English: I rise to speak to the motion today because of the solidarity I want to show with those people who are campaigning for their hospital services in south Wales at the moment, particularly in terms of the emergency department at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. I've been there, I've done that, I've got the T-shirt, and I've got the scars to show it: for the campaign, which was a cross-party campaign, that we had to have in order to save our maternity services in north Wales. The tall and short of the lesson that I learned in that campaign was that you only ever get the right result when Ministers actually intervene, because that was the situation for us. We were told that services were unsafe and unstable; they had been made unsafe and unstable because of the uncertainty surrounding the future of those services, which is exactly the same case as the situation at the Royal Glamorgan's emergency department right now. The situation was so unstable, we were told that the service would have to close, and there were plans, of course, then to change those services and remove the consultant-led maternity services from Glan Clwyd Hospital, as was the case at the time. It took thousands of people marching on the streets - tens of thousands; it took tens of thousands of people signing letters and signing petitions in order to make their voice heard; and it took politicians putting their party politics aside, embracing one another and standing shoulder to shoulder in order to campaign for those services to be retained. Because of that action, that concerted action on a cross-party basis, the then First Minister did actually decide to intervene. And we look to you today as health Minister here in Wales, Vaughan Gething, and we plead with you to be brave enough to challenge the information that's been put before you and to listen to the chorus of voices that was chanting outside of the Senedd earlier on this afternoon, calling for the sitaution to be resolved through your intervention, because I don't believe that it will be resolved without it. I want to talk just for a few moments about the fragility of emergency departments, not just in south Wales at the Royal Glamorgan, but of course elsewhere in the country. We know that we have a 95 per cent target for people to be in and out of emergency departments within four hours. Regrettably, that target has never been met. In fact, the situation in terms of the worst performance against that target is, unfortunately, in north Wales. The poorest performing hospital in north Wales at the moment is Wrexham Maelor, which has been breaking records across the whole of the NHS, UK wide. You've got just a one in two chance of getting out of that emergency department within that four-hour target at the moment in Wrexham Maelor Hospital, and a slightly better chance at Glan Clwyd, but still one in two. Two out of 10 people at Glan Clwyd Hospital will wait more than 12 hours - two out of 10. One in five people who walks through the door in an emergency situation will not be discharged for at least 12 hours. Now, we know that it's a combination of things that gives rise to these appalling performance statistics. One of them, as has already been referred to, is the number of beds in a hospital. We've seen, over the past decade, certainly in north Wales, one in four beds have been axed from our hospitals. That's bound to have pressure at the front door, which is the emergency department, because if you can't discharge a person from the emergency department into a hospital bed when they need one, then unfortunately they're going to clog the front end of the hospital. Of course, that leads on to problems then with our ambulance services, because ambulances arrive, they want to discharge patients into the emergency department so that they can get off to respond to the next call, and they're unable to do so. As a result of that, unfortunately, we've seen patients dying while waiting for ambulances, and sometimes facing the indignity of dying in car parks in the back of ambulances outside of our hospital front doors, when the assistance they need is just yards away. It is absolutely frightening. So, we need extra resources in our national health service, more beds in our hospitals, and we need you, Minister, to intervene in this situation in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and stand shoulder to shoulder with your colleagues on the backbenches - and I take my hat off to each and every one of them today for challenging your Government over this. We will continue to campaign with those people who were marching outside the Senedd today until we know that the future of these services is secure.
Welsh: Codaf i siarad am y cynnig heddiw oherwydd yr undod yr hoffwn ei ddangos gyda'r bobl hynny sy'n ymgyrchu dros eu gwasanaethau ysbyty yn ne Cymru ar hyn o bryd, yn enwedig mewn perthynas â'r adran achosion brys yn Ysbyty Brenhinol Morgannwg. Rwyf wedi bod yno, wedi gwneud hynny, mae gennyf y crys-T, ac mae gennyf y creithiau i ddangos hynny: yr ymgyrch, a oedd yn ymgyrch drawsbleidiol, y bu'n rhaid i ni ei chael er mwyn achub ein gwasanaethau mamolaeth yng ngogledd Cymru. Hyd a lled y wers a ddysgais yn yr ymgyrch honno oedd mai dim ond pan fydd Gweinidogion yn ymyrryd y byddwch yn cael y canlyniad cywir mewn gwirionedd, gan mai dyna oedd y sefyllfa i ni. Dywedwyd wrthym fod gwasanaethau'n anniogel ac yn ansefydlog; fe'u gwnaed yn anniogel ac yn ansefydlog oherwydd yr ansicrwydd ynghylch dyfodol y gwasanaethau hynny, sy'n union yr un peth â'r sefyllfa yn adran achosion brys Ysbyty Brenhinol Morgannwg ar hyn o bryd. Roedd y sefyllfa mor ansefydlog, dywedwyd wrthym y byddai'n rhaid i'r gwasanaeth gau, ac roedd cynlluniau wedyn, wrth gwrs, i newid y gwasanaethau hynny a chael gwared ar y gwasanaethau mamolaeth dan arweiniad meddygon ymgynghorol o Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, fel oedd hi ar y pryd. Bu'n rhaid i filoedd o bobl orymdeithio ar y strydoedd - degau o filoedd; bu'n rhaid i ddegau o filoedd o bobl lofnodi llythyrau a llofnodi deisebau er mwyn sicrhau bod eu llais yn cael ei glywed; a bu'n rhaid i wleidyddion roi gwleidyddiaeth bleidiol o'r neilltu, a chroesawu ei gilydd a sefyll ochr yn ochr er mwyn ymgyrchu dros gadw'r gwasanaethau hynny. Oherwydd gweithredu o'r fath, gweithredu cydunol ar sail drawsbleidiol, penderfynodd y Prif Weinidog ar y pryd ymyrryd. Ac edrychwn tuag atoch chi heddiw fel Gweinidog iechyd yma yng Nghymru, Vaughan Gething, ac rydym yn erfyn arnoch i fod yn ddigon dewr i herio'r wybodaeth a gyflwynwyd i chi ac i wrando ar y corws o leisiau a fu'n siantio y tu allan i'r Senedd yn gynharach y prynhawn yma, yn galw am eich ymyrraeth i ddatrys y broblem, gan na chredaf y caiff ei datrys fel arall. Hoffwn siarad am ychydig eiliadau'n unig am ba mor fregus yw adrannau brys, nid yn unig yn ne Cymru yn Ysbyty Brenhinol Morgannwg, ond mewn rhannau eraill o'r wlad, wrth gwrs. Gwyddom fod gennym darged o 95 y cant i bobl fod i mewn ac allan o adrannau brys o fewn pedair awr. Yn anffodus, nid yw'r targed hwnnw wedi'i gyrraedd erioed. Mewn gwirionedd, yn anffodus, mae'r sefyllfa o ran y perfformiad gwaethaf yn erbyn y targed hwnnw yng ngogledd Cymru. Yr ysbyty sy'n perfformio waethaf yng ngogledd Cymru ar hyn o bryd yw Ysbyty Maelor Wrecsam, sydd wedi bod yn gwneud yn waeth nag unrhyw le arall ar draws y GIG cyfan, ledled y DU. Mae eich gobaith o adael yr adran achosion brys o fewn y targed pedair awr ar hyn o bryd yn Ysbyty Maelor Wrecsam yn 50 y cant, ac nid yw fawr gwell yng Nglan Clwyd, ond yn dal i fod tua 50 y cant. Bydd dau o bob 10 o bobl yn Ysbyty Glan Clwyd yn aros mwy na 12 awr - dau o bob 10. Ni fydd un o bob pump o bobl sy'n dod drwy'r drws mewn argyfwng yn cael eu rhyddhau am o leiaf 12 awr. Nawr, gwyddom fod cyfuniad o bethau'n arwain at yr ystadegau perfformiad echrydus hyn. Un ohonynt, fel y nodwyd eisoes, yw nifer y gwelyau mewn ysbyty. Dros y degawd diwethaf, yn sicr yng ngogledd Cymru, rydym wedi gweld bod un o bob pedwar gwely wedi cael eu golli o'n hysbytai. Mae hynny'n sicr o arwain at bwysau wrth ddrws blaen yr ysbyty, sef yr adran achosion brys, oherwydd os na allwch ryddhau unigolyn o'r adran achosion brys i wely ysbyty pan fydd angen un arnynt, yna yn anffodus, maent yn mynd i achosi tagfeydd ar ben blaen yr ysbyty. Wrth gwrs, mae hynny'n arwain at broblemau wedyn gyda'n gwasanaethau ambiwlans, gan fod ambiwlansys yn cyrraedd, maent am ryddhau cleifion i'r adran achosion brys fel y gallant ymateb i'r alwad nesaf, ac ni allant wneud hynny. O ganlyniad i hynny, yn anffodus, rydym wedi gweld cleifion yn marw wrth aros am ambiwlansys, ac weithiau'n wynebu'r sarhad o farw mewn meysydd parcio mewn ambiwlansys y tu allan i ddrysau blaen ein hysbytai, pan fydd y cymorth sydd ei angen arnynt ychydig lathenni i ffwrdd. Mae'n hollol frawychus. Felly, mae arnom angen adnoddau ychwanegol yn ein gwasanaeth iechyd gwladol, mwy o welyau yn ein hysbytai, ac mae angen i chi, Weinidog, ymyrryd yn y sefyllfa hon yn Ysbyty Brenhinol Morgannwg a sefyll ochr yn ochr â'ch cyd-Aelodau ar y meinciau cefn - a chodaf fy het i bob un ohonynt heddiw am herio'ch Llywodraeth ar hyn. Byddwn yn parhau i ymgyrchu gyda'r bobl a fu'n gorymdeithio y tu allan i'r Senedd heddiw hyd nes y gwyddom fod dyfodol y gwasanaethau hyn yn ddiogel.