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"Patient-first" Rapid Diagnosis Centre a success | "Claf-gyntaf" Canolfan Diagnosis Cyflym yn llwyddiant

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Wednesday, 4 March, 2020
Suzy at Neath Port-Talbot Hospital

Regional AM, Suzy Davies visited the Rapid Diagnosis Centre at Neath Port-Talbot Hospital to see this new UK-initiative at work.

 

The Rapid Diagnosis Centre, based in Baglan at Neath Port-Talbot Hospital first opened in June 2017. Here they look at improved ways of detecting and diagnosing potential cancer-patients at a much quicker rate.

 

For 50% of those with a suspected cancer, the early-symptoms may not be apparent.  This is where a GP’s ‘gut instinct’ will come in and lead to a referral to the Rapid Diagnosis Centre.

 

Some patients have had their results with a full treatment plan within 6 days of their referral, where most are seen within days of being referred.

 

Paying tribute to their work, Welsh Conservative AM for South Wales West, Suzy Davies said: “A cancer diagnosis is a source of dread. It was hugely reassuring to see this holistic and informed approach to tackling cancer diagnosis.

 

“The earlier cancer can be detected and treated, the higher the chance of making a full recovery, so I am really pleased to see this approach being used for the benefit of patients within Swansea Bay Health-Board”.

 

Mrs Davies added: “Unfortunately, those who do not display “prominent” signs of a potential cancer are currently downgraded and that can make-up up to half of those who are eventually diagnosed, leading to those patients waiting and suffering for longer”

 

“That is why I am delighted to see this new, forward-thinking and patient first approach being used in my region. To be able to see a GP, nurse and a radiologist all within the first session must be really re-assuring for patients and families”

 

The Rapid Diagnosis Centre takes referrals from GPs where they feel that a need for further examination is required. In the two-and-a-half-years since they opened, they have seen nearly 1000 patients bringing that much-needed patient-first attitude to the fore.

 

Ymwelodd Suzy Davies, AC rhanbarthol, â'r Ganolfan Diagnosis Cyflym yn Ysbyty Castell-nedd Port-Talbot i weld y fenter newydd hon yn y DU wrth ei gwaith.

 

Agorodd y Ganolfan Diagnosis Cyflym, a leolir ym Maglan yn Ysbyty Castell-nedd Port-Talbot gyntaf ym mis Mehefin 2017. Yma maent yn edrych ar ffyrdd gwell o ganfod a diagnosio darpar gleifion canser ar gyfradd llawer cyflymach.

 

Ar gyfer 50% o'r rhai sydd ag amheuaeth o ganser, efallai na fydd y symptomau cynnar yn amlwg. Dyma lle bydd ‘gut instinct’ meddyg teulu yn dod i mewn ac yn arwain at atgyfeiriad i’r Ganolfan Diagnosis Cyflym.

 

Mae rhai cleifion wedi cael eu canlyniadau gyda chynllun triniaeth lawn cyn pen 6 diwrnod ar ôl eu hatgyfeirio, lle mae'r mwyafrif yn cael eu gweld cyn pen dyddiau ar ôl cael eu cyfeirio.

 

Wrth dalu teyrnged i’w gwaith, dywedodd AC Ceidwadwyr Cymreig ar gyfer Gorllewin De Cymru, Suzy Davies: “Mae diagnosis canser yn destun ofn. Roedd yn galonogol iawn gweld y dull cyfannol a gwybodus hwn o fynd i'r afael â diagnosis canser.

 

“Po gynharaf y gellir canfod a thrin canser, po uchaf fydd y siawns o wella’n llwyr, felly rwy’n falch iawn o weld y dull hwn yn cael ei ddefnyddio er budd cleifion o fewn Bwrdd Iechyd Bae Abertawe”.

 

Ychwanegodd Mrs Davies: “Yn anffodus, mae’r rhai nad ydyn nhw’n arddangos arwyddion“ amlwg ”o ganser posib yn cael eu hisraddio ar hyn o bryd a gall hynny wneud hyd at hanner y rhai sy’n cael eu diagnosio yn y pen draw, gan arwain at y cleifion hynny yn aros ac yn dioddef yn hirach”

 

“Dyna pam rwy’n falch iawn o weld y dull newydd, blaengar hwn a chleifion yn gyntaf yn cael ei ddefnyddio yn fy rhanbarth. Er mwyn gallu gweld meddyg teulu, nyrs a radiolegydd i gyd yn y sesiwn gyntaf, rhaid iddynt fod yn wirioneddol sicr i gleifion a theuluoedd. ”

 

Mae'r Ganolfan Diagnosis Cyflym yn derbyn atgyfeiriadau gan feddygon teulu lle maent yn teimlo bod angen archwiliad pellach. Yn ystod y ddwy flynedd a hanner ers iddynt agor, maent wedi gweld bron i 1000 o gleifion yn dod â'r agwedd honno y mae angen mawr amdani yn gyntaf.

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