Translate the text from English to Welsh.



 
NHS healthcare staff are already offered flu vaccination by NHS employers as part of occupational health services. Sustained, year on year progress has been made in increasing uptake.   
  
Last winter, to the end of March 2018, there were 71 reported flu outbreaks in Wales, of which 42 (60%) happened in care homes. Studies have shown that the uptake of flu immunisation in staff in care homes is low, and that they have an increased risk of catching flu.   
  
Until now, responsibility for offering flu vaccine to social care staff has rested with individual employers. Despite having high flu vaccination rates in residents, flu can spread easily within care homes and can be passed from staff to residents when the staff member has mild or even no symptoms. This is partly because, as people age, they do not produce as good an immune response to vaccination. This makes vaccination of staff caring for frail, older people even more important.  
  
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) recommends that healthcare and social care workers receive a flu vaccination to help protect vulnerable patients and residents in their care, from the effects of flu.   
  
Health and Social Services Secretary, Vaughan Gething said:  



> “As we prepare for the flu season each year, it is important that we maximise resilience within health and social care services to enable them to manage better during times of exceptional seasonal pressure.
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> “Vaccination of staff has been shown to be effective in reducing the spread of disease and patient mortality in care home settings. It can also help to ensure business continuity by reducing flu related staff illness and the need to provide locum cover. The social care sector has a crucial role to play in preventing hospital admissions over the winter period, particularly for older people.
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> “Therefore, for winter 2018\-19, I have taken the decision to offer flu vaccination to staff working in adult residential care and nursing homes, at no cost to themselves or their employers, through community pharmacies on the NHS.”

This action is being taken alongside a significant expansion of the children’s vaccination programme. Next winter, the programme will be extended by two additional school years to include school years 5 and 6\. This means that all primary school aged children from reception class to year 6 will be offered the flu vaccine from 2018\-19\.  
  
The Health Secretary added:


> “It is really important that people more at risk of developing complications from flu, such as pregnant women, those aged 65 and over, and people with long term health conditions, receive the vaccine. In 2017\-18, take up of the flu vaccine in these groups, was higher than ever. That is good news, but we cannot be complacent, and our flu campaign for 2018\-19 will continue to stress the real benefits of getting the flu jab.”







Translation:


 
Mae staff gofal iechyd y GIG eisoes yn cael cynnig brechiad rhag y ffliw gan eu cyflogwyr fel rhan o'r gwasanaethau iechyd galwedigaethol, gyda mwy a mwy yn derbyn y brechiad o flwyddyn i flwyddyn.   
  
Y gaeaf diwethaf, hyd at ddiwedd mis Mawrth 2018, cafwyd 71 adroddiad am achosion o'r ffliw yng Nghymru, gyda 42 o'r rheiny (60%) yn digwydd mewn cartrefi gofal. Mae astudiaethau wedi dangos mai nifer isel o'r staff mewn cartrefi gofal sy'n derbyn brechiad rhag y ffliw, a bod mwy o berygl iddynt ddal y ffliw.   
  
Hyd yma, cyflogwyr unigol oedd yn gyfrifol am gynnig brechiad rhag y ffliw i staff gofal cymdeithasol. Er gwaethaf lefelau uchel o frechu ymysg preswylwyr, gall y ffliw ledaenu'n rhwydd o fewn cartrefi gofal, a chael ei basio i breswylwyr gan staff â symptomau ysgafn iawn, os o gwbl. Mae hynny'n digwydd, i raddau, gan nad yw imiwnedd pobl yn ymateb mor dda i'r brechiad wrth heneiddio, ac yn golygu bod brechu staff sy'n gofalu am bobl hŷn a bregus yn bwysicach fyth.  
  
Mae'r Cyd\-bwyllgor ar Imiwneiddio a Brechu yn argymell y dylai gweithwyr gofal iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol gael brechiad rhag y ffliw er mwyn helpu i amddiffyn cleifion a phreswylwyr agored i niwed dan eu gofal rhag effeithiau'r ffliw.   
  
Dywedodd yr Ysgrifennydd Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol, Vaughan Gething:  



> "Wrth i ni baratoi ar gyfer tymor y ffliw bob blwyddyn, mae'n bwysig sicrhau bod y gwasanaethau iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol mor gadarn â phosib er mwyn eu galluogi i ddygymod yn well â'r pwysau tymhorol eithriadol.
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> "Profwyd bod brechu staff yn ffordd effeithiol o gyfyngu ar ledaeniad y clefyd a lleihau nifer y marwolaethau ymysg cleifion mewn cartrefi gofal. Gall hefyd helpu i sicrhau parhad busnes drwy leihau nifer yr achosion o salwch yn gysylltiedig â'r ffliw ymysg staff, a'r angen i ddarparu gwasanaeth locwm. Mae gan y sector gofal cymdeithasol rôl hanfodol i'w chwarae i osgoi derbyniadau i'r ysbyty dros y gaeaf, yn arbennig ymysg pobl hŷn.
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> "Felly, ar gyfer gaeaf 2018\-19, rydw i wedi penderfynu cynnig brechiad rhag y ffliw i staff sy'n gweithio mewn cartrefi nyrsio a chartrefi gofal preswyl i oedolion, heb unrhyw gostau iddynt eu hunain nac i'w cyflogwyr, drwy fferyllfeydd cymunedol y GIG."

Yn ogystal â hyn bydd y rhaglen i frechu plant yn cael ei ehangu'n sylweddol. Y gaeaf nesaf, bydd y rhaglen yn cael ei hymestyn i ddwy flwyddyn ysgol arall i gynnwys blynyddoedd ysgol 5 a 6\. Bydd hyn yn golygu bod yr holl blant oedran cynradd o'r dosbarth derbyn i flwyddyn 6 yn cael cynnig y brechiad rhag y ffliw o 2018\-19 ymlaen.   
  
Ychwanegodd yr Ysgrifennydd Iechyd:


> "Mae'n bwysig iawn i bobl sydd mewn perygl o ddioddef cymhlethdodau o'r ffliw \- fel menywod beichiog, pobl 65 oed ac yn hŷn, a phobl a chyflyrau iechyd hirdymor \- gael brechiad. Yn 2017\-18, manteisiodd mwy nag erioed o’r grwpiau hyn ar y brechiad. Mae hyn yn newyddion da, ond fedrwn ni ddim llaesu ein dwylo. Bydd ein hymgyrch ffliw ar gyfer 2018\-19 yn parhau i bwysleisio manteision gwirioneddol cael brechiad rhag y ffliw."