GP trainees could be attracted to Wales by incentives such as payments towards student loans or exam fees, said the chairwoman of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee for Wales. Charlotte Jones said that workforce recruitment and retention were among the main concerns raised by GPs at the Welsh local medical committees’ conference in Newport last weekend, as practices in the country were struggling to recruit GPs. Speaking to BMJ Careers after the conference, she said, “We need to look at mechanisms that will attract GPs to Wales, such as the environment in which they …