English: Thank you for your statement today, Minister. As a mother myself who's given birth within the Cwm Taf area, as well as being an Assembly Member for a constituency that falls under the Cwm Taf area, I can honestly say that this report is the most distressing thing that I have read since I was elected to this place three years ago, and my thoughts are very firmly with the families that have been affected. I'd like to add my support to comments previously expressed by other Assembly Members about the impact of these tragic consequences, the nine previous reports and missed opportunities to put things right and the urgency to put things right now. I'd also like to pay tribute to those really hard-working and dedicated front-line staff who will be feeling very vulnerable with the publication of this report today - many of whom I met when I visited the new service at Prince Charles hospital recently. From the mothers who gave evidence to this report, one theme stands out very strongly, and that's the fact they wanted to give their evidence in order to put things right for future mothers going through the service. The two areas of questioning that I'd like to focus on today are very firmly linked to that. Firstly, for all the women that I have spoken to from my constituency and also the women from Cynon Valley whose views are expressed in the report, there's one theme that stands out very clearly, and that's the issue around notes disappearing, or record keeping not being accurate, and women going through a very difficult time in labour being repeatedly asked by different members of staff to verbally pass on information rather than the information being there at hand. Now, you'll be aware that on the Public Accounts Committee, we have been undertaking an inquiry into NHS informatics, and I wondered whether, as part of the next step after this report, it would be appropriate to consider whether informatics could be used more effectively within the Cwm Taf maternity service, in order to ensure that all the information that midwives and doctors need is at hand in order to make the right decisions at the right time for mothers and for babies. Secondly - and this is an issue that you've touched upon in your reply to the previous Assembly Member - we know that the Cwm Taf area has particular issues around its socioeconomic make-up and resultant health issues that arise from that, but there are other areas of Wales that have those same challenges. What work can be done to link up the service provision in Cwm Taf with other very similar areas of Wales where they have fewer interventions in labour, which we know then leads often to safer outcomes for mothers and babies?
Welsh: Diolch am eich datganiad heddiw, Gweinidog. Gan fy mod yn fam fy hun a roddodd enedigaeth yn ardal Cwm Taf, yn ogystal â bod yn Aelod Cynulliad dros etholaeth sydd yn dod o dan ardal Cwm Taf, gallaf ddweud yn onest mai'r adroddiad hwn yw'r peth mwyaf gofidus imi ei ddarllen ers imi gael fy ethol i'r lle hwn tair blynedd yn ôl, ac mae fy meddyliau yn sicr gyda'r teuluoedd yr effeithiwyd arnynt. Hoffwn gefnogi sylwadau a fynegwyd yn flaenorol gan Aelodau Cynulliad eraill am effaith y canlyniadau trasig hyn, y naw adroddiad blaenorol a'r cyfleoedd a gollwyd i unioni pethau a'r brys i unioni pethau nawr. Hoffwn hefyd dalu teyrnged i'r staff rheng flaen hynny, sy'n gweithio mor galed ac ymroddedig a fydd yn teimlo eu bod mewn sefyllfa fregus iawn oherwydd cyhoeddi'r adroddiad hwn heddiw - cyfarfûm â llawer ohonyn nhw pan ymwelais â'r gwasanaeth newydd yn Ysbyty'r Tywysog Siarl yn ddiweddar. Yn ôl y mamau a roddodd dystiolaeth i'r adroddiad hwn, mae un thema yn amlwg iawn, sef y ffaith eu bod eisiau rhoi eu tystiolaeth er mwyn unioni pethau ar gyfer mamau yn y dyfodol a fydd yn mynd drwy'r gwasanaeth. Mae'r ddau faes holi yr hoffwn i ganolbwyntio arnyn nhw heddiw wedi'u cysylltu'n gryf iawn â hynny. Yn gyntaf, i'r holl fenywod yr wyf wedi siarad â nhw yn fy etholaeth a hefyd y menywod o Gwm Cynon y mynegir eu barn yn yr adroddiad, mae un thema yn amlwg iawn, sef y mater sy'n ymwneud â nodiadau'n diflannu, neu gofnodion nad ydyn nhw'n fanwl gywir, a menywod ar esgor yn mynd drwy gyfnod anodd iawn yn cael eu holi dro ar ôl tro gan wahanol aelodau o staff i drosglwyddo gwybodaeth ar lafar yn hytrach na bod yr wybodaeth yno wrth law. Nawr, fe wyddoch ein bod ni, ar y Pwyllgor Cyfrifon Cyhoeddus, wedi bod yn cynnal ymchwiliad i wybodeg y GIG, tybed felly, yn rhan o'r cam nesaf ar ôl yr adroddiad hwn, a fyddai'n briodol ystyried a ellid defnyddio gwybodeg yn fwy effeithiol yng ngwasanaeth mamolaeth Cwm Taf, er mwyn sicrhau bod yr holl wybodaeth sydd ei hangen ar fydwragedd a meddygon wrth law er mwyn iddyn nhw wneud y penderfyniadau iawn ar yr adeg iawn ar gyfer mamau a babanod. Yn ail - ac mae hwn yn fater yr ydych chi wedi cyfeirio ato yn eich ateb i'r Aelod Cynulliad blaenorol - gwyddom fod gan ardal Cwm Taf broblemau penodol o ran ei sefyllfa economaidd-gymdeithasol a'r problemau iechyd sy'n deillio o hynny, ond mae rhannau eraill o Gymru sydd â'r un heriau. Pa waith a ellir ei wneud i gysylltu'r ddarpariaeth gwasanaeth yng Nghwm Taf ag ardaloedd tebyg iawn eraill yng Nghymru lle mae ganddyn nhw lai o ymyriadau adeg esgor, sydd fel y gwyddom ni, yn arwain yn aml at ganlyniadau mwy diogel i famau a babanod?