English: I thank the Member for that question, Llywydd. Very long waits in Wales continue to fall as well. They were 4 per cent down in the last month for which figures are available. A word of caution about assuming that everything is fine in any other part of the United Kingdom in relation to the NHS, and some of the claims that are made: when you look at the exceptions that lie behind them - 'We have achieved this, apart from this, apart from that, apart from the other' - I think the figures are not to be taken just at the headline value. As for surgical hubs, we have indeed discussed them here before. The leader of the opposition will know that there are particular geographical challenges in Wales in identifying any hospital as being given over entirely to planned surgery, because those hospitals continue to provide necessary emergency responses as well. Nevertheless, there are efforts in different parts of the NHS in Wales to try to concentrate more planned surgery on a smaller number of sites in order to be able to protect the resources - the theatre space, the ward space - to allow planned surgery to go ahead. At the orthopaedic summit, a whole range of these issues was discussed. How can we, in orthopaedics, make better use of things that prevent people from needing operations in the first place? If you are waiting for an operation, what more can be done to make sure, through physiotherapy and so on, that you can be looked after while you are waiting? As we emerge from the COVID experience, what more can we do to return theatres to the level of productivity that they were able to manage before the additional cleaning regimes became necessary to prevent the spread of the virus? All of these things were discussed and the Minister, as I said, will provide more details of it. In parts of Wales, as I said - in Hywel Dda, at the Prince Philip Hospital; in Swansea bay at the Neath Port Talbot Hospital - dedicated protected space is being provided. They are not surgical hubs in the way that that definition is used elsewhere, but they perform the same function.
Welsh: Diolch i'r Aelod am y cwestiwn yna, Llywydd. Mae arosiadau hir iawn yng Nghymru yn parhau i ostwng hefyd. Roedden nhw 4 y cant yn is yn ystod y mis diwethaf y mae ffigurau ar gael ar ei gyfer. Gair o rybudd am dybio bod popeth yn iawn mewn unrhyw ran arall o'r Deyrnas Unedig o ran y GIG, a rhai o'r honiadau sy'n cael eu gwneud: pan edrychwch ar yr eithriadau sydd y tu ôl iddyn nhw - 'Rydym ni wedi cyflawni hyn, ac eithrio hyn, ac eithrio hynna, ac eithrio'r llall' - rwy'n credu na ddylid derbyn y ffigurau ar sail y penawdau yn unig. O ran hybiau llawfeddygol, rydym ni yn wir wedi eu trafod nhw yma o'r blaen. Bydd arweinydd yr wrthblaid yn gwybod bod heriau daearyddol penodol yng Nghymru o ran neilltuo unrhyw ysbyty yn llwyr i lawdriniaeth wedi'i chynllunio, gan fod yr ysbytai hynny yn parhau i ddarparu ymatebion brys angenrheidiol hefyd. Serch hynny, mae ymdrechion mewn gwahanol rannau o'r GIG yng Nghymru i geisio canolbwyntio mwy o lawdriniaeth wedi'i chynllunio mewn nifer lai o safleoedd er mwyn gallu diogelu'r adnoddau - y lle mewn theatrau, y lle ar wardiau - i alluogi llawdriniaeth wedi'i chynllunio i ddigwydd. Yn yr uwchgynhadledd orthopedig, trafodwyd amrywiaeth eang o'r materion hyn. Sut gallwn ni, ym maes orthopaedeg, wneud gwell defnydd o bethau sy'n atal pobl rhag gorfod cael llawdriniaethau yn y lle cyntaf? Os ydych chi'n aros am lawdriniaeth, beth arall y gellir ei wneud i wneud yn siŵr, drwy ffisiotherapi ac yn y blaen, y gallwch chi gael gofal tra eich bod chi'n aros? Wrth i ni ddod allan o brofiad COVID, beth arall allwn ni ei wneud i ddychwelyd theatrau i lefel y cynhyrchiant yr oedden nhw'n gallu ei chyrraedd cyn i'r cyfundrefnau glanhau ychwanegol ddod yn angenrheidiol i atal lledaeniad y feirws? Trafodwyd yr holl bethau hyn a bydd y Gweinidog, fel y dywedais, yn rhoi mwy o fanylion amdanyn nhw. Mewn rhannau o Gymru, fel y dywedais i - yn Hywel Dda, yn Ysbyty'r Tywysog Phillip; ym mae Abertawe yn Ysbyty Castell-nedd Port Talbot - mae lle gwarchodedig penodol yn cael ei ddarparu. Nid ydyn nhw'n hybiau llawfeddygol yn y ffordd y defnyddir y diffiniad hwnnw mewn mannau eraill, ond maen nhw'n cyflawni'r un swyddogaeth.