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Cwestiynau Ysgrifenedig y Cynulliad a gyflwynwyd ar 29 Mehefin 2015 i'w hateb ar 6 Gorffennaf 2015

R - Yn dynodi bod yr Aelod wedi datgan buddiant.
W - Yn dynodi bod y cwestiwn wedi'i gyflwyno yn Gymraeg.

(Dangosir rhif gwreiddiol y Cwestiwn mewn cromfachau)

Rhaid cyflwyno Cwestiynau Ysgrifenedig o leiaf bum diwrnod gwaith cyn y disgwylir iddynt gael eu hateb.  Yn ymarferol, bydd Gweinidogion yn ceisio ateb o fewn saith neu wyth diwrnod ond nid oes rheidrwydd arnynt i wneud hynny.  Caiff yr atebion eu cyhoeddi yn yr iaith y maent yn cael eu darparu, gyda chyfieithiad i'r Saesneg o ymatebion a ddarperir yn Gymraeg.

Gofyn i'r Gweinidog Addysg a Sgiliau

Aled Roberts (Gogledd Cymru): A wnaiff y Gweinidog ddarparu mwy o fanylion am ymgyrch gyfathrebu'r Grant Amddifadedd Disgyblion, a oedd yn cynnwys Dysgu Cymru, Dysg a Twitter? (WAQ68886)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 7 Mehefin 2015

Gweinidog Addysg a Sgiliau (Huw Lewis):

The Welsh Government has a proactive communications plan in place to help practitioners maximise the coverage and effectiveness of their Pupil Deprivation Grant (PDG) allocations. Guidance for schools is available on the Welsh Government corporate website and Learning Wales:

http://gov.wales/topics/educationandskills/schoolshome/deprivation/pdg-and-early-years-pdg/?lang=en

http://learning.gov.wales/resources/browse-all/pdg-what-really-works/?lang=en

http://learning.gov.wales/deprivation

We use Dysg and Twitter to reach school practitioners, sending up to 10 tweets and at least 2 Dysg articles per month to raise and maintain their focus on tackling the impact of deprivation in schools, and to direct them to the guidance materials that we provide on our websites. This is clearly working as we see spikes in the number of users using the PDG resources.

We closely monitor the uptake of the PDG guidance resources. The number of users has been steadily increasing from around 1,000 per month last autumn to over 3,000 in May of this year.

Our communications strategy for tackling the impact of deprivation, and use of the PDG employs a number of additional methods:

• direct engagement with school practitioners, via school visits, focus groups, webinars, workshops and conferences;
• communications with school governors via their local authority and Governors Wales networks;
• working with stakeholders to develop a shared agenda around tackling the impacts of poverty on educational outcomes, including local authorities, regional consortia, Estyn, teaching unions, early years providers, Flying Start centres, Community First clusters, and third sector organisations;
• visits and presentations made by our Raising Attainment advocate Sir Alasdair McDonald;
• provision of professional development materials for school practitioners;
• Young Digital Researchers project to hear directly from children and young people from deprived backgrounds.

Gofyn i'r Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol

Lynne Neagle (Torfaen): Pa gynlluniau sydd gan y Gweinidog ar gyfer hapwiriadau pellach mewn wardiau iechyd meddwl pobl hŷn na gafodd eu harolygu o dan hapwiriadau blaenorol? (WAQ68884)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 7 Mehefin 2015

Gweinidog Iechyd a Gwasanaethau Cymdeithasol (Mark Drakeford):  The spot check programme covered almost half the older people's mental health wards in Wales. We are working with health boards to ensure issues identified in the spot checks have been dealt with and lessons learned adopted across all the relevant wards in Wales.   

We have asked health boards  to carry out their own spot checks of the remaining mental health wards, applying the same methodology, to check the quality and safety of the care.

Further monitoring will continue to be undertaken by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales and community health councils.

Lynne Neagle (Torfaen): Yn dilyn cyhoeddi adroddiadau ar hapwiriadau o wardiau iechyd meddwl pobl hŷn yng Nghymru, pa gamau y bydd y Gweinidog yn eu cymryd i sicrhau bod gwersi a ddysgwyd yn cael eu rhoi ar waith yn holl wardiau iechyd meddwl pobl hŷn yng Nghymru? (WAQ68885)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 7 Mehefin 2015

Mark Drakeford:  The spot checks revealed areas of good and excellent practice across Wales as well as areas which required improvement. Where immediate concerns were highlighted, these were shared with health board executive directors and an immediate action plan was requested in response.

A national conference was held in March to ensure the findings, key messages and best practice were shared quickly with the NHS mental health leads and clinicians. Public Health Wales is setting up an older people's mental health community of practice so best practice and innovation can be shared across Wales. A follow up conference to report on progress will be held later this year.

In response to some of key findings from the spot checks, more than £5m a year will be invested in the NHS to provide psychiatric liaison services in hospitals and ensure daily activities are available on all older people's mental health wards.

New guidance has been issued to Welsh Health Estates to ensure that, in future, all wards are designed to be older person friendly and incorporate appropriate, evidence-based improvements. 

Darren Millar (Gorllewin Clwyd): Pa asesiad y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i wneud o ganran y cleifion canser pancreatig sydd newydd gael diagnosis y mae eu triniaeth yn dechrau o fewn 62 ddiwrnod? (WAQ68887)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 10 Gorffennaf 2015

Mark Drakeford: The percentage of newly-diagnosed pancreatic cancer patients starting treatment within 62 days is not held centrally by the Welsh Government.

Darren Millar (Gorllewin Clwyd): Pa asesiad y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i wneud o'r nifer o weithiau ar gyfartaledd yr oedd yn rhaid i gleifion canser y pancreas ymweld â'u meddygon teulu cyn cael eu cyfeirio at ysbytai o'u cymharu â chleifion mathau eraill o ganser? (WAQ68888)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 10 Gorffennaf 2015

Mark Drakeford: The Welsh Government does not collect this information centrally.

Pancreatic Cancer UK has published information about the average number of times someone with pancreatic cancer patient visits their GP before diagnosis compared to other cancers in its diagnostic manifesto for Wales.

My officials have met Pancreatic Cancer UK to discuss early diagnosis for pancreatic cancer.

Darren Millar (Gorllewin Clwyd): Pa asesiad y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i wneud o'r canllawiau atgyfeirio newydd ar achosion pan fo amheuaeth o ganser gan y Sefydliad Cenedlaethol dros Ragoriaeth mewn Iechyd a Gofal (NICE) ac a fydd canllawiau yn cael eu cyflwyno yng Nghymru? (WAQ68889)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 7 Mehefin 2015

Mark Drakeford: NICE issues all new guidelines directly to health boards and NHS trusts. The Welsh Government reinforces this with weekly bulletins via NHS Wales' NICE liaison group to aid dissemination through the health service.

All NICE guidelines should be considered by the health service and individual clinicians from the time they are made available.

We recognise the ambition of these guidelines to improve early diagnosis. We have launched, with Macmillan Cancer Support, a £3m programme to support primary care in cancer services. The primary care oncology programme will consider these guidelines as part of its work. 

Darren Millar (Gorllewin Clwyd): Pa asesiad y mae'r Gweinidog wedi'i wneud o argaeledd gwelyau uned dibyniaeth uchel yng Nghymru o'i gymharu ag a) gweddill y DU a b) gwledydd eraill yr UE? (WAQ68890)

Derbyniwyd ateb ar 7 Mehefin 2015

Mark Drakeford:  An assessment of critical care in Wales was published last summer. It is available at:   

http://gov.wales/topics/health/nhswales/plans/delivery-plan/?lang=en