English: Llywydd, I completely reject the characterisation that the leader of the opposition has made, and he should know better. It is utterly irresponsible of him to misrepresent the advice not of the Welsh Government, but of the Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Wales and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales. I have their letter in front of me and it does not in any way bear out the accusations that the leader of the opposition has just made. It refers throughout to safe discharge. But, what it does is to say to the system that the system has to attend to the balance of risk across all of those people for whom it seeks to provide care. We have people, as he well knows and often puts to me on the floor of the Senedd, who are struggling to get access to the front door of this system, often people with very significant needs. At the other end of the system, prior to Christmas, we had 1,200 patients in a health service bed in Wales who were medically fit to be discharged. Now, what the letter from the deputy chief medical officer and the Chief Nursing Officer for Wales does is to say to health boards that they have to balance those risks. If there are patients in a hospital bed waiting for tests to be done, they could be safely discharged and called back in when those tests are available. It may be that not every element of a care package is in place, but the care package that is there is safe enough to allow discharge to take place. Instead of a culture of perfection around discharge, and the culture of crisis at the front door of a hospital, the letter seeks to rebalance that and to do it in a clinically responsible way. That was good advice to the health service in Wales; you will find parallel advice being prepared in other parts of the United Kingdom. I support what the chief nursing officer and the deputy chief medical officer have said to the service, and I think it will result in better care for many patients, who otherwise - with very critical needs - find themselves waiting too long to get access to the front door of a hospital.
Welsh: Llywydd, rwy'n gwrthod yn llwyr y cymeriadu a wnaeth arweinydd yr wrthblaid, a dylai wybod yn well. Mae'n gwbl anghyfrifol yn camgyfleu'r cyngor, nid gan Lywodraeth Cymru, ond gan Ddirprwy Brif Swyddog Meddygol Cymru a Phrif Swyddog Nyrsio Cymru. Mae gennyf eu llythyr yma o fy mlaen i ac nid yw mewn unrhyw ffordd yn cadarnhau'r cyhuddiadau y mae arweinydd yr wrthblaid newydd eu gwneud. Mae'n cyfeirio drwyddo draw at ryddhau diogel. Ond, yr hyn y mae'n ei wneud yw dweud wrth y system bod yn rhaid i'r system ymdrin â'r cydbwysedd risg ar draws yr holl bobl hynny y mae'n ceisio darparu gofal ar eu cyfer. Mae gennym ni bobl, fel mae e'n gwybod yn iawn ac fel mae'n fy atgoffa i ar lawr y Senedd yn aml, sy'n ei chael hi'n anodd cael mynediad at ddrws ffrynt y system hon, yn aml, pobl ag anghenion sylweddol iawn. Ar ben arall y system, cyn y Nadolig, roedd gennym 1,200 o gleifion mewn gwelyau gwasanaeth iechyd yng Nghymru a oedd yn ddigon iach yn feddygol i gael eu rhyddhau. Nawr, yr hyn y mae llythyr y dirprwy brif swyddog meddygol a phrif swyddog nyrsio Cymru yn ei wneud yw dweud wrth y byrddau iechyd bod yn rhaid iddyn nhw gydbwyso'r risgiau hynny. Os oes cleifion mewn gwelyau ysbyty sy'n aros am brofion, gallent gael eu rhyddhau'n ddiogel a'u galw'n ôl i mewn pan fydd y profion hynny ar gael. Efallai nad yw pob elfen o becyn gofal yn ei le, ond mae'r pecyn gofal sydd yno'n ddigon diogel i ganiatáu rhyddhau cleifion. Yn hytrach na diwylliant o berffeithrwydd ynghylch rhyddhau, a diwylliant o argyfwng wrth ddrws ffrynt ysbyty, mae'r llythyr yn ceisio ailgydbwyso hynny a'i wneud mewn ffordd glinigol gyfrifol. Roedd hwnnw'n gyngor da i'r gwasanaeth iechyd yng Nghymru; fe welwch gyngor cyfochrog yn cael ei baratoi mewn rhannau eraill o'r Deyrnas Unedig. Rwy'n cefnogi'r hyn y mae'r prif swyddog nyrsio a'r dirprwy brif swyddog meddygol wedi ei ddweud wrth y gwasanaeth, ac rwy'n credu y bydd yn arwain at well gofal i lawer o gleifion, sydd fel arall - ag anghenion critigol iawn - yn cael eu hunain yn aros yn rhy hir i gael mynediad at ddrws ffrynt ysbyty.