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 her question. I wrote to Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and communicated with the then Finance Minister, Caoimhe Archibald; indeed, the three devolved Administrations in Wales, Scotland and here have been liaising. I think that there is a concerted approach to make…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Family Practitioners Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Family Practitioners
I am afraid that you have failed in your audition to become Health Minister, but that is the way that it goes. I do not accept that at the moment, because it is just too early. We are still in the foothills of how we carve out the Health budget, because it is, after all, over £8·4 billion. Despite the fact that there…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Family Practitioners: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Family Practitioners: Funding
I thank the Member for her question. I am sympathetic to that, because it is an unexpected and additional burden that has been placed on opticians, GPs, pharmacists and the rest. Within the Budget, the Minister of Finance has informed me that £3·5 million has been contributed to what, we think, will be a £36 million…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Family Practitioners: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Family Practitioners: Funding
I thank the Member for his follow-up. I am not sure that I agree that that has fuelled the fire, but I am sure that every Member would like to see a wildfire management plan and a wildfire management strategy. I know that the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs shares that ambition and, I think, is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fire and Rescue Service: Gorse Fires Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fire and Rescue Service: Gorse Fires
I very much welcome the opportunity to join the Member in paying tribute to members of the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, who have been tireless in recent days, manually beating down the fires in the Mournes. I will visit them: I want to show my appreciation and admiration of them, but, as the situation is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Fire and Rescue Service: Gorse Fires Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Fire and Rescue Service: Gorse Fires
I will need half a minute to get to the answer, Mr Speaker. I thank the Member for her question. We have been engaging with the campaign group Hernia Mesh Awareness NI about the Hughes report and redress, and that includes surgical mesh for men. I assure the Member that not just is it on our agenda but action is being…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Vaginal Mesh Redress Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Vaginal Mesh Redress Scheme
I thank the Member for her follow-up question and her concern, which I share. The numbers in Northern Ireland have to be determined. I am not hiding behind the fact that we are waiting for the Department of Health and Social Care in London to respond definitively to the Hughes report, but it is important that the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Vaginal Mesh Redress Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Vaginal Mesh Redress Scheme
The Patient Safety Commissioner for England, Dr Henrietta Hughes, made recommendations in the Hughes report on redress for those who were harmed by pelvic mesh implants and the medicine sodium valproate. The Hughes report was published on 7 February last year. Dr Hughes's remit was specifically for England, but it is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Vaginal Mesh Redress Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Vaginal Mesh Redress Scheme
I want to emphasise that I did go there in December. They are great people and very dedicated people, but they are working in a building that is long past being fit for purpose. They do not have enough space, rooms are too small, and they are just making do. You need buildings, equipment, medicines and workforce, and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Carrickmore Health Centre: Capital Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Carrickmore Health Centre: Capital Investment
I thank the Member for his ongoing interest. I am aware of the frustrations and concerns being raised locally, and he is getting those in his office. I met the GP partners and their staff at the health centre in Carrickmore on 4 December last year. I fully recognise that there is a huge need to invest in primary care…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Carrickmore Health Centre: Capital Investment Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Carrickmore Health Centre: Capital Investment
I am suffering from trauma from your sense of humour. We have a number of strategies in play. If you are referring particularly to people who are suffering trauma and community coercive control by paramilitary groups — is that where you are? — yes, there is the tackling paramilitarism, criminality and organised crime…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update
I thank the Member for her question. I acknowledge her ongoing interest in the area and in the broad field of mental health and suicide prevention. As I said, April 2023 is the appropriate date to start the clock on phase 1, so April 2026 is when three years will be up. I go back to the fact that it is a period of at…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update
As I was saying, the RTN was set up specifically for victims and survivors of the conflict. It was agreed during the Stormont House talks by Martin McGuinness, Peter Robinson and all the other party leaders who were involved. Then, however, officials made the point that the National Health Service has to be open to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update
Can I not just say what I want? No.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update
I thank the Member for his follow-up question. The Regional Trauma Network is as broad in its reach as it can be, and, of course, service users bring up bereavement daily. I am confident that the RTN has the capacity, skills and experience to deal with that. The Member will be aware that the Regional Trauma Network…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update
I am pleased to say that, since the beginning of the 2023-24 financial year, around 9,000 individuals have availed themselves of services in the Regional Trauma Network through the Victims and Survivors Service (VSS) and its 46 community and voluntary sector partner organisations. Around 600 individuals have availed…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Regional Trauma Network: Update
I thank the Member for his question. He knows that I have the desire to shift left to primary and community care, and community pharmacies are key to that, as are general practitioners, dentists and so on. I continue to engage with Community Pharmacy NI. They come to me with what, I believe, are valid concerns. When…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned
I thank the Committee Chair for his comments and the question. Yes. The biggest single action that I can take is to introduce a real living wage for people who provide social care. That way, it will become a more attractive profession, and we can therefore grow that workforce. If we do not grow the workforce, the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned
I thank the Member for his follow-up question. There is a question in my mind about what percentage of people who attend an emergency department do so unnecessarily. Again, "Zero" would be the ideal answer to that question. We are trying to identify as early as possible in the patient journey the correct pathway for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned
I was clear last year that we expected a very difficult winter and that my Department's winter plan would not eliminate the pressures but, at best, serve to mitigate them. We know from previous years that people become sicker and sicker for longer over the winter months and that that brings additional pressures to a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Winter Pressures: Lessons Learned
I thank the Member. Officials in my Department maintain regular contact with the Belfast Trust's management to oversee that the proposed actions are taking place. Officials schedule regular meetings with senior trust representatives, and the main aim is to ascertain the current waiting times and to discuss any issues…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access
I thank the Member for his interest and his follow-up question. If I can, I would certainly like to engage with the parents. It is a situation that became intractable for quite a time, and I was concerned about why the list became so long. It was a result of capacity at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access
Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy insertion for children and young people is a very complex procedure. It requires specialist clinical and nursing input that is prior to, during and post procedure. Officials have been working with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust to identify measures in order to address the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: PEG Tube Surgery: Access
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. From the get-go, let us consider the irony klaxon to have been sounded. It is exhausted. As Mr Robinson pointed out, we were here relatively recently. The amended motion that was passed that day is interesting. It reads: "That this Assembly commends the work of the community and voluntary…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Core Grant Scheme Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Core Grant Scheme
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I particularly thank the Chair and the Deputy Chair of the Health Committee for their remarks. The Deputy Chair was particularly clearly well across all the detail of the issues and the importance and benefits of clinical trials. I regret Mr Gaston's remarks, because they could…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: The draft Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: The draft Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
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