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All of Mr Mike Nesbitt’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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I thank the Member for giving way. Just to be technical about it, deaths by suicide is a matter for NISRA — the Statistics and Research Agency — rather than the Department.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit
I thank the Member for giving way. For clarity, I think that I said that the interim advice came from the SPPG, but I misspoke. The interim advice came from the Public Health Agency. Its lead on those issues is a clinician.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit
Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. A mother-and-baby unit is not overdue or long overdue: it is long, long overdue. Mr Robinson took us back 20 years: I will see his 20 years, and I will up it by 10. On 27 January 1995, my first son was born in the Royal Victoria Hospital. The first clinician to come in and examine…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit
In that case, Principal Deputy Speaker, I suppose that the answer has to be yes.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Public Confidence Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Public Confidence
On the last point, I assure the Member that an early alert system is in place, and not just for the Belfast Trust. I have put it into the intervention framework at level 5, which is the highest level. I have sent in two experts — one clinical and one an expert in organisational culture. I have just received their…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Public Confidence Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Public Confidence
It is an electronic patient record system. It is doing away with paperwork. That frees up efficiencies. It is not designed for what you have just said that you want to see.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health: Spending on Information Systems Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health: Spending on Information Systems
The Member will be aware of Encompass, which is a new electronic patient record. It is now rolled out across all five geographic trusts, from Northern to Southern, Western to South Eastern and Belfast. The potential for public health initiatives from trapping that data is immense. As for a working practice for an…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health: Spending on Information Systems Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health: Spending on Information Systems
I am not aware of the 700 to 800 figure, but access is not what it should be. As a matter of principle, online has an important part to play going forward. I was in Sheffield and London looking at examples of the neighbourhood model, and there is no doubt that online triage is a thing. It seems to work well in the GP…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP Appointments: Online Booking Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP Appointments: Online Booking
The Member will be aware that the BMA General Practitioners Committee is in dispute with my Department over contract arrangements for the current financial year. On that basis, I would wish to try to encourage that committee to come back and start talking about next year's contract and about my desire to introduce a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP Appointments: Online Booking Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP Appointments: Online Booking
That is the exact point that I was trying to hint at in my first answer. I am not sure whether that organisation, the Singapore-based GenderGP, is the same as the one that I had in mind, but, as I was working my head around the puberty blocker ban, I was made aware that there was one prescriber who, I believe, was a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers: Harmful Alternatives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers: Harmful Alternatives
It was essential to secure the indefinite ban on the supply and sale of puberty blockers to under-18s. That ban was based on expert advice, which very clearly cited the insufficient evidence of the safety and effectiveness of those puberty blockers. I would be concerned by any efforts to bypass that ban by using…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers: Harmful Alternatives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers: Harmful Alternatives
I can certainly make that commitment, yes.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Cervical Screening Information Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Cervical Screening Information
That is quite a technical medical request. I am not sure that I am equipped to answer it, so I commit to the Member that I will take it away. Perhaps, in her supplementary, she will be as specific as possible about the information that she seeks.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Cervical Screening Information Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Cervical Screening Information
For clarity, I do not think that any review that I have commissioned has caused a day's or even a minute's delay in the process. Even when I said that I wanted an independent assessment of the trust's preferred option, the trust was given permission to go ahead and plan the design phase as if the option were going to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Opening Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Opening
Some weeks ago, a number of options were put to me for how we fix the water issues at the maternity hospital. I was not content to simply accept the advice that I was given, so I asked the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to commission an independent review of that advice. That has now completed. The independent…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Opening Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Opening
I thank the Member for his supplementary question. The hyperacute stroke project board is currently leading on the process to identify the optimal configuration for any future hyperacute stroke services in Northern Ireland. We have worked with the University of Exeter on that. Given the current financial pressures, we…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Thrombectomy Service Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Thrombectomy Service
A costed model is being completed that estimates that just over £5 million of recurrent funding is required in order to deliver a 24/7 service. That funding could deliver up to 160 additional procedures every year and increase capacity in other areas, such as stroke and interventional neuroradiology. My officials are…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Thrombectomy Service Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Thrombectomy Service
I can assure the Member that the clinical guidance — CG168 — from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, as well as the views of a range of stakeholders, clinical and non-clinical, informed the effective use of resources policy for the treatment of varicose veins. NICE interventional procedures…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Vascular Varicose Vein Waiting List Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Vascular Varicose Vein Waiting List
In the past 12 months, 2,142 patients have been removed from the vascular varicose vein outpatient waiting list owing to a change of criteria, with 976 patients remaining on it. I recognise the disappointment of the patients who were removed from the waiting list. The fact that many patients had been on it for a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Vascular Varicose Vein Waiting List Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Vascular Varicose Vein Waiting List
We have increased numbers of specialist nurses. The Member is making a party political point.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses: Recruitment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses: Recruitment
I want to see an expansion of the number of specialist nurses and advanced nurse practitioners, because that will improve patient care. It will reduce the waiting lists for assessment and treatment. I have visited primary care surgeries at which advanced nurse practitioners are making a magnificently positive impact.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses: Recruitment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses: Recruitment
I share the Member's frustration with the delay in the winter preparedness plan's being published. The fact of the matter is that I saw a draft, and I wanted some work completed on that. I am very optimistic that it will be published this month, that is, October. I am not sure whether I agree with the Member that the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses: Career Progression Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses: Career Progression
I acknowledge that that is key, and I do so with pay on the agenda, which is clearly the headline in the court of public opinion. Everybody should have a reasonable expectation of career progression during their time, and the evidence very much suggests that that is not the case for band 5 nurses.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses: Career Progression Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses: Career Progression
I accept that the waiting times for services and treatment are extremely frustrating for patients and their families. I assure the Member that my officials and I have been working to address paediatric waiting lists and to modernise and standardise practices and pathways right across Northern Ireland. The Belfast…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ENT Appointments: SEHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ENT Appointments: SEHSCT
My Department is very aware of the challenges facing the South Eastern Trust in providing ear, nose and throat services. The trust has had difficulty recruiting consultants in recent years, and, in July 2025, there were three vacancies. To address that, my officials have been working closely with the Belfast Trust and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: ENT Appointments: SEHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: ENT Appointments: SEHSCT
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