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All of Mr Robin Swann’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not qualifying, uncertain or not yet analysed.
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I will certainly accept the Member's invitation if he puts it to me in writing.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Elective Care Procedures: Lagan Valley Hospital Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Elective Care Procedures: Lagan Valley Hospital
I thank the Member for his question. Lagan Valley Hospital is our flagship regional day-procedure centre. Opened in October 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the day-procedure centre at Lagan Valley Hospital has provided much-needed regional support for urgent and red-flag day procedures in response to the downturn…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Elective Care Procedures: Lagan Valley Hospital Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Elective Care Procedures: Lagan Valley Hospital
The Member will be aware that I launched the Northern Ireland cancer strategy and made clear that it would be delivered to its fullest only when it was fully supported financially and that that would require parties' commitment to the service. Neither my Department nor I wants to scrimp on the strategy or not see it…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives
Again, I thank the Member for the point. I am aware that it is part of a debate later on. We have been having conversations across both Departments on how we might make best use of facilities in Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland, because we both face the same challenges. Paediatric pathologists are a very small…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives
Again, the Member raises a specific issue. On the wider engagement piece regarding cancer specifically, the Member will be aware of the setting up of the All-Island Cancer Consortium, which was an outworking of the Belfast Agreement in 1998; it still does good work. I signed a renewed memorandum of understanding back…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives
In addition to existing areas of cross-border cooperation, my officials are engaging with and considering proposals from Minister Donnelly's office for further collaboration across several priority areas, including enhanced cancer service provision; alcohol, drugs and substance use; and children's services.…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Healthcare: Cross-border Initiatives
I am not aware of the specific case that the Member has raised. If there are ongoing SAIs in relation to a specific case, such as the individual that the Member mentioned, I do not have the detail here. I will go back and ask officials in the Belfast Trust to investigate. I am sure that the Member would expect nothing…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tooth Extractions Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tooth Extractions
I thank the Member. Children and young people with disabilities receive dental care across a range of settings in Northern Ireland: general dental services, community dental services and hospital dental services. Those with the most complex needs are treated in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Royal Victoria…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Tooth Extractions Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Tooth Extractions
I thank the Member. I push all the time that health should be central to everything that we do, not just in a Programme for Government but in a Budget. That was the commitment that was made in the House when this Executive were established. I want to hold my Executive colleagues to that commitment and that promise,…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy
The Member makes a valid point that has been reiterated across the House many times, not just by me but by Executive colleagues. When we talk about waiting lists, the challenge is having a non-recurrent Budget that does not allow us to make the strategic changes that we want to make across health, which needs that…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy
I was able to talk with representatives of the Royal College of Paediatrics on, I think, 4 April and update them on where the child health partnership and the project board are and how we look at bringing children's services in the Department on to an even keel and tackle some of the horrendous waiting lists that have…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy
I thank the Member. Although I was not able to attend the launch of the report today, I met people from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health a fortnight ago and talked through some of the recommendations in the report. I had good engagement with them at that event. A wide range of online well-being…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy
The reduction of waiting lists is a key priority for me and has been indicated as a key priority for the Executive. My officials are taking forward a range of measures to address it. However, as the Member is aware, it is a complex matter that will take time, effort and, importantly, adequate and recurrent investment.…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Waiting Lists: 3Ps Policy
I thank the Member. I refer him to the answer that I gave to the substantive question, which was that puberty blockers are available on NHS prescription only for under-18s who were accepted for and remain in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Knowing Our Identity service endocrine pathway prior to March 2020. I…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers
I thank the Member for his point. As I said in my answer, my officials have been working with the gender identity service pathway review group and the gender identity services liaison panel, which includes clinical, managerial and service user representation, to develop the gender identity service. The liaison panel…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers
When it comes to that issue and the Cass review, our principal focus has to be on providing the best healthcare and support for our young people. I echo the comments by Dr Hilary Cass about the toxic and polarised nature of much of the debate on this subject. That is particularly the case, as the Member will know, on…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers
I thank the Member for the clarity. As I said in answer to the substantive question, puberty blockers are only available on NHS prescription for those under-18s who were accepted prior to March 2020 onto the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust's Knowing our Identity service and remain on it. That decision was made…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers
Puberty blockers are only available on NHS prescription for those under-18s who were accepted onto the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust's Knowing our Identity endocrine pathway prior to March 2020 and remain on it. In March 2020, following consultation with the clinical ethics committee, the Belfast Health and…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Puberty Blockers
We do. That is something that I have asked departmental officials to look at, and they have been looking at it. A team in the Department has been established within the strategic planning and performance group, which looks at, manages and engages with trusts on delayed hospital discharges through a range of regionally…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT
I thank the Member for that point. As well as the additional £70 million that I announced, there have been two uplifts to the independent sector home care rate in the past few years. That has been done to recognise the complex work that that valuable workforce does and to entice more staff into the field. My officials…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT
The Member raised the specific facility of Rainbow Lodge in the Northern Trust at the Health Committee. I have looked at the additional respite capacity in that facility but also across Northern Ireland, because the issue does not just affect the Northern Trust. Our supply of respite is constrained by the pressures…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT
I thank the Member for her point. If she writes to me about that specific case, I will get back to her and engage with the Northern Trust on it. She highlights the issue of additional complex needs. We made provision whereby people who have waited a long time, especially for a care package, can go into domiciliary…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT
I intend that the £70 million will be rolled out as quickly as possible. I made the announcement in advance of a Budget being agreed because we have a high level of unmet need, especially across the Northern Trust because of not just the size but the rurality of the area that that trust covers. I hope that the…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT
I thank the Member for his question. Four new providers have contracted with the Northern Health and Social Care Trust in the past while. Collectively, they have taken on 766 packages of care, totalling 6,659 hours. The Northern Trust continues to target the recruitment of home care staff across the trust's…
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Care Packages: NHSCT
I beg to introduce the Hospital Parking Charges Bill [NIA 02/22-27], which is a Bill to modify the operation of the Hospital Parking Charges Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 so as to postpone the ban on charging money for parking vehicles in hospital car parks.
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Assessment details for Debate contribution: Hospital Parking Charges Bill: First Stage Official Assembly record for Debate contribution: Hospital Parking Charges Bill: First Stage
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