English: The two health boards that I indicated earlier in the week have made public their choices to restrict some services - not just elective surgery but a range of out-patient appointments and others as well. I think it is entirely possible that we will see other health boards needing to do the same. And I refer to 'needing' to do the same - not wanting to but needing to - because of the very real service pressures. So, as I indicated in my answer to the Plaid Cymru spokesperson, we've already seen Cardiff and Vale assisting Cwm Taf Morgannwg with some of the pressures that they're facing, and it's important that mutual aid does exist across our national health service. I think it goes to the heart of the first question about making sure that health boards don't operate in an isolated fashion where they only think in a very narrow way, but to understand the broader impact. And that, too, has to be a consideration for the impact on the Welsh ambulance service as well, because the way that pressures are managed will have an impact on the ability to get to people in the community, to manage the emergency calls that they are taking and then to move those people to the right place for their care to continue. So, as I've indicated, the up-to-date position is that Aneurin Bevan are reporting an 11 per cent staff absence. I'll want to provide more figures to Members and the public on staff absences. I don't have a list to give you exactly on each and every health board, but people should not be surprised to see rising staff absences across each health board, in line with community transmission that we know is taking place. The R rate is going up across Wales, the threat level is rising across Wales; that's why the First Minister made the announcements that he did today. On elective care and other planned care, I recognise that there is harm caused when that is delayed. There is nothing pleasant about putting off treatment, which will cause anxiety for people, even if they understand and support why it's being done. If you're living with discomfort, then it may not be of much comfort to you that there is someone else in even greater need. But that is why our NHS is making these choices. That is why, as health Minister, I've endorsed the NHS having a framework to help guide those choices. Because the need is so great and we have people who will need care that could be the difference between long-term disability or the difference between surviving and not, and those are the choices that we are engaged in making. So, that's why I'm supporting and have endorsed that framework of action, and I'm afraid that there are more of those choices to come in the weeks and months ahead.
Welsh: Mae'r ddau fwrdd iechyd a nodais yn gynharach yn yr wythnos wedi cyhoeddi eu dewisiadau i gyfyngu ar rai gwasanaethau - nid llawdriniaethau dewisol yn unig ond amrywiaeth o apwyntiadau cleifion allanol ac eraill hefyd. Credaf ei bod yn gwbl bosibl y byddwn yn gweld angen i fyrddau iechyd eraill wneud yr un peth. A chyfeiriaf at 'angen' i wneud yr un peth - nid eisiau gwneud hynny ond angen - oherwydd y pwysau gwirioneddol ar wasanaethau. Felly, fel y nodais yn fy ateb i lefarydd Plaid Cymru, rydym eisoes wedi gweld Caerdydd a'r Fro yn cynorthwyo Cwm Taf Morgannwg gyda rhywfaint o'r pwysau sy'n eu hwynebu, ac mae'n bwysig fod cyd-gymorth yn bodoli ar draws ein gwasanaeth iechyd gwladol. Rwy'n credu ei fod yn ymwneud â hanfod y cwestiwn cyntaf ynglŷn â sicrhau nad yw byrddau iechyd yn gweithredu mewn modd ynysig lle nad ydynt ond yn meddwl mewn ffordd gul iawn, ond eu bod, yn hytrach, yn deall yr effaith ehangach. Ac mae'n rhaid i hynny hefyd fod yn ystyriaeth o'r effaith ar wasanaeth ambiwlans Cymru hefyd, oherwydd bydd y ffordd y caiff pwysau ei reoli yn effeithio ar y gallu i gyrraedd pobl yn y gymuned, i reoli'r galwadau brys y maent yn eu cymryd ac yna i symud y bobl hynny i'r lle iawn er mwyn i'w gofal barhau. Felly, fel y dywedais, y sefyllfa ddiweddaraf yw bod Aneurin Bevan yn nodi lefel absenoldeb staff o 11 y cant. Byddaf eisiau darparu mwy o ffigurau i'r Aelodau a'r cyhoedd mewn perthynas ag absenoldeb staff. Nid oes gennyf restr bendant i'w rhoi i chi ar bob bwrdd iechyd, ond ni ddylai pobl synnu gweld absenoldeb staff cynyddol ar draws pob bwrdd iechyd, i gyd-fynd â'r trosglwyddiad cymunedol y gwyddom ei fod yn digwydd. Mae'r gyfradd R yn codi ledled Cymru, mae lefel y bygythiad yn codi ledled Cymru; dyna pam y gwnaeth y Prif Weinidog y cyhoeddiadau a wnaeth heddiw. Ar ofal dewisol a gofal arall a gynlluniwyd, rwy'n cydnabod bod niwed yn deillio o oedi gofal o'r fath. Nid oes unrhyw beth yn ddymunol ynglŷn â gohirio triniaeth, ac fe fydd yn achosi pryder i bobl, hyd yn oed os ydynt yn deall ac yn cefnogi pam fod hynny'n digwydd. Os ydych yn dioddef anghysur, efallai na fydd yn fawr o gysur i chi fod rhywun arall mewn mwy o angen na chi. Ond dyna pam fod ein GIG yn gwneud y dewisiadau hyn. Dyna pam, fel Gweinidog iechyd, fy mod wedi cymeradwyo'r ffaith bod gan y GIG fframwaith i helpu i lywio'r dewisiadau hynny. Oherwydd mae'r angen mor fawr ac mae gennym bobl a fydd angen gofal a allai olygu'r gwahaniaeth rhwng anabledd hirdymor neu'r gwahaniaeth rhwng goroesi a pheidio â goroesi, a dyna'r dewisiadau rydym yn gorfod eu gwneud. Felly, dyna pam rwy'n cefnogi ac wedi cymeradwyo'r fframwaith gweithredu, ac mae arnaf ofn fod mwy o'r dewisiadau hynny i ddod yn yr wythnosau a'r misoedd nesaf.