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More than one in ten of 999 patient calls made over the last year have been triaged by the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust's (WAST) Integrated Care Team and saw alternative care provided instead of the patient being transported to hospital.

The Integrated Care Team is comprised of 83 clinicians – paramedics, nurses and mental health clinicians – across Wales.

Trauma desk paramedics are also available to support and advise when a patient is seriously injured.

Clinicians review waiting patients and speak directly to 999 callers to establish if other methods of response might be suitable, or whether it is safe to discharge the person at scene, and to ensure the priority assigned to the call does not need to be changed.

Since January 1st this year, the Integrated Care Team has been involved with 96,572 calls, which represents about 25 per cent of all 999 activity for the year.

Of those calls, 39,269 have been managed with clinical advice by telephone and avoided the patient being taken to hospital in an ambulance. This frees up ambulance resources to respond to other urgent calls in the community.

The Health Minister has praised the team following a visit to WAST’s Clinical Contact Centre. She said:


> The introduction of the Integrated Care Team, supported by Welsh Government funding, has improved efficiency and reduced pressure on the ambulance service and emergency departments. This is particularly important at this time of year when pressure on the NHS is most severe.
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> The team has also transformed the quality of care delivered to people in the community by providing them with earlier clinical intervention at scene, and helping to reserve ambulance response capacity for those most in need.
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> There is considerable work to do to improve ambulance response times, largely through Health Boards improving ambulance patient handover performance, but I was delighted to see the important work of this team delivering for patients first hand.

Penny Durrant, WAST’s Service Manager for the Integrated Care Team, said:


> We are really proud of this team, which is signposting patients to the most appropriate services, enabling patients to remain in their own homes and freeing up ambulances to respond to other urgent calls in the community.
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> These are the paramedics and nurses who traditionally have helped patients face\-to\-face, but who are now applying their skills in a different way by triaging patients over the phone.
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> At a time when pressures are more prevalent than ever, this is WAST’s way of thinking differently about the way it delivers services.
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> It’s about playing our part to alleviate pressures across the wider system and improving the experience for our patients.







Translation:


 
Mae mwy nag un o bob deg o alwadau 999 gan gleifion a wnaed yn ystod y flwyddyn wedi’u brysbennu gan Dîm Gofal Integredig yr Ymddiriedolaeth a rhoddwyd gofal amgen i gleifion yn hytrach na’u cludo i’r ysbyty.

Mae’r Tîm Gofal Integredig yn cynnwys 83 o glinigwyr ledled Cymru, yn barafeddygon, yn nyrsys ac yn glinigwyr iechyd meddwl.

Mae parafeddygon y ddesg trawma hefyd ar gael i helpu a chynghori pan fo claf wedi’i anafu’n ddifrifol.

Mae clinigwyr yn adolygu cleifion sy’n aros ac yn siarad yn uniongyrchol â’r rhai sy’n ffonio 999 er mwyn sefydlu a allai mathau eraill o ofal fod yn addas, neu a yw’n ddiogel rhyddhau’r person yn y fan a’r lle, yn ogystal â sicrhau nad oes angen newid y flaenoriaeth a neilltuwyd i’r alwad.

Ers 1 Ionawr eleni, mae’r Tîm Gofal Integredig wedi ymdrin â 96,572 o alwadau, sy’n cynrychioli tua 25% o weithgarwch 999 ar gyfer y flwyddyn.

O’r galwadau hynny, ymatebwyd i 39,269 ohonynt gan roi cyngor clinigol dros y ffôn ac osgoi cludo’r claf i’r ysbyty mewn ambiwlans. Mae hyn yn rhyddhau adnoddau ambiwlansys i ymateb i alwadau brys eraill yn y gymuned.

Mae’r Gweinidog Iechyd wedi canmol y tîm yn dilyn ei hymweliad â Chanolfan Gyswllt Glinigol Ymddiriedolaeth Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru. Dywedodd:


> Mae sefydlu’r Tîm Gofal Integredig, gyda chymorth cyllid Llywodraeth Cymru, wedi gwella effeithlonrwydd gwasanaethau ambiwlans ac adrannau brys a lleihau’r pwysau arnynt. Mae hyn yn arbennig o bwysig yr adeg hon o’r flwyddyn pan fo’r pwysau ar y Gwasanaeth Iechyd ar ei fwyaf sylweddol.
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> Mae’r tîm hefyd wedi trawsnewid ansawdd y gofal sy’n cael ei roi i bobl yn y gymuned drwy ddarparu ymyrraeth glinigol gynharach iddynt yn y fan a’r lle, gan helpu i gadw capasiti ymateb ambiwlansys i’r rhai sydd fwyaf mewn angen.
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> Mae gwaith sylweddol i’w wneud i wella amseroedd ymateb ambiwlansys, a hynny yn bennaf wrth i Fyrddau Iechyd wella perfformiad o ran trosglwyddo cleifion ambiwlans, ond roeddwn yn falch iawn o weld gyda’m llygaid fy hun waith pwysig y tîm hwn yn cyflawni ar gyfer cleifion.

Dywedodd Penny Durrant, Rheolwr Gwasanaeth Tîm Gofal Integredig Ymddiriedolaeth Gwasanaethau Ambiwlans Cymru:


> Rydyn ni’n falch iawn o’r tîm hwn sy’n cyfeirio cleifion at y gwasanaethau mwyaf priodol gan eu galluogi i aros yn eu cartrefi eu hunain yn ogystal â rhyddhau ambiwlansys i ymateb i alwadau brys eraill yn y gymuned.
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> Dyma’r parafeddygon a’r nyrsys sydd, yn draddodiadol, wedi helpu cleifion wyneb yn wyneb, ond sydd bellach yn defnyddio’u sgiliau mewn ffordd wahanol gan frysbennu cleifion dros y ffôn.
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> Ar adeg pan fo’r pwysau’n fwy amlwg nag erioed, dyma enghraifft o’r Ymddiriedolaeth yn meddwl yn wahanol am y modd y mae’n darparu gwasanaethau.
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> Mae’n ymwneud â chwarae ein rhan ni i leddfu’r pwysau ar draws y system ehangach a gwella profiadau i’n cleifion.