, recruiting and retaining dentists in Wales.
4. Notes the publication of the Dental
Strategic Workforce Plan by Health Education and Improvement Wales and the
references made, within that plan, namely:
a) Wales is a net importer of dentists;
b) Wales relies on schools of dentistry
beyond Wales to produce enough dentists to recruit into the workforce; and
c) the United Kingdom has the lowest number
of dentists per person compared with other large members of the G7 in Europe.
5. Notes that the number of places at the
only school of dentistry in Wales is limited each year.
6. Calls on the Welsh Government to increase
the number of university training places for dentists in Wales.
Dental Strategic Workforce Plan
Co-submitters
Jane Dodds (Mid and West Wales)
Supporters
Heledd Fychan (South Wales Central)
Minutes:
The item started at 15.13
Voting on the motion under this item was deferred
until Voting Time.
NDM8600 Sian Gwenllian (Arfon)
To propose that the Senedd:
1. Notes the concerns that are regularly raised by Members of the Senedd
about the lack of NHS dental services.
2. Notes the barriers documented and the recommendations made as to the
way forward in the Health and Social Care Committee’s report on dentistry.
3. Notes the specific challenges associated with planning, training,
recruiting and retaining dentists in Wales.
4. Notes the publication of the Dental Strategic Workforce Plan by
Health Education and Improvement Wales and the references made, within that
plan, namely:
a) Wales is a net importer of dentists;
b) Wales relies on schools of dentistry beyond Wales to produce enough
dentists to recruit into the workforce; and
c) the United Kingdom has the lowest number of dentists per person
compared with other large members of the G7 in Europe.
5. Notes that the number of places at the only school of dentistry in
Wales is limited each year.
6. Calls on the Welsh Government to increase the number of university
training places for dentists in Wales.
Dental
Strategic Workforce Plan
Co-submitters
Jane Dodds (Mid and West Wales)
Supporters
Heledd Fychan (South Wales
Central)
Peredur Owen Griffiths (South
Wales East)
The result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
29 |
15 |
0 |
44 |
The motion was agreed.