English: Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Can I welcome your statement, Cabinet Secretary, on the seventieth anniversary of the NHS? It was born in Wales as a result of one man, Aneurin Bevan, who had the political will and strength of conviction and vision to take this forward, building on the local Tredegar Medical Aid Society, as you said, which so inspired him. Cabinet Secretary, you may not have had the opportunity in your busy schedule to see the ode to the NHS created by Welsh poet Owen Sheers with his film To Provide All People. It was broadcast last week and last weekend. He chose to honour his local district general hospital, Nevill Hall, and in a preview in the Radio Times - it was filmed at Nevill Hall - he spoke in tribute to Nevill Hall, where his mother received her knee replacement, his premature daughter received life-saving care, and his eldest daughter attends ophthalmology clinics. Will you join Owen Sheers and myself in thanking the staff of Nevill Hall Hospital for their devotion to care and clinical excellence, which we know is replicated in our hospitals across Wales? Would you also agree with Owen Sheers when he describes what Nye Bevan achieved - creating the NHS as a monument to the communal, and yet providing care for the individual, meeting the health needs of the population? Do you agree that this is how we must sustain and safeguard our Welsh NHS? I would also like to pay tribute to Dr Julian Tudor Hart, who sadly passed away at the weekend following a very active retirement, leading the Socialist Health Association, following 30 years as a 'new kind of doctor'. He wrote a book about that, obviously, from his Glyncorrwg health centre experience, where he inspired Dr Brian Gibbons to come from Ireland to work there and then become health Minister here. Julian was a huge influence on me before I became an Assembly Member and the first Minister for Health and Social Services. During my time in that post, he was an inspiring and supportive influence in those early days. I would like you to express again your recognition of his contribution with the inverse care law. I looked at the paper in The Lancet that he wrote - it was back in 1971 - and in the summary he says: 'The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served. This inverse care law operates more completely where medical care is most exposed to market forces, and less so where such exposure is reduced.' Do you agree that is still pertinent today as evidence, and that we have a duty here in Wales to ensure that it is our policy and our commitment to provide free healthcare for all, without the negative impact of market forces?
Welsh: Diolch ichi, Dirprwy Lywydd. A gaf i groesawu eich datganiad, Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, ar ben-blwydd y GIG yn saith deg? Cafodd ei eni yng Nghymru o ganlyniad i un dyn, Aneurin Bevan, a oedd â'r ewyllys gwleidyddol ac argyhoeddiad cryf a gweledigaeth i fwrw ymlaen â hyn, gan ddatblygu ar y Gymdeithas Cymorth Meddygol Tredegar leol, fel y dywedasoch, a'i hysbrydolodd cymaint. Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet, efallai nad ydych chi wedi cael y cyfle yn eich amserlen brysur i weld y gerdd i'r GIG a grëwyd gan y bardd o Gymru Owen Sheers a'i ffilm To Provide All People. Cafodd ei darlledu yr wythnos diwethaf a phenwythnos diwethaf. Dewisodd anrhydeddu ei ysbyty cyffredinol dosbarth lleol, Nevill Hall, ac mewn rhagolwg yn y Radio Times - cafodd ei ffilmio yn Ysbyty Nevill Hall - siaradodd fel teyrnged i Ysbyty Nevill Hall, lle cafodd ei fam ei phen-glin newydd, lle cafodd ei ferch ei geni'n gynnar gan dderbyn gofal a achubodd ei bywyd, a lle mae ei ferch hynaf yn mynychu clinigau offthalmoleg. A wnewch chi ymuno ag Owen Sheers a minnau i ddiolch i staff Ysbyty Nevill Hall am eu hymroddiad i ofal a rhagoriaeth glinigol, y gwyddom y cânt eu hailadrodd yn ein hysbytai ledled Cymru? A fyddech chi hefyd yn cytuno ag Owen Sheers pan fo'n disgrifio'r hyn a gyflawnodd Nye Bevan - creu'r GIG fel cofeb gymunedol, ac eto darparu gofal i'r unigolyn, a diwallu anghenion iechyd y boblogaeth? A ydych chi'n cytuno mai dyma sut y mae'n rhaid i ni gynnal a diogelu ein GIG yng Nghymru? Hoffwn i hefyd roi teyrnged i Dr Julian Tudor Hart, a fu farw dros y penwythnos yn dilyn ymddeoliad gweithgar iawn, yn arwain y Gymdeithas Iechyd Sosialaidd, ar ôl 30 mlynedd fel 'math newydd o feddyg'. Ysgrifennodd lyfr am hynny, yn amlwg, o'i brofiad yn ei ganolfan iechyd yng Nglyncorrwg, pan ysbrydolodd Dr Brian Gibbons i ddod o Iwerddon i weithio yno ac yna i ddod yn Weinidog iechyd yma. Roedd Julian yn ddylanwad enfawr arnaf i cyn imi ddod yn Aelod o'r Cynulliad a'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol cyntaf. Yn ystod fy nghyfnod yn y swydd honno, bu'n ddylanwad ysbrydoledig a chefnogol yn y dyddiau cynnar hynny. Hoffwn ichi fynegi unwaith eto eich bod yn cydnabod ei gyfraniad i'r gyfraith gofal gwrthgyfartal. Edrychais ar y papur yn The Lancet a ysgrifennodd - roedd hynny yn ôl yn 1971 - ac yn y crynodeb mae'n dweud: Mae argaeledd gofal meddygol da yn tueddu i amrywio yn wrthgyfartal â'r angen amdano yn y boblogaeth a wasanaethir. Mae'r gyfraith gofal gwrthgyfartal hon yn gweithredu'n fwy cyflawn lle mae gofal meddygol fwyaf agored i rymoedd y farchnad, a llai felly pan fo amlygiad o'r fath yn llai. A ydych chi'n cytuno ei bod yn dal yn berthnasol heddiw fel tystiolaeth, a bod gennym ni ddyletswydd yma yng Nghymru i sicrhau mai ein polisi a'n hymrwymiad ni yw darparu gofal iechyd am ddim i bawb, heb effaith negyddol grymoedd y farchnad?