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Mr Mike Nesbitt: Assembly records
All of Mr Mike Nesbitt’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
I thank the Royal College of Emergency Medicine for its report entitled 'The State of Emergency Medicine in Northern Ireland'. It reinforces our understanding of what needs to be done to address the pressures in our emergency departments. As is highlighted in the report, despite challenges with improving individual…
I am certainly in favour of women's health hubs, but the Member must be aware — I started Question Time by referring to it — of the £800 million gap in funding. I cannot make a commitment that I cannot fund. I am afraid that, at this stage, I cannot foresee my getting the funds for a women's hub in this financial…
I thank the Member for his question. Our lifespan gender service model is not a new service; rather, existing services are being merged into one. Nothing is changing in the criteria or the parameters from the model of care that has been commissioned for over a decade. However, the new service will take account of the…
That is a very important issue. I have to say that the scale of medical misogyny is difficult to quantify. It is essential that women feel listened to, respected and treated fairly when accessing the health and social care system. The action plan will consider the need for improved awareness of, training for and…
I thank the Member for her question. I have some rather good news in that regard. Keytruda is already used in Health and Social Care (HSC) for many different forms of cancer, in line with recommendations from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). The manufacturer of Keytruda has recently…
After the debate, it was clear to me that the mood and will of the House was to look at an interim measure that was good and safe, not necessarily one that was best practice. From the Royal College, we know that best practice means proximity to an adult inpatient centre and obstetric-led maternity services. We looked…
I regret the fact that we are the only nation or region of the United Kingdom not to have such a strategy. I am very much in favour of having one. It was only time constraints that led me to the position of wanting to have an action plan first. I hope that a strategy will follow during the next mandate. The Member is…
With your indulgence, Mr Speaker, I may require an extra minute to answer, because this is an important issue of some depth. Work on a women's health action plan is advancing, with policy and service developments ongoing across many areas. I intend to publish the plan later this year, after we have received and…
Thank you, Madam Principal Deputy Speaker. I thank the proposer of the motion, the proposer of the amendment and, indeed, all Members who contributed. I begin by fully acknowledging the strength of feeling not just in the Chamber but amongst the public regarding access to health service dentistry. The concerns are…
Thank you. Let me begin by trumping Mr McGrath, because North Belfast was my first home. I spent my first five years in a house on the Lansdowne Road off the Antrim Road. I welcome every opportunity to discuss MDTs, particularly in North Belfast, so I thank the Member for bringing that into focus. I also welcome the…
Thank you, Deputy Speaker. There are a few matters arising from Members' comments. I emphasise that the £7 million is not additional money or new money. It is simply a question of saying that we currently forecast a shortfall this year of £760 million. That prevents it from becoming £767 million. I share Mrs Dodds's…
I beg to move Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. Today's Final Stage debate concludes the legislative process for the Hospital Parking Charges Bill in the Assembly. I thank all Members for the contributions that they have made to the process. The purpose of the Bill is to defer the abolition of hospital parking charges, as…
I do not have a geographical breakdown, but I can certainly ask whether one can be made available or whether we can do the research to provide the Member with one. To be clear, when I said that there has been a small decrease, I said clearly that that was not a trend. It is not good enough. Yes, we say that those…
In an ideal world, I would be with Mr Carroll in saying that the delivery of health and social care would be done entirely by Health and Social Care (HSC). We are far from being in an ideal world, however. For example, to tackle waiting lists through the initiatives that we began with last year's budget and that we…
When I invited Professor Rafael Bengoa to come back in 2024 and reboot his report, 'Systems, Not Structures: Changing Health and Social Care', he gave me a valuable piece of advice. He said, "Be really tight on what you want to achieve, and articulate it clearly so that people understand, but be very loose about how…
I agree with the Member that we need to ask the United Kingdom Government to look again at our Budget provision, because, if you look at Scotland, you will see that it is being funded above assessed objective need. Wales is also being funded above and beyond assessed objective need, and we are arguing that we are not.…
There are several. When you factor in the number of people who visit those centres, that maybe talks to what Mrs Dodds referred to: the fact that the number of people presenting at EDs has not radically increased. One of the reasons for that has to be the fact that we are providing so many alternative pathways for…
If I have the budget to increase capacity, of course I will increase capacity. If I was not clear, let me say that when I talked about introducing the real living wage, that was the first step that I was referring to. I want to make that clear. It is not the be-all and end-all, but with budget, it will be the first…
I accept that it is about the flow, as I said to Mr Donnelly. I cannot give you a timeline for the fix, because it will require investment. The more investment that is put into it, the quicker the fix will be realised. You said that there were 1,032 excess deaths last year. The year before, the number was 1,122. The…
I agree with the Member, and I have made the point several times in the Chamber. It is about flow through the hospitals. On many occasions, the focus of the media and the House has been on the front door, including delays in ambulance handovers and delays in getting patients, about whom there had been a decision to…
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) report, 'The State of Emergency Medicine in Northern Ireland', highlights the serious risks associated with prolonged waits in our emergency departments (EDs). Those associated risks include avoidable harm and death. The report estimates that long waits could be…
Thank you, Deputy Speaker. I thank Phillip Brett for raising the issue and thank the Members who contributed. The debate highlights the very real and ongoing issues being experienced in Mr Brett's constituency. However, access to health service dentistry is a challenge across the entire region, not just North Belfast,…
As you know, Mr Speaker, when there is a debate involving more than one Minister, only one Minister can respond, and that is why I have not spoken in the debate. As I am on my feet, however, I want to offer an unconditional apology to the families concerned for the 24 hours of unnecessary stress and distress.
Madam Principal Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. I thank the Chair and the Deputy Chair for their comments. I am sure that Members will agree that the COVID-19 vaccination campaigns in recent years have been a success. They have helped us to move out of the pandemic to live a more normal way of life. I firmly…