Debate contribution: Western Health and Social Care Trust Vision Plan
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- 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
- Western Health and Social Care Trust Vision Plan
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5644799
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I spoke during Members' statements earlier about the untimely passing of the Western Trust's chair, Dr Tom Frawley CBE. I repeat my condolences to his family, his friends and his many admirers. The Western Trust's vision for Fermanagh and west Tyrone is intended to provide a long-term framework for the delivery of health and social care services right across the area, including at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH), at the Omagh Hospital and Primary Care Complex, in community services and in primary care. Members will recall that that work is happening after an intervention that I made last summer. The vision has now moved from its early engagement phase to the important formal public engagement phase, which commenced earlier this month. As Minister, I have had the pleasure of visiting the SWAH on multiple occasions. It is a superb facility. The vision is wider than a single-service issue. It is an essential step in setting out how services can be configured in a way that is future-proofed, clinically safe and responsive to local need.
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