Gofal iechyd

Gweithwyr/Gweithwragedd iechyd proffesiynol

Paratoir gofal iechyd yn y Deyrnas Unedig gan y Gwasanaeth Iechyd Gwladol yn bennaf, gwasanaeth a ariennir yn wladol ac a sefydlwyd ychydig dros 50 mlynedd yn ôl. Y GIG yw’r mudiad mwyaf yn Ewrop ac mae’n cyflogi llawer o wahanol weithwyr a gweithwragedd iechyd a staff eraill.

Cynhwysir Powys o fewn Awdurdod Iechyd Dyfed Powys. Mae’r Awdurdod yn gwasanaethu ardal sy’n cynnwys hanner holl dir Cymru, a mwy na 470,000 o’i thrigolion.

Dyma batrwm diwrnod gwaith un meddyg teulu (mewn meddygfa gyffredinol).

Ar ddiwedd un diwrnod gwaith, dyma a ddywed un deintydd yn Sir Drefaldwyn

• 5.15 35 patients seen in course of day

Mae un arall yn therapydd galwedigaethol, ac mae hi’n disgrifio’i gwaith:

• Having dropped the children at school I continued to work at the Community Mental health Team in . . . . where I work two days a week as an occupational therapist, helping people with a variety of mental health problems to reduce the impact of these problems on the everyday lives and enable them to achieve meaningful lifestyles. I have only two weeks left with the team as I am leaving to take up post in Learning Disabilities at the beginning of October.
  
  I spent the first hour of the day liasing with colleagues, much of it discussing the various pressures on the team, and dealing with messages received since I was last in work on Friday. After that I set out on my visits, I fitted in 5 visits, 3 of which were my final visits with these people, with 2 being discharged from the team, one of these was a real success story which gave me a boost. I returned to the office at 4.30 made a couple of phone calls and finished work just after 5pm.

I derfynu, enghraifft arall o’r newid mewn gofal iechyd yw datblygu cyffuriau a moddion newydd. Dywedodd un gwyddonydd

• Posted letter in village then started 120 miles drive to Coventry to work. I run clinical trials into new medicines and was visiting a GP surgery in Coventry which is trialing a new treatment for Arthritis.