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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 very much appreciate the Member giving way. Will she explain to me how I am supposed to set a budget that deals with the pay rises and pay recommendations before those pay recommendations are made?
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care Pay Awards 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health and Social Care Pay Awards 2025-26
Thank you, Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank Mr McGrath for tabling the motion and all the Members who have contributed. Like them, I begin by offering my deepest sympathies to the family of Catherine Sherry. I know that it has been a very difficult time for her husband, her three young sons, the wider family and her…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: CAR T-cell Therapy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: CAR T-cell Therapy
The incident lasted over two days because there had to be a great level of concern that rebooting the system, if I may use that phrase, too quickly could have led to a further collapse in the system. That is why it was brought on gradually with those priority areas, which, as I said, were the labs, emergency…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Southern Trust: IT Outage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Southern Trust: IT Outage
In accordance with my written ministerial statement of 19 September, I reiterate that the Southern Health and Social Care Trust experienced an operational IT outage on the morning of 17 September. The issue was isolated to the Southern Trust, but, of course, it impacted across its sites. There is no suggestion that it…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Southern Trust: IT Outage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Southern Trust: IT Outage
I absolutely acknowledge the challenge that it creates for people who do not have ready access to their own transport or to transport laid on by relatives or friends. We have to live in the real world, however. The minor injury unit at the Ards Community Hospital was closed and the service moved to the Ulster…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ulster Hospital: Public Transport Connections to North Down Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ulster Hospital: Public Transport Connections to North Down
Those public transport arrangements are a matter for the Department for Infrastructure. As I have said, Minister Kimmins, Minister Muir and I discussed community transport and how we might better realign it to get the sort of outcomes that we are looking for. At this stage, with the resource and financial constraints…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ulster Hospital: Public Transport Connections to North Down Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ulster Hospital: Public Transport Connections to North Down
We are aware that there is vaccine hesitancy. I am not sure that the research suggests that it is quite as embedded in the societal psyche as some people think. We are not currently spending money on paid-for advertising such as TV promotions, but we will work with the primary care sector to encourage people to take…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: COVID-18 Vaccination Booster Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: COVID-18 Vaccination Booster
I am aware that we are going to have a booster programme this winter. It will be linked in with the influenza vaccination offer as normal. I am not across the detail, so I will have to write to the Member.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: COVID-18 Vaccination Booster Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: COVID-18 Vaccination Booster
I say gently to the Member that it is not me who takes steps; the Western Health and Social Care Trust has to take steps. The trust is very aware, as are the other trusts, of my opinion on how we need to leave no stone unturned in trying to address waiting lists in those EDs. That is well understood. In the short…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Altnagelvin Area Hospital: Emergency Waiting Times Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Altnagelvin Area Hospital: Emergency Waiting Times
It is partly to do with the environment in which people are working. Two of the seven emergency departments that I visited — the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast — were very modern. When I go to a really busy ED where the waits are measured in days rather than hours, I notice…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Altnagelvin Area Hospital: Emergency Waiting Times Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Altnagelvin Area Hospital: Emergency Waiting Times
Yes, I can commit to saying that we will not cut the budget. I do not wish to cut that budget, but one of the frustrations is that, every week — maybe not every day but certainly multiple times a week — people come to me and make the argument, "If you invest a bit of money in this, you will get a great saving", like…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Living Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Living Fund
In an ideal world, absolutely. In the current world, with a £614 million gap in funding, it is simply not possible. I have had to stop going to my permanent secretary and saying, "What do you think about reopening this or putting a bit more into that?", because the answer is, "I am the permanent secretary and the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Independent Living Fund Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Independent Living Fund
As I said, we are at the point where we can say that we do not use agency nurses. We are now addressing locums, because using them is a very expensive way to do business. That is not to say that locums do not have their place — of course they do — but we have become over-reliant on locums and are not using them for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses: Graduate Appointments Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses: Graduate Appointments
I am sorry, the Member might be confusing me for a walking encyclopedia. Those are statistics that I do not have to hand. There are many statistics on health and social care. Those are important ones, and all I can say to the Member is that I will find that out and write to him.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses: Graduate Appointments Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses: Graduate Appointments
As I said, we are trying to drive down the waiting times and handover times for all ambulances going to acute hospitals. For some time, there has been a cross-departmental working group that involves the Department for Infrastructure, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs and my Department. We…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ambulance Waiting Times Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ambulance Waiting Times
I understand that the Member is geographically wedded to the South Eastern Trust. My focus, of course, has to more broad and on the whole of Northern Ireland. Yes, we are absolutely looking at ambulance waiting times. One of the other things that we are doing though — I am doing it with the Minister of Agriculture,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Ambulance Waiting Times Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Ambulance Waiting Times
I will diverge from the Member's assessment and analysis of where we are. I understand that, as a spokesman for the Opposition, he comes at it from that angle. I do not see a fix for this outside the Executive working collaboratively, so I am not in the business of pointing a finger at any other Minister. I have made…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses' Pay Gap Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses' Pay Gap
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nurses' Pay Gap Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nurses' Pay Gap
Health and social care trusts are responsible for staffing. The regional recruitment of newly qualified nurses is therefore led by the trusts, in partnership with the Business Services Organisation (BSO). It takes place twice per annum. The most recent regional recruitment exercise for newly qualified nurses received…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Nursing Posts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Nursing Posts
On that point, when I visited the Royal Victoria Hospital, more than one person in the urgent care unit — it is on the first floor, from memory — had a flask and packed lunch with them. I asked if they had been sent by their GP, and they said, "No, we didn't bother trying to phone our GP. We came straight here". They…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26
As stated, I hope to be publishing that winter preparedness plan in the next two to three weeks. Certainly, the four sessions are over. I was very pleased with how the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer went about their business. I was extremely pleased with the appetite among stakeholders to attend those…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26
I cannot say to anybody that things will be perfect, but I believe that the four sessions that we had — we called them the "big conversation" — which will lead to the plan for winter preparedness for 2025-26, will help. The urgent care offer at Altnagelvin has helped, and the respiratory offer has helped — we are…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26
Earlier this year, under the leadership of the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Nursing Officer, we brought together senior leaders from across the health and social care system to learn from last winter and plan for winter 2025-26. I was clear that I wanted a blank sheet and a whole-system approach to look at what…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Preparedness Plan 2025-26
Following a formal application from the Western Trust, in August 2024, the Department approved a 10% recruitment and retention premium as an incentive in consultant psychiatry posts. Despite ongoing recruitment campaigns, no appointments, I regret to say, have been made to date. In response, the trust submitted a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Psychiatrist Shortage: Western Trust Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Psychiatrist Shortage: Western Trust
Obviously, if you need psychiatric help and it is not there for you, that can have a potentially devastating impact on your health. The number of psychiatrists in each trust will be determined by the population in the trust area and assessment of need, but the Member may find it very interesting to hear the number of…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Psychiatrist Shortage: Western Trust Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Psychiatrist Shortage: Western Trust
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