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Camau gweithredu i gefnogi cadw’r gweithlu yng Nghymru

Y mis hwn, mae ein his-lywydd dros Gymru, Hilary Williams, yn blogio am bolisi newydd i fynd i’r afael â diogelwch rhywiol a bwlio mewn meddygaeth, cynhadledd Wanwyn Plaid Cymru, a chamau gweithredu i fynd i’r afael â chadw ein gweithlu.

NHS Confederation Health And Well Being Alliance

Actions to support workforce retention in Wales

This month our vice president for Wales, Hilary Williams, blogs about a new policy to tackle sexual safety and bullying in medicine, Plaid Cymru’s spring conference, and actions to address retention of our workforce.

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Inspiring the next generation of physicians: The South-West IMT recruitment event

As part of our #NextGenPhysicians blog series, Dr Nicola Maddox, former associate college tutor (ACT) and current ST4 in medical microbiology, shares how she helped tackle recruitment challenges in internal medicine by launching the South-West IMT recruitment event. What started as a small local initiative has grown into a thriving regional programme, inspiring medical students and resident doctors to pursue careers in internal medicine, and helping to shape the future of the medical workforce.

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Supporting clinicians to manage corridor care

As part of the Royal College of Physicians' (RCP) efforts to eliminate corridor care, Dr John Dean, clinical vice president, discusses the RCP’s recent guidance for clinicians and sets out what government must do to eliminate the practice.

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Gwrando gyda bwriad – Rheol Martha i Gymru

Mis yma, ein blogiwr gwadd Dr Chris Subbe, meddyg ymgynghorol acíwt ym Mangor, sy’n trafod pwysigrwydd ‘gwrando gyda bwriad’ ac a oes angen Rheol Martha yng Nghymru.

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Listening with intent - Martha's Rule for Wales

This month, our guest blogger is Dr Chris Subbe, an acute consultant physician in Bangor, who discusses the importance of ‘listening with intent’ and whether we need a Martha’s Rule for Wales.

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Modelling the medical specialty workforce – considerations for the 2025 iteration of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan

In this write-up of the RCP medical specialty workforce roundtable in November 2024, Dr Sarah Logan, director of the RCP’s Medical Workforce Unit, sets out the themes around future demand for the medical specialty workforce. These must be considered in the 2025 iteration of the NHS England Long Term Workforce Plan as part of mapping future medical specialty postgraduate places.

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Joined-up government action lies at the heart of tackling health inequalities, but the health service must act too

Newly appointed RCP special adviser on population health Dr Chris Packham shares his insights on population health amid the current pressures facing the NHS workforce and why the government must work to address health inequalities.

Tackling Health Inequalities

Commissioning relationships with third sector services requires an urgent reset to reduce long-standing mental health inequalities

The Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA) is a coalition of more than 250 organisations, convened by the RCP, which campaigns for a cross-government strategy to reduce health inequalities. This guest blog post by Jeremy Bacon, Third Sector Lead in the policy team at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is part of a series by IHA member organisations.