Since becoming your MP I have received nearly 1,500 letters and emails concerning inadequate health provision. That is why, although the NHS in Wales is devolved to the Welsh Government. I recognise that it is important that I push for improvements to your concerns about ambulance waiting times, understaffing, poor mental health services and and other failures in the health system.
I have a background in health and that is why I:
- Meet regularly with the Chief Executive and top team of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) to highlight issues and identify solutions.
- Worked closely with the team representing Hwb Iechyd Cybi to recruit GPs where some of the most acute GP shortages on the island have been affecting the patient experience.
- Wrote to the Ministers at the MoD on behalf of the Welsh Ambulance Service when they needed additional armed forces resource to staff ambulances in the winter.
- Assisted with the introduction of local Covid vaccination clinics when GP surgeries were struggling to meet targets.
- Launched successful campaigns on mental health first aid and to bring defibrillators and defibrillator training to Anglesey.
I know that the NHS teams on the ground are doing what they can to treat local people, and I offer my sincere thanks for their hard work, but they are delivering services against a backdrop of extreme underfunding. For that reason I will continue to press for the best health services for local people.
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Ers dod yn AS, rwyf wedi cael bron i 1,500 o lythyrau a negeseuon e-bost yn ymwneud â darpariaeth iechyd annigonol. Dyna pam, er bod y GIG yng Nghymru wedi’i ddatganoli i Lywodraeth Cymru, rwyf yn cydnabod ei bod yn bwysig imi bwyso am welliannau i’ch pryderon ynghylch amseroedd aros am ambiwlansys, prinder staff, gwasanaethau iechyd meddwl gwael a methiannau eraill yn y system iechyd.
Mae gen i gefndir ym maes iechyd a dyna pam rydw i’n cymryd y camau canlynol:
- Cwrdd yn rheolaidd â’r Prif Weithredwr ac uwch dîm Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Betsi Cadwaladr i dynnu sylw at broblemau a chanfod atebion.
- Gweithio’n agos gyda’r tîm sy’n cynrychioli Hwb Iechyd Cybi i recriwtio meddygon teulu ar gyfer ardaloedd lle mae’r prinder mwyaf difrifol ar yr ynys wedi bod yn effeithio ar brofiad y claf.
- Ysgrifennu at y Gweinidogion yn y Weinyddiaeth Amddiffyn ar ran Gwasanaeth Ambiwlans Cymru pan oedd arnynt angen adnoddau ychwanegol gan y lluoedd arfog i staffio ambiwlansiau yn y gaeaf.
- Rhoi cymorth i gyflwyno clinigau brechu Covid lleol pan oedd meddygfeydd yn ei chael hi’n anodd cyrraedd y targedau.
- Lansio ymgyrchoedd llwyddiannus ar gymorth cyntaf iechyd meddwl a dod â diffibrilwyr a hyfforddiant ar gyfer eu defnyddio i Ynys Môn.
Rwy’n gwybod bod timau’r GIG ar lawr gwlad yn gwneud popeth o fewn eu gallu i drin pobl leol, ac rwy’n diolch o waelod calon iddynt am eu gwaith caled, ond maent yn darparu gwasanaethau mewn cyd-destun o danariannu eithafol. Am y rheswm hwnnw, byddaf yn parhau i bwyso am y gwasanaethau iechyd gorau i bobl leol.
