English: And this is what we're seeing today. Back in 1989, there were almost 20,000 hospital beds in Wales working at a capacity of around 77 per cent. By today, the numbers have halved to around 10,000 beds and are working to a capacity of 87 per cent, and that's been the case consistently over the past 10 years. And this pandemic, of course, has exacerbated the problems. Many of our community hospitals were closed because of a failure to maintain the beds with the required number of nurses, which brings us back to that fundamental weakness in our secondary healthcare system: a shortage of staff leads to a system that is struggling, as we are seeing today. With an ageing population, a tired workforce and delays in diagnostics and treatments because of the pandemic, we need more professional health workers more than ever. So, what can we do? The first solution, of course, is to invest in preventative services to keep people healthy and out of our hospitals in the first instance. But the main issues that led us to introduce this amendment and that will strengthen the foundations of our healthcare system is the need to integrate health and care services and to train and recruit 6,000 additional staff. And I thank Russell George for stating that his party will support our amendment. In terms of the health and care service, we need to take steps to plan the workforce, including attracting and keeping practitioners and paying social care staff health service wages. We should launch a national review to establish statutory care standards in care homes, and we need a commitment to plan immediately to scrap social care charges. We need to recruit 6,000 additional staff, as I mentioned, and we need to develop a five-year plan, which includes incentives for GPs, the creation of more GP roles, the creation of a recruitment and retention strategy for nurses, and investment in our medical schools. It's fair to say that we all appreciate our health and care services more than ever before. We have seen for ourselves the selflessness of the staff who have travelled that extra mile day after day to keep us all safe, to save lives and to care for the most vulnerable in our communities. But we are also seeing the fragility and the inability of those services, the lack of investment that's led to an overreliance -
Welsh: A dyna rydyn ni'n ei weld heddiw. Nôl ym 1989, roedd bron i 20,000 o welyau ysbyty yng Nghymru yn gweithio ar gapasiti o tua 77 y cant. Erbyn heddiw, mae'r niferoedd wedi'u haneru i tua 10,000 o welyau ac yn gweithio ar gapasiti o 87 y cant, yn gyson dros y 10 mlynedd diwethaf. Ac, wrth gwrs, mae'r pandemig yma wedi gwneud pethau llawer iawn yn waeth. Caewyd nifer o'r ysbytai cymunedol oherwydd methiant i gynnal y gwelyau efo'r nifer angenrheidiol o nyrsys, sy'n dod â ni nôl at y gwendid sylfaenol yn y system iechyd eilradd: mae prinder staff yn arwain at system sy'n gwegian, fel rydyn ni'n ei weld heddiw. Gyda phoblogaeth yn heneiddio, gweithlu blinedig ac oedi mewn diagnostig a thriniaethau oherwydd y pandemig, mae angen mwy o weithwyr gofal iechyd proffesiynol ar Gymru yn fwy nag erioed. Felly, beth allwn ni ei wneud? Yr ateb cyntaf, wrth gwrs, ydy buddsoddi yn ataliol mewn gwasanaethau i gadw pobl yn iach ac allan o'r ysbyty yn y lle cyntaf. Ond y prif bethau sy'n peri imi droi at ein gwelliannau ni a fydd yn cryfhau sylfaen ein system iechyd ydy'r angen i integreiddio gwasanaethau iechyd a hyfforddi a recriwtio 6,000 o staff ychwanegol. A dwi'n diolch i Russell George am ddatgan y bydd ei blaid o yn cefnogi'r gwelliant. O ran y gwasanaeth iechyd a gofal, mae angen cymryd camau i gynllunio'r gweithlu, gan gynnwys denu a chadw ymarferwyr a gosod staff gofal cymdeithasol ar gyflogau'r gwasanaeth iechyd. Dylid lansio adolygiad cenedlaethol i sefydlu safonau gofal gofynnol mewn cartrefi gofal, ac mae angen ymrwymiad i gynllunio ar unwaith ar gyfer diddymu taliadau gofal cymdeithasol. Mae angen recriwtio 6,000 o staff newydd, fel y soniais i, ac mae angen datblygu cynllun pum mlynedd sy'n cynnwys cymelliadau i feddygon teulu, creu mwy o swyddi meddygon teulu, creu strategaeth cadw a chefnogi nyrsys, a buddsoddi yn ein hysgolion meddygol. Mae'n deg i ddweud ein bod ni i gyd yn gwerthfawrogi ein gwasanaethau iechyd a gofal yn fwy nag erioed o'r blaen. Rydyn ni'n gweld drosom ni ein hunain anhunanoldeb y staff sydd wedi mynd yr ail filltir ddydd ar ôl dydd i'n cadw'n ddiogel, i achub bywydau ac i ofalu am y rhai mwyaf bregus yn ein cymuned. Ond rydyn ni hefyd yn gweld eiddilwch a diffyg gallu'r gwasanaethau hynny, y diffyg buddsoddiad a arweiniodd at orddibyniaeth -