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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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It is all going very well here. The South West Acute Hospital is a very important asset in the Northern Ireland health service estate. I have had the pleasure of visiting the hospital on a number of occasions in recent months. Indeed, I visited it most recently with the Member. I saw again how accessible and modern…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH
It is intended that the additional funding will assist with increasing short-break capacity and expanding family, therapeutic and behavioural supports in the community right across all five geographic trusts. It is very important to recognise that overnight residential short breaks are only one part of the continuum…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding
I assure the Member that I am very focused on that. I see that she is wearing a Heart Failure Warriors badge, as I am, after visiting the group in the Long Gallery earlier. We heard the two sisters on Radio Ulster this morning. One is in the Southern Trust area, and one is in the Northern Trust area, and there is a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding
I give the Member that assurance. The important thing is to recognise that co-design means starting with as close as possible to a blank page and asking the service users, "What do you want, what obstacles are in your way and how can we overcome them?". We got to a point where residential care in particular was being…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding
I thank the Member for her question. As she will be aware, I was pleased recently to approve additional regional funding for children with disability services, despite the financial circumstances facing my Department. That funding allocation will enable up to £2 million to be spent over the rest of this financial…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding
Again, I accept that as the Member's genuine belief. Ultimately, it will be a judgement call for the House. I will make my judgement call after we have consulted on our Being Open framework. We can all agree, however, that we have an opportunity here to end the years of frustration. At this point, we might not agree…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour
To begin with, I acknowledge not only the genuine passion with which Members have spoken but the frustration that nothing has been done in a long number of years. Members have alluded to the fact that the idea of a duty of candour has been around since the inquiry into hyponatraemia-related deaths and the conclusions…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Statutory Duty of Candour
As we create this tapestry of tributes to Anna Lo, it is difficult, at times, to avoid repetition. However, repetition is not necessarily a bad thing; not when it focuses on Anna Lo's values and the great contribution that she made, not just in the Chamber but to society in general. Before she was here, Anna spent…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Anna Lo Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Anna Lo
I thank the Member. If she were a fly on the wall in the ministerial office in the Department, she would note that, over the past four and a half months, staff morale has been a particular interest of mine. I have very much picked up the impression that, of the various groups of professionals who deliver healthcare,…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services
Again, perhaps there are two things. I apologise if Committee members feel that they were not given early enough sight of the report. However, I do not see this being the be-all and end-all of the discussion. I would welcome the Committee's taking a detailed look at the Renfrew recommendations. As regards…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services
I thank the Member for her question. There are two aspects to the answer. What can we do? We have to talk, because we have to understand why the Southern Trust is in the situation that it is in. We need to understand what it intends to do about it. Once we understand the issues — I understand them to relate…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services
I thank the Member for his comments. On his question, as recently as yesterday, I had a meeting with a large number of officials — we are talking about not just midwifery but nursing and allied health professionals; the gamut of healthcare delivery sections — and they have gone away to see how we can improve the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services
Mr Deputy Speaker, given the nature of the subject matter, with your indulgence, I suspect that the statement may exceed the normal duration. I welcome the opportunity to update Members on maternity and neonatal services, including the report by Professor Mary Renfrew entitled 'Enabling Safe Quality Midwifery Services…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Maternity and Neonatal Services
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank all Members who contributed to the debate. I will start with a direct and clear response to the motion. The current provision for children and adults with learning disabilities is inadequate and has been for quite some time. I agree with the motion that respite is not a…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Respite Provision for Adults with Learning Difficulties, Complex Needs and Challenging Behaviour Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Respite Provision for Adults with Learning Difficulties, Complex Needs and Challenging Behaviour
Deputy Speaker, thank you. I thank Diane Dodds for securing today's Adjournment debate. I welcome the opportunity to recognise the situation that so many people living with breast cancer find themselves in. Naturally, much of the discussion about our breast services focuses on performance, and quite rightly so. Since…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Breast Cancer: Waiting Times in Upper Bann Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Breast Cancer: Waiting Times in Upper Bann
We received £122 million in June monitoring, which was very welcome. It has made a good contribution to the deficit. However, following an additional push for savings from our arm's-length bodies, the gap is now a reduced but still significant £130 million to £135 million. I commend the trusts, which have made…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health Budget 2024-25 Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health Budget 2024-25
I am not sure whether it was the practice manager or one of the doctors in the Castle Practice who felt that East Antrim had been knocked out of its place in the pecking order. The next three proposed federations for MDT are North Belfast, the South West, which is Fermanagh and Omagh, and, indeed, East Antrim. All are…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Multidisciplinary Teams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Multidisciplinary Teams
I very much enjoyed the visit with the Member to Carrickfergus and East Antrim, and I thank him for the invitation. It was useful to see at first hand the convincing case that the Castle Practice has made for an investment in its premises. The pharmacy is among the top three busiest in the whole of Northern Ireland. I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Multidisciplinary Teams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Multidisciplinary Teams
Meetings, particularly between officials and stakeholders, including the unions, happen all the time. I am more than happy to engage when appropriate. I want to see a workforce in which there are no vacancies and where people are as content as possible in their role because they feel that they are being cherished and…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Children's Social Work Teams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Children's Social Work Teams
Pay and workforce challenges are among our most pressing, difficult and intractable issues. I acknowledged previously, for example, that, with pay rates in Health and Social Care (HSC), it is difficult, if not impossible, to compete with Sláintecare, particularly in the border areas. The Western Trust and Southern…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Children's Social Work Teams Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Children's Social Work Teams
I know how they arrived at option 7, and that was by listening to the clinicians. I visited the Causeway Hospital and Antrim Area Hospital one day a few weeks ago, and I met some clinicians who were involved. I have to say to the Member that their view was that that option was not, as the trust put it, their…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Relocation of Emergency Department Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Relocation of Emergency Department
I thank the Member. I acknowledge that there are legitimate concerns when you move services from one place to another. Yes, the Northern Trust is consulting on removing emergency general surgery from the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine to Antrim Area Hospital in Antrim town. That is a live consultation, and it is only…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Relocation of Emergency Department Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Causeway Hospital: Relocation of Emergency Department
I am afraid not.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: RSV Vaccine Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: RSV Vaccine
I thank the Member for his question. We do not have plans in that area, and the reason is that we are following Great Britain on the advice and roll-out of that vaccination.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: RSV Vaccine Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: RSV Vaccine
No Bill has been written, and the Bill's composition will be dictated to an extent by the public's reaction to that consultation process. However, it will also be up to the Assembly and the Committee for Health to decide the shape of the Bill. Again, I do not feel that I am the only person making decisions here. I…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Public Health Bill: Consultation Response Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Public Health Bill: Consultation Response
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