Your one-stop guide to the size, strengths and vulnerabilities of the nursing workforce in Wales. Keep it to hand for up-to-date information on nursing in the Welsh NHS and independent sector – and what the Welsh government needs to do to keep patients safe into the future. This is the Welsh-language version of this report. There is also a version in English under publication code 012 369.

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