At the Welsh Labour Party Conference at Llandudno in June 2025, the following resolution proposed by SHA-Cymru delegate, David L Davies, was overwhelmingly supported.
“This conference notes with concern the provision of general practice by “for profit” commercial companies in Wales. We therefore believe that such contracts should be no longer offered.
This conference also believes that the Welsh Government should ensure that NHS Wales allocates a greater share of its resources to primary care services and its workforce (which alongside GPs should encompass those from different longstanding health and social care professions with defined spheres of practice).
This conference further believes in the principles of equity and need (proportionate universalism) through improving the allocation formulae to better match the requirements of patients in the most disadvantaged communities and groups.
This conference therefore supports the following policies and urges the Welsh Government to pursue them:
1) the establishment of a salaried public GP service
2) the promotion of existing GP partnership practices not owned by commercial companies
3) the allocation of a greater share of resources to primary care services
4) a review of the current allocation formulae to reduce inequalities in health”
It addition the Conference strongly supported a resolution which called for more urgent action to address the growing problem of ultra-processed foods (UPF) in our diet. The conference was told that UPF had a much to do with a healthy diet as Reform’s health policies had to do with protecting the NHS This public health scourge was driven by corporate greed and the unaffordability of healthy nutritious food.
The Conference also heard impassioned concerns about a culture in parts of the NHS which paid insufficient attention and respect for women’s health. This was leading to concerns of women not being taken seriously enough and patients missing out of timely, vital health care.
