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That's Newsnight with Kirstie coming up.

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A 16% increase in junior doctors choosing Wales to train as GPs.

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But will it ease the shortages and surgery closures?

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And these boys have plenty of ambition, so why are there

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still fewer opportunities for people with disabilities?

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There's been a 16% increase in the number of junior doctors

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It follows a decision by the Welsh Government to offer

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cash incentives to encourage junior doctors to train in areas

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Our health correspondent Owain Clarke reports.

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In the north, the west, in valley communities and beyond,

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a common complaint has been heard in recent years.

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Some surgeries have closed, others have been taken over

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because family doctors are quitting or retiring, and there's nobody

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The aim of this campaign launched in the autumn

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was to try to plug some of those gaps, to sell Wales

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to doctors who might never have considered coming.

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The Welsh Government was also offering hard cash,

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including ?20,000 to train to be GPs in areas of significant shortages.

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And, according to the Health Secretary, it's working.

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The new figures show it has been a successful campaign,

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highlighting the profile of Wales and a career here

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The specific financial incentives are having a real impact too,

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both in areas where it has been difficult to recruit but also exam

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If they want to become GPs, junior doctors can apply

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The Welsh NHS has 136 training places available.

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Last year, after the first of three application rounds,

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But this year, at the same stage, 114 of the 136 are full,

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with no vacancies left in Pembrokeshire, North West Wales

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Last year, at the end of the process there were 29

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This year, the Welsh Government hopes it might be zero.

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I think it is an improving picture but of course there are significant

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concerns with the issue of GPs facing retirement, with also GPs

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coming through the profession that are getting fed up and leaving.

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It isn't something that can be just, we can sit back and say,

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"Well, that is it, we have tackled the problem."

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With the day-to-day job getting ever more stressful, GP leaders insist

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the Welsh Government should also do more to keep hold of current staff.

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Tracey left Hampshire to become a GP in Mid Wales.

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An avid bird watcher, being close to these,

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the Dyfi Valley ospreys, was the biggest draw.

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I'm not working in a chaotic, over-busy environment.

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I feel better in myself that I can deal with things appropriately

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and then I can whizz off to the osprey centre

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Local GP surgeries are, after all, the front-line of the NHS,

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with staff in Wales dealing with around 20 million cases a year.

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But with demand set to go up even further, meeting it

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Detectives investigating the death of a 27-year-old man in Bangor have

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Henry Ayabowei was found collapsed outside a nightclub on Saturday.

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26-year-old Kieran Roberts will appear before Llandudno

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It's been claimed that the sacked chair of Sport Wales was told

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by the Welsh Government he was entering a "toxic

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environment" before he started the job.

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The leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies,

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says the comments were made to the former chair, Paul Thomas,

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Mr Thomas was sacked by the Welsh Government last week.

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North Wales Police paid a phone bill of more than ?44,000 for a mobile

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The phone was given to help the offender re-integrate

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back into the community, but because it wasn't

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a "pay-as-you-go" he ran up the huge bill.

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North Wales Police says it's tightened up it's proceedures.

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Fewer jobs, fewer qualifications and less pay for disabled people.

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That's the picture in Wales, 20 years on from laws

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A new report describes a country that treats disabled people

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Setting up an exhibition, ready to launch their new charity book,

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there was no shortage of ambition for pupils of Pen-y-Bryn

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School this afternoon at Swansea's Waterfront Museum.

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I'm James, I'm 18 and I want to be a plumber, electrician or carpenter.

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I'm 15 and I want to be the next Doctor Who.

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And there's every hope the wannabe football coach,

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plumber and future Time Lord will fulfill their ambitions.

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There are many hurdles and barriers to overcome in the future,

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which we will strive to embrace and challenge head-on.

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Our pupils have certainly got specific skills that they can bring

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to employment and be valuable members of the wider community.

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For Sarah Beer, who has scoliosis, a spinal condition,

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and Sarah-Jane Waters, who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome,

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a chronic illness, the details of the commission's report,

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which highlights the inequality faced by disabled people,

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I think it is very frustrating and I think if we are not careful

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we could end up going back towards more Victorian kind

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of values when it comes to disability and how

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That is wrong, that is inherently wrong.

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We can contribute to society and we have as much to offer

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It is really sad that so many things have improved in the last 20 years

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since the DDA came in for employment and awareness but it is still...

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We are still going backwards when it comes to a lot

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The report is the most comprehensive analysis ever of what it's

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like to be a disabled person in Wales and it doesn't paint

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Not only does it show that disabled people here are less likely to have

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qualifications and a job, but that in some aspects of life

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For example, the proportion of disabled adults in work

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here stands at just over 40%, compared to nearly 80%

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And there's differences in the amount of money earned too.

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Disabled people have seen their wages fall by 9%

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but there wasn't any change for non-disabled workers.

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The Welsh Government recognises these are long term issues which it

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It also says it's working with disabled people to review

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the framework with the aim of publishing a refreshed action

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Back in Swansea, while the pupils take a break from learning

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about the past, change is needed to secure a brighter future.

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Football, and just the one result to bring you tonight.

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Cardiff City picking up a point on the road.

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Their match with Barnsley finished goalless.

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It means they stay 13th in the Championship, one point

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Let's see what the weather has in store.

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I think we have seen the last of the rain for a while. March was the

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latest in Wales since 2008 but the next few days are largely dry and

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settled. -- wettest. Tonight, the sky is fairly clear with a few

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clouds in the North. A touch of ground frost in sports. Tomorrow, a

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fresh start, but bright for most of us the cloud will increase during

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the morning, the odd spot of light or drizzle in the North. The rest of

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the UK, sunny spells in southern England tomorrow, sunny in the best

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country in the afternoon, elsewhere a lot more cloud, most places dry,

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some spots of light rain and drizzle in the Northwest. Generally dry in

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Wales tomorrow afternoon. Fairly cloudy but bright in places. Some

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sunshine in the south and south-east. A light to moderate

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breeze. Thursday, maybe the odd shower in the north and West,

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otherwise eight dry story. Some gaps in the cloud allowing sunshine

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through. Friday, generally dry again and hopefully the cloud will break

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up more readily with a bit more sunshine so feeling a bit warmer.

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High-pressure on Saturday begins to drift away into the continent. It

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looks promising for the weekend. Saturday, the sunniest and warmest.

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Sunday is cloudy but staying mostly dry. A lot of dry weather over the

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next few days. Week In Week Out next tonight

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investigates children in care. From all of us on the

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programme, goodnight.

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