English: Of course, the performance of some health boards in recent years perhaps makes it more difficult to recruit staff, in areas like north Wales in particular. Nevertheless, that can't be the whole answer to this difficulty, because the same problem is seen with locums for GPs as it is for NHS staff in other areas of professional activity. For example, in relation to Blaenau Ffestiniog, the Healthcare Inspectorate Wales 2017 report said that GP recruitment there still had significant issues because there was considerable reliance on locums and improvement was needed. Well, on the Primary Care Professionals website today, there is an advertisement for 32 GP jobs in Blaenau Ffestiniog, 22 of which are for locums. So, in 16 months since that healthcare inspectorate report of 2017 till today, there's been very, very little change. On page 39 of that report, it said that the assistant area director of primary care and primary care development manager, by 31 January 2018 - that's a year ago - should increase the availability of salaried GPs through recruitment to reduce frequent change in staff and locums available to complete their own tasks. So, when are we actually going to see some significant progress not just in relation to agency staff in hospitals, but also in the recruitment of GPs to serve areas that have relied far too long upon locums chopping and changing? Most patients want to see their regular GP; they don't want to be in a situation where every time they go to the surgery they're seeing somebody new.
Welsh: Wrth gwrs, mae perfformiad rhai byrddau iechyd dros y blynyddoedd diwethaf yn ei gwneud yn anos recriwtio staff o bosibl, yn enwedig mewn ardaloedd fel gogledd Cymru. Serch hynny, ni ellir dweud mai dyna'r unig reswm dros yr anhawster, gan fod yr un broblem i'w gweld gyda staff locwm meddygon teulu ag sydd i'w gweld ymhlith staff y GIG mewn meysydd eraill o weithgarwch proffesiynol. Er enghraifft, o ran Blaenau Ffestiniog, dywedodd adroddiad Arolygiaeth Gofal Iechyd Cymru 2017 eu bod yn dal i wynebu problemau sylweddol yno mewn perthynas â recriwtio meddygon teulu gan fod yno gryn ddibyniaeth ar feddygon locwm, ac roedd angen gwella. Wel, ar wefan Primary Care Professionals heddiw, ceir hysbyseb ar gyfer 32 o swyddi meddygon teulu ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog, gyda 22 ohonynt ar gyfer staff locwm. Felly, yn yr 16 mis rhwng adroddiad yr arolygiaeth gofal iechyd yn 2017 a heddiw, ychydig iawn o newid a fu. Ar dudalen 39 o'r adroddiad hwnnw, roedd yn dweud y dylai'r cyfarwyddwr ardal cynorthwyol ar gyfer gofal sylfaenol a'r rheolwr datblygu gofal sylfaenol, erbyn 31 Ionawr 2018 - flwyddyn yn ôl - gynyddu argaeledd meddygon teulu cyflogedig drwy recriwtio er mwyn lleihau newidiadau mynych yn niferoedd y staff a'r staff locwm sydd ar gael i gwblhau eu tasgau eu hunain. Felly, pryd y byddwn yn gweld cynnydd sylweddol, nid yn unig o ran staff asiantaeth mewn ysbytai, ond hefyd o ran recriwtio meddygon teulu i wasanaethu ardaloedd sydd wedi dibynnu'n rhy hir o lawer ar staff locwm yn mynd a dod drwy'r amser? Mae'r rhan fwyaf o gleifion eisiau gweld eu meddyg teulu arferol; nid ydynt am fod mewn sefyllfa lle maent yn gweld rhywun newydd bob tro y maent yn mynd i'r feddygfa.