Cwestiwn ysgrifenedig WQ97408
- Gofynnwyd gan
- James EvansCeidwadwyr
- I'w ateb gan
- Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
- Cyflwynwyd
- Dyddiad ateb
- Atebwyd
- Amser i'w ateb
- 7 diwrnod
Cwestiwn
Mae'r cwestiwn a'r ateb yn Saesneg gan nad oes fersiwn Gymraeg ar gael.
What immediate steps is the Welsh Government taking to improve retention among the existing haematology workforce, to prevent a service collapse before new trainees are ready?
Ateb
Atebwyd gan Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is responsible for developing the annual education and training plan for healthcare professionals. Workforce planning, recruitment, and retention are the responsibility of individual health boards. HEIW works in close collaboration with health boards to ensure education and training provision is aligned with current and future workforce needs.
To improve retention within the existing haematology workforce, the national retention programme was launched in December 2023 and is led by HEIW and delivered locally.
It identifies specialty-specific retention baselines and improvement priorities to foster compassionate leadership and supportive working environments. A suite of dashboards, toolkits, case studies, and masterclasses has been developed and shared via the national retention programme hub.
National and local retention leads are working closely with clinical and service leaders to embed best practices and to strengthen retention across pathology specialties, including haematology