Debate contribution: Cancer: Diagnostic Tests: Waiting Times

Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on 29 June 2026.

MLA: Mr Mike Nesbitt
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 29 June 2026
Type: Debate contribution (made as a minister)
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Cancer: Diagnostic Tests: Waiting Times
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5644779

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Part of the answer is funding and resource. The elective care framework implementation and funding plan includes £13 million for endoscopy services and £12 million for diagnostic imaging. When the plan is fully implemented, the investment will deliver approximately 16,500 additional endoscopy procedures and 7,800 imaging sessions each year. It is about having a regional service that is consistent across the five geographic trusts. To encourage that, we have introduced a committee in common, bringing the five trusts together and saying to them, "In many ways, as a Department, we should look on you as one trust. Let us deal with the variation, where it is not appropriate, and make sure that we have consistent regional services".

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