Debate contribution: Western Health and Social Care Trust Vision Plan

Debate contribution by Mrs Deborah Erskine on 29 June 2026.

MLA: Mrs Deborah Erskine
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 29 June 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Western Health and Social Care Trust Vision Plan
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5644801

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I thank the Minister for his comments about the Western Trust's chair. I, too, pass on my sympathies to his family. Minister, we had the pause to the emergency general surgery consultation process last July. You asked the trust to provide a vision plan. I am quite surprised by your answer, because I, as an elected representative, have not heard exactly what the result of that vision plan will be. Your Department has not even produced its own hospital reconfiguration plan, so how do the two match up? We have had the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) report, which worryingly stated that we have no extra ambulance cover.

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 3805/22-27.

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