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Mrs Diane Dodds: Assembly records
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.
I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the Budget debate, and I will confine my remarks to my policy area of health and social care. As a first step, I reiterate my and my party's priority for our health and social care system. I believe that, despite the political wrangling, all of us across the House want to see…
To ask the Minister of Health whether National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance (i) NG133; and (ii) NG185 have been implemented in Northern Ireland.
Minister, you will agree that early detection for cancers is extremely important. Recently, I met Cathy Brokenshire, the widow of the late James Brokenshire. We do not have early screening for lung cancer in Northern Ireland, despite lung cancer being one of our most prolific killers of people with cancer. Will you…
Thank you, Minister. My question follows on from what your statement said about cancer. We all know that cancer does not respect boundaries, persons or anything else and that all-island cancer research is a good thing, but we need our own cancer research strategy for Northern Ireland. Will you commit to bringing one…
To ask the Minister of Health (i) for his assessment of the mild to moderate depression service in primary care; and (ii) how much funding his Department has provided for it in each of the last five years.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of patients currently considered medically fit to leave hospital who are having their discharge delayed, broken down by (i) hospital; and (ii) the reason for the delay.
To ask the Minister of Health whether there is a date by which the original planning permission secured for the new Mother and Children’s Flagship hospital will lapse.
To ask the Minister of Health (i) to detail the support provided to adults with special needs for travel to and from day care centres; and (ii) whether such support is dependent on attending the nearest appropriate centre or available regardless of the centre attended.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the percentage of patients with atrial fibrillation and at high risk of stroke that are being treated with direct oral anticoagulants.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail the number of people diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and at high risk of stroke are currently being prescribed direct oral anticoagulant medication.
Thank you, Minister. Will it require legislation to create a separate body for the controlled sector? Is that, potentially, in the long run, the only way forward to ensure that there is equity between all education sectors?
Mrs Dodds asked the Minister, given that many people are concerned that the controlled sector is disadvantaged in that it does not have a specific body to look after its needs and given that the independent review of education recommended that, at the very least, there should be a function within EA to do that in a…
Thank you, Minister, for that. It is really important. A large ecosystem of companies across Northern Ireland, including my Upper Bann constituency, supplies to bigger companies such as Spirit. Have you had contact with those companies, and do you recognise the importance that that large employer has for their…
Mrs Dodds asked the Minister for the Economy, aware that he met her party colleague Gavin Robinson on Spirit AeroSystems, what specific representation he had made to the company to try to keep the Belfast operation intact and save jobs.
I thank the Member for taking an intervention. I am always astounded that people put so much emphasis on cross-border healthcare. Will the Member agree that there is an inherent inequity in that people who want to avail themselves of that service have to provide the money up front before they can claim it back and…
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Before we get on to the meat of the amendment, I want us to focus on the real enemy here, and that is cancer, which affects everyone, regardless of race, creed or religion. Macmillan Cancer Support estimates that cancer kills 167,000 people throughout the United Kingdom every year. That…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Cross-border Healthcare”
Cross-border Healthcare - Amendment 1 Leave out all after the first 'acknowledges' and insert: ‘the challenges facing our health service; notes that Northern Ireland has fallen behind both Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland on several healthcare outcomes; understands that a solution to our healthcare challenges…
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “All-Island Cancer Research Co-operation”
All-Island Cancer Research Co-operation - Amendment 1 Leave out all after ‘cooperation in cancer research’ and insert: ‘with both the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland; further recognises that clinical experts in this field have stated that developing Oncology Innovation Clusters by pooling resources, could…