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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 Mr Dunne. As was made clear in the elective care framework published in June 2021 and again in the update of June this year, the demand for first consultant-led outpatient appointments in the South Eastern Trust continues to exceed capacity. Regrettably, patients are experiencing excessive waits for…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: SEHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: SEHSCT
The legislation gives us the framework, a set of principles and the matrix by which to judge how well we are doing, but, if the actual numbers do not exist, all that does is say that we have a problem. The question is this: what is the solution? It goes back to making working in our health and social care system as…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels
I will answer two of the multiple questions that the Member put to me. In trying to retain staff who are being attracted by Sláintecare, the fact is that we simply cannot compete on salary, so we have to compete on terms and conditions. We have to try to make sure that ours is such an attractive health and social care…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels
I thank the Member for the question. I am aware of what happened. Staff were transferred from Daisy Hill to Craigavon Area and from Craigavon Area to Daisy Hill because of workforce pressures due in large part, I understand, to absences through ill health and for other reasons. These things happen, of course, and to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels
I thank the Member for her supplementary question. It is very important that we recognise that this is a cross-departmental issue, which is not to shirk the role that the Department of Health, the various trusts and the arm's-length bodies have to play in it. I know personally of a young man who has special…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels
I thank Ms Brownlee for the question. My Department's ambitions for the development of our workforce are outlined in the 'Health and Social Care Workforce Strategy 2026', which was published in May 2018 and covers 2018 to 2026. That is an ambitious programme of work. It reflects the multifaceted approach that is…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Staffing Levels
The Member's comment strikes a chord with what I am trying to achieve on delivering better outcomes. I have said previously that there was perhaps a temptation to look at the five geographic trusts and say, "Should we not have one single trust for the whole of Northern Ireland?" That would almost be like the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
I thank the Member for the comment and the question. I have to say gently that the irony klaxon is sounding on that one, because the nature of the Department of Health's budget for this year means that we are trying to consolidate and preserve existing services. Many additional services are brought to me, pretty much…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
I hope that that will be a product of the reconfiguration of hospitals. What I am talking about is a network for better outcomes. Part of that is about recognising that, while not every hospital will deliver every service, some hospitals will become centres of excellence for certain specialities. That should apply to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
I thank Mr Buchanan for his question. He may be aware that I have campaigned on mental health since I was first elected in 2011. I can celebrate some of the achievements — the mental health champion, the mental health strategy and enhanced awareness — but when it comes to waiting lists, it is not so good. I am keenly…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Services: Waiting Lists
I thank the leader of the Opposition. I think that I have said in the House — I have certainly said it at the North/South Ministerial Council and also at the North/South sectoral forum — that I have no political or ideological objection to cooperation with the Government of Ireland on healthcare delivery. In fact, it…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation
I thank the Member for his question. All the royal colleges were involved, and all the chief executives and the trusts were involved. Indeed, a couple of weeks ago, I was at the headquarters of the South Eastern Trust and met the chairs of all the arm's-length bodies that are involved in delivering healthcare.…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation
First of all, I get it. You have waited a long time for the document, and, to a certain extent, perhaps, it is a little frustrating that it has only high-level principles. However, that is the logical sequence by which to roll out the nitty-gritty of reform. It is not just reform of hospitals; it is reform of how we…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation
I thank the Member of the Opposition for his comments and his question. I can say to him that this will not lie on the shelf and gather dust. Indeed, some Members have suggested that the Bengoa report from 2016 has, over the past eight years, sat on the shelf gathering dust, and that is not the case. There have been…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation
Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am making a statement on the launch of the public consultation on the hospital reconfiguration framework document, which is entitled 'Hospitals — Creating a Network for Better Outcomes'. I am pleased to have the opportunity to share the framework document with Members today in advance…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Reconfiguration Framework: Consultation
I do not have that detail to hand. What is very clear, however, is that any promises from the UK Government that they would make up that shortfall were not delivered on to any significant degree, and the community and voluntary sector suffers as a consequence.
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community and Voluntary Sector Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community and Voluntary Sector Funding
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. For Members who put a premium on accuracy, let it go into the record that the decision to cut the core grant by 50% was taken not by Robin Swann but by the permanent secretary at the Department of Health. The reason that it was not taken by Robin Swann or a Member of the House…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Community and Voluntary Sector Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Community and Voluntary Sector Funding
Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. Thank you, too, to the movers of the motion and the amendment. Mr McGrath, the mover of the motion, began by reminding us that we have lost more of our fellow citizens to suicide than we did during the course of what we euphemistically call our Troubles. I remember…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Mental Health Provision in Northern Ireland Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Mental Health Provision in Northern Ireland
The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Naloxone and Transfers of Functions) Regulations 2024 That the draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Naloxone and Transfers of Functions) Regulations 2024 be approved.
Assessment details for Motion or amendment: The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Naloxone and Transfers of Functions) Regulations 2024 Official Assembly record for Motion or amendment: The draft Human Medicines (Amendments Relating to Naloxone and Transfers of Functions) Regulations 2024
Perfect. Thank you very much, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, and I thank the Members who tabled the motion and the amendment and everyone who contributed. It is not just an important issue; we should be really passionate about it. I welcome the opportunity to respond to the debate. I will outline for Members the…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Health Service Transformation: Funding Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Health Service Transformation: Funding
Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I thank Áine Murphy for securing the Adjournment debate, and I thank the Members who have contributed. This is an opportunity to recognise and pay tribute to the fantastic work that is carried out by our primary care services. It is obvious that I am on my own in the Chamber, in…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: GP Services in Fermanagh Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: GP Services in Fermanagh
I have been listening with great interest to the praise — the deserved praise — that is being heaped on our Olympic and Paralympic athletes and their great successes in Paris over the summer, particularly those who have joined our gold medal winners. I note that we are crediting only three previous gold medallists —…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Paris Olympics and Paralympics Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Paris Olympics and Paralympics
I thank Mr Carroll for his supplementary question. He is taking me to an area that may be just slightly above my pay grade, but I will say this to Mr Carroll: it seems to me that people of reasonably high wealth who have decent incomes and disposable cash tend to take out private health insurance, so I am not quite…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget Cuts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget Cuts
I thank the Member for his question. To be clear, when I have talked about implementing cuts, it is in the context that, according to the five health trusts, there appear to be four categories of cuts: those that have low impact, medium impact, high impact and catastrophic impact. I have said that I am not willing to…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: Budget Cuts Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Budget Cuts
I am more than happy to accept an invitation to revisit the South West Acute Hospital and perhaps build a day's worth of programmes, events and meetings around it. Last Thursday, I had the great pleasure of going to Crossmaglen to visit a family-run GP practice, and that was really inspiring and energising. I will…
Assessment details for Debate contribution: South West Acute Hospital Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: South West Acute Hospital
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