All of Mrs Diane Dodds’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any progress made on implementing National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline 47 on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail his Department’s approach to the implementation of National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidelines.
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Fixing the Health Crisis”
Fixing the Health Crisis - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘regrets’ and insert: ‘the significant challenges facing our health service, including extensive waiting times, an escalating mental health crisis, and severe workforce shortages; acknowledges that these pressures are not solely due to a lack of funding, but…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any action being taken to eradicate illegal dental consultations, examinations or procedures, particularly by organisations or individuals from outside the UK.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of the conclusion in the March 2024 Northern Ireland Audit Office report Access to General Practice in Northern Ireland that, such was the importance of progressing multi-disciplinary teams in primary care, that his Department needed to find ways to fund further…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of paragraph 50 of the May 2024 Elective Care Framework Report which states, surgeons – one of the most expensive resources in the Health and Social Care system – spend less time in theatre than surgeons in other jurisdictions; and (ii) to detail any actions he is…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any consideration given to providing local NHS dental practices that are deemed hospitals by the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority, the same relief from National Insurance contributions being offered to hospitals in England.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the duration in weeks of the longest current wait for (i) a day case; and (ii) inpatient admission, broken down by speciality.
First, let me stress the obvious: it is absolutely right that public money allocated to Members to pay allowances and provide central party research support is held to the highest standards of propriety, transparency and accountability. The DUP will engage constructively with the Assembly Commission and other parties…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any costs associated with the disposal of personal protective equipment to landfill or elsewhere in the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the spend on short breaks for (i) children; and (ii) adults in each of the last six years, broken down by Health and Social Care Trust.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the amount lost through fraud from (i) his Department; and (ii) each of its arm's-length bodies in each of last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the duration in weeks of the longest current wait for a first outpatient appointment, broken down by specialty.
I thank the Minister. I absolutely agree that the new children's hospital is an imperative for us in Northern Ireland. I spent many years of my life in the old children's hospital, and the conditions there have not improved significantly since that time. In reply to a question for written answer that I submitted to…
Storm Éowyn To ask the Minister for Health for an update on services to the elderly and vulnerable people across Northern Ireland who are without power in the aftermath of Storm Éowyn.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of the performance level of the screeners and the management of the service at the Belfast cervical screening laboratory from 2013 to 2022; and (ii) to detail the cervical screener sensitivity for each of the four local screening laboratories for each year it is…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail who signed off on behalf of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to accept the handover of the new Maternity Hospital from the contractor; and (ii) for his assessment of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust apology to the Committee for Health for mistakenly advising…
To ask the Minister of Health for his assessment of the effectiveness of the operation of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust’s governance and assurance arrangements in the context of difficulties with the new Maternity Hospital and its handover from the contractor.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any dates on which the Organisational Governance Steering Group of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust was notified of concerns of the Water Safety and Usage Group about the new Maternity Hospital project.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail (i) the estimated volume of water used; and (ii) the costs involved in flushing the water systems at the new Maternity Hospital in Belfast since the discovery of Pseudomonas.
To ask the Minister of Health to provide a breakdown of the personal protective equipment items that have had to be disposed of due to passing expiry dates in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any contractual commitments that Business Services Organisation has to purchase further personal protective equipment.