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The ‘Step Down’ service will support people to return to their communities when they no longer need treatment in hospital but may require more time, support, and specialist care. Care at home services are also being boosted to enable more people to return to their own home.  

  

An extra 508 beds and community care packages have been confirmed by local health boards and local authorities so far, with many more currently being negotiated.  

  

They are being provided by funding from the Welsh Government’s Regional Integration Fund and local authorities and health boards’ own resources.  

  

The Welsh Government this week also announced an extra £70m to ensure social care workers in Wales will receive the Real Living Wage. That is part of wider efforts to recruit and retain social care workers and strengthen the sector to help support eh NHS as it faces one of its toughest winters.  

  

Health Minster Eluned Morgan said:



> “Our health service is facing unprecedented demand this winter. But we know some people are staying in hospital longer than they need to. This in turn, has a severe knock\-on effect for people waiting for operations and creates delays for the ambulance service. We have been working hard with health boards and local authorities for months to make sure we have enough community beds this winter and there is still work going on to secure more beds. I hope to be able to announce more beds soon. Through this new initiative we can not only care for people closer to home but also free up more beds in our hospitals.”


Deputy Minister for Social Services Julie Morgan said: 



> “We know everyone wants to return to their community as soon as possible, following a hospital stay. But the current social care workforce shortages mean that’s not always possible at the moment. A short\-term stay in a Step Down facility, is the next best thing, with review and transfer to home as soon as possible.  
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> This week we also announced a £70m investment for social workers to receive the Real Living Wage. This is part of our longer\-term strategy to boost the recruitment and retention of social care staff in Wales and to make sure the care system can meet future demand.”


Councillor Andrew Morgan (Rhondda Cynon Taf), WLGA Leader said: 



> “We know the health sector and social care services are both under severe strain. These innovative packages will help to build move\-on capacity and improve flow across the health and social care system and to free some of the areas under pressures, such as discharges from hospitals and the impact this can have on ambulance waiting lists and admittance to hospitals.  
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> This increased capacity in the community, that councils have created working in partnership with health and supported by our social care providers, is an example of the practical solutions that happen as a product of co\-operation across the health sector, Welsh Government and local government, which we hope will have tangible benefits and positive impacts for individuals, particularly over the Winter period when services remain under significant pressure.”


People who are referred to ‘step down’ facilities include those who are medically fit to leave hospital, no longer meet the criteria for an acute hospital bed but require care and support services which cannot be provided in their own homes or require a short\-term stay as they are deemed unsafe to return to their home pending a start date for community packages of care.  

  

Individuals, their families and carers will be provided with information on their care plans.







Translation:


 
Bydd y gwasanaeth ‘Cam i Lawr’ yn cefnogi pobl i ddychwelyd i’w cymunedau pan na fydd angen triniaeth yn yr ysbyty arnynt mwyach ond efallai y bydd angen rhagor o amser, cymorth, a gofal arbenigol arnynt. Mae gwasanaethau gofal yn y cartref yn cael hwb hefyd i alluogi rhagor o bobl i ddychwelyd i’w cartrefi eu hunain.  

  

Mae 508 o welyau a phecynnau gofal cymunedol ychwanegol wedi’u cadarnhau gan fyrddau iechyd lleol ac awdurdodau lleol hyd yn hyn, ac mae llawer mwy yn cael eu trafod ar hyn o bryd.  

  

Cânt eu darparu drwy gyllid Cronfa Integreiddio Rhanbarthol Llywodraeth Cymru ac adnoddau’r awdurdodau lleol a’r byrddau iechyd eu hunain.  

  

Yr wythnos hon, fe wnaeth Llywodraeth Cymru hefyd gyhoeddi £70 miliwn ychwanegol i sicrhau y bydd gweithwyr gofal cymdeithasol yng Nghymru yn cael y Cyflog Byw Gwirioneddol. Mae hynny’n rhan o ymdrechion ehangach i recriwtio a chadw gweithwyr gofal cymdeithasol a chryfhau’r sector i helpu i gefnogi’r GIG wrth iddo wynebu un o’i aeafau anoddaf.  

  

Dywedodd y Gweinidog Iechyd, Eluned Morgan: 



> “Mae ein gwasanaeth iechyd yn wynebu galw digynsail y gaeaf hwn. Ond rydyn ni’n gwybod bod rhai pobl yn aros yn yr ysbyty yn hirach nag sydd angen. O ganlyniad, mae hyn yn cael effaith ddifrifol ar bobl sy’n aros am lawdriniaethau ac yn creu oedi ar gyfer y gwasanaeth ambiwlans. Rydyn ni wedi bod yn gweithio’n galed gyda byrddau iechyd ac awdurdodau lleol ers misoedd i sicrhau bod gennym ddigon o welyau cymunedol y gaeaf hwn ac mae gwaith yn dal i fynd rhagddo i sicrhau rhagor o welyau. Rwy’n gobeithio gallu cyhoeddi rhagor o welyau yn fuan. Drwy’r fenter newydd hon gallwn nid yn unig ofalu am bobl yn agosach at eu cartrefi ond hefyd ryddhau rhagor o welyau yn ein hysbytai.”


Dywedodd y Dirprwy Weinidog Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, Julie Morgan: 



> “Rydyn ni’n gwybod bod pawb eisiau dychwelyd i’w cymuned cyn gynted â phosib, yn dilyn arhosiad yn yr ysbyty. Ond mae’r prinder yn y gweithlu gofal cymdeithasol ar hyn o bryd yn golygu nad yw hynny bob amser yn bosib. Arhosiad tymor byr mewn cyfleuster ‘Cam i Lawr’, yw’r peth gorau nesaf, ac yna cynnal adolygiad a throsglwyddo’r unigolyn gartref cyn gynted â phosib.  
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> Yr wythnos hon, fe wnaethon ni hefyd gyhoeddi buddsoddiad o £70 miliwn i weithwyr cymdeithasol gael y Cyflog Byw Gwirioneddol. Mae hyn yn rhan o’n strategaeth tymor hwy i hybu recriwtio a chadw staff gofal cymdeithasol yng Nghymru ac i sicrhau y gall y system ofal ateb y galw yn y dyfodol.”


Dywedodd y Cynghorydd Andrew Morgan (Rhondda Cynon Taf), Arweinydd Cymdeithas Llywodraeth Leol Cymru: 



> “Rydyn ni’n gwybod bod y sector iechyd a gwasanaethau gofal cymdeithasol o dan bwysau aruthrol. Bydd y pecynnau arloesol hyn yn helpu i ddatblygu capasiti camu ymlaen a gwella llif ar draws y system iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol. Byddant hefyd yn helpu i leihau pwysau ar feysydd fel rhyddhau pobl o’r ysbyty a’r effaith y gall hyn ei chael ar restrau aros am ambiwlans a derbyn pobl i’r ysbyty. Mae’r capasiti cynyddol hwn yn y gymuned, a grëwyd gan gynghorau drwy weithio mewn partneriaeth â’r sector iechyd ac a gefnogir gan ein darparwyr gofal cymdeithasol, yn enghraifft o’r atebion ymarferol sy’n dwyn ffrwyth yn sgil cydweithio rhwng y sector iechyd, Llywodraeth Cymru a llywodraeth leol. Gobeithiwn y bydd ganddo fanteision pendant ac effeithiau cadarnhaol i unigolion, yn enwedig dros gyfnod y gaeaf pan fo gwasanaethau yn parhau i fod o dan bwysau sylweddol.”


Mae pobl sy’n cael eu cyfeirio at gyfleusterau ‘cam i lawr’ yn cynnwys y rhai sy’n ddigon iach yn feddygol i adael yr ysbyty, nad ydynt bellach yn bodloni’r meini prawf ar gyfer gwely ysbyty acíwt ond sydd angen gwasanaethau gofal a chymorth na ellir eu darparu yn eu cartrefi eu hunain. Maent hefyd yn cynnwys pobl sydd angen arhosiad tymor byr gan eu bod yn cael eu hystyried yn anniogel i ddychwelyd i’w cartref tra maent yn aros am ddyddiad cychwyn ar gyfer pecyn gofal cymunedol.  

  

Bydd unigolion, eu teuluoedd a’u gofalwyr yn cael gwybodaeth am eu cynlluniau gofal.