English: Well, Llywydd, I thank Sarah Murphy for that important question. She's right to highlight the key role of operating department practitioners within the surgical team. She will know from her visit to the Princess of Wales that the current challenge in operating theatres is not simply one of staff, it is also dealing with the restrictions that safe practice in the coronavirus context also requires. She'll have heard, I'm sure, directly from staff about how theatres have to be cleaned thoroughly between every operation, as to how some procedures - where it was possible to have an operating list with eight procedures in a day, they can now only manage three in a day, even when fully staffed, because of coronavirus restrictions. Nevertheless, she is absolutely right to point to operating department practitioners as key. She will know that we have already announced an extra £100 million of investment in the health service here in Wales to help it with the recovery from the pandemic, and that is already helping to recruit additional theatre staff. But the Member made another important point: it isn't simply recruiting more staff who are already trained; it's making sure that the training system in Wales produces the staff that we will need for the future. And Health Education and Improvement Wales has set out its plans to do that. It has ambitious plans to increase the number of not simply doctors but all those other people on whom the health service depends, and operating department practitioners are amongst that number.
Welsh: Wel, Llywydd, diolchaf i Sarah Murphy am y cwestiwn pwysig yna. Mae hi'n iawn i dynnu sylw at swyddogaeth allweddol ymarferwyr adrannau llawdriniaeth o fewn y tîm llawfeddygol. Bydd hi'n gwybod o'i hymweliad ag Ysbyty Tywysoges Cymru nad staff yn unig yw'r her bresennol o ran theatrau llawdriniaeth, ond hefyd ymdrin â'r cyfyngiadau sy'n ofynnol yng nghyd-destun y coronafeirws ar gyfer sicrhau arfer diogel. Bydd hi wedi clywed, rwy'n siŵr, yn uniongyrchol gan staff am sut y mae'n rhaid glanhau theatrau yn drylwyr rhwng pob llawdriniaeth, o ran sut yr oedd rhai llawdriniaethau - lle'r oedd hi'n bosibl cael rhestr lawdriniaeth yn cynnwys wyth llawdriniaeth mewn diwrnod, dim ond tri mewn diwrnod y gallan nhw eu cyflawni ar hyn o bryd, hyd yn oed pan fyddan nhw wedi eu staffio yn llawn, oherwydd cyfyngiadau coronafeirws. Serch hynny, mae yn llygad ei lle wrth nodi bod ymarferwyr adrannau llawdriniaeth yn allweddol. Bydd hi'n gwybod ein bod ni eisoes wedi cyhoeddi buddsoddiad ychwanegol o £100 miliwn yn y gwasanaeth iechyd yma yng Nghymru i'w helpu gyda'r adferiad yn sgil y pandemig, ac mae hynny eisoes yn helpu i recriwtio staff theatr ychwanegol. Ond fe wnaeth yr Aelod bwynt pwysig arall: nid yw'n fater syml o recriwtio mwy o staff sydd eisoes wedi'u hyfforddi; mae angen gwneud yn siŵr hefyd bod y system hyfforddi yng Nghymru yn cynhyrchu'r staff y bydd eu hangen arnom ni ar gyfer y dyfodol. Ac mae Addysg a Gwella Iechyd Cymru wedi nodi ei gynlluniau i wneud hynny. Mae ganddo gynlluniau uchelgeisiol i gynyddu nifer y meddygon, ond hefyd yr holl bobl eraill hynny y mae'r gwasanaeth iechyd yn dibynnu arnyn nhw, ac mae ymarferwyr adrannau llawdriniaeth ymhlith y bobl hynny.