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 am aware of the outline proposal that Queen's University Belfast put forward to trial a rapid drug-testing model in Northern Ireland. Following recent conversations with interested parties, including Queen's, the PSNI and the Public Health Agency, the intention is that enhanced testing possibilities will be fully…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Rapid Drug Testing Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Rapid Drug Testing
I thank the Member for her question. As far as I understand it, there are ongoing discussions about the future of that service. All those services have been shown to be of benefit to patients, particularly vulnerable patients and those patients who perhaps do not know how to navigate a hospital such as the Royal…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres
The Member mentioned that there are PSNI officers in the Mater Hospital, as there are in the EDs of all our acute hospitals. The Member will be aware that the Chief Constable, Mr Boutcher, is planning to move the PSNI to the Right Care, Right Person model, following an approach that is under way in other parts of the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres
Without wishing to scare people, the question, "Will things be adequately resourced?", tends to end up with the answer, "It could be much better resourced", although that is not to say that there are not good resources out there. The Member will know that I have campaigned on mental ill health and well-being since I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres
Implementing the new regional mental health crisis service is a commitment in actions 12 and 27 of the mental health strategy 2021-2031. My departmental officials and the Public Health Agency (PHA) are working in partnership to deliver on both those actions, with the hope of developing a regional mental health crisis…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Crisis Centres
I see that as being part of the next phase. As has been said, £360 million is a lot of money. To roll out Encompass fully across primary care is beyond our financial reach. I say to the Member, however, that the next thing that I want to see is e-prescriptions. I want to see GPs being able to prescribe over the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update
As the Member may know, I have been out and about a lot. I have visited a lot of sites, particularly hospitals where Encompass is in use, and I do get a mixed reaction when I ask people what they think of it. I have heard some extremely negative comments, which I will not repeat in the Chamber. I have also received…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update
As the Member will know, GPs do not have full access to Encompass, but it is my understanding, from talking to the officials who were in charge of it, that they have sufficient and appropriate access to it. Where we go in the longer term is something that I am very much open to discussing, but, at the moment, I am…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update
The fact is that rolling out Encompass is one of the biggest changes to patient record-keeping that the health and social care workforce has ever had to face. Encompass needs a period in which to bed in and a period for validation, so, as frustrating as that may be, there have been times, and there continue to be…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update
Encompass successfully went live in the Southern Trust and the Western Trust on 8 May. This is the first time in the history of Northern Ireland that all five geographically defined trusts have been integrated into one digital system. It is a major transformational change that will empower patients and improve access…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Encompass: Update
I will check once again with officials whether a temporary solution is possible. As I just said to the Member who asked the original question, it is now over 30 years ago that my wife had an episode of antenatal depression. What happened when my son was born was so far from ideal that it has stuck with us 30 years on.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit: Business Case Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit: Business Case
Yes, I have. I had some detailed discussions with the previous Minister for Health in the Government of Ireland, Stephen Donnelly, about the possibility of pitching to the Shared Island Fund for a single mother-and-baby unit that would service the whole island of Ireland. Without wishing to break any confidentiality,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit: Business Case Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit: Business Case
An earlier independent review identified that the model of the proposed six- or seven-bedded mother-and-baby unit should be that recommended by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and that the location of the mother-and-baby unit should be the City Hospital site, which, of course, is in the Belfast Health and Social…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit: Business Case Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mother-and-baby Unit: Business Case
I understand that the Member is curious about that, as, indeed, am I. As I understand it, the trust is still trying to figure out exactly what has gone wrong with the pipework. We know that there was pseudomonas bacteria in the pipework. That was the main issue, but, since then, I understand that some valves that have…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System
I am satisfied with the verbal assurance that I got as recently as yesterday that work is progressing on the children's hospital on time and to budget. That said, we are in the foothills of a long building works campaign. I am happy to report that the Falls Road has not collapsed, and I do not say that flippantly.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System
As the Member said, this is a different issue. A fire safety audit was carried out at the Royal Victoria Hospital on 4 June by personnel from the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service under the Fire and Rescue Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006. The audit found a substantial risk at wards 4 and 7, with a score…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System
First, no decision has been endorsed by me. There were three options, and I know that the trust is going for option b. That appears to have a timeline — I am sorry to say this — of 28 months. That is another two years and a bit and several million pounds. As I said, I have met the relevant official. I have not…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System
The Belfast Trust recently completed the multidisciplinary review of the options for the remediation works required to address the water safety issues in the new maternity hospital at the Royal Victoria site. The review has been in the form of multidisciplinary risk assessment workshops held in April and May. The…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity Hospital: Water Treatment System
Second Stage: Adult Protection Bill (NIA Bill 16/22-27)
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On a point of order, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I understand that Mr Donnelly made a point of order earlier to the effect that the supporting document that I mentioned during my response to the question for urgent oral answer had not been received by members of the Health Committee. I understand that there was…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Agriculture Bill: Consideration Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Agriculture Bill: Consideration Stage
I can only repeat what I said to Mr Donnelly: you have a copy of what levels 1 to 5 entail. As to the practicalities of that, Peter McBride will be available to me from the beginning of next week. He will, in effect, be my ears and eyes in the trust while it implements the recommendations of the independent report…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Accountability and Oversight Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Accountability and Oversight Arrangements
Assigning an issue to my Department's support and intervention framework creates a focused request for improvement by that trust. Level 5 is the highest intervention level and brings with it external support and escalated oversight. The Member will be aware that, at the Health Committee meeting on 29 May, when I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Accountability and Oversight Arrangements Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Belfast Health and Social Care Trust: Accountability and Oversight Arrangements
The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025 That the draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025 be approved.
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Hub and Spoke Dispensing etc.) Regulations 2025
Legislative Consent Motion: Rare Cancers Bill That this Assembly endorses the principle of the extension to Northern Ireland of Clause 1 to the Rare Cancers Bill, as introduced, to provide for a mandated requirement on the Secretary of State for Health to conduct a review of the law on marketing authorisations for…
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: Legislative Consent Motion: Rare Cancers Bill Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: Legislative Consent Motion: Rare Cancers Bill
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