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 5644825
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Recent investment has been made via the elective care framework, with seven additional sessions having been funded over a 42-week year as part of the first phase of endoscopy expansion. The bulk of that capacity is being delivered on the SWAH site and includes the provision of an additional consultant post based at the hospital alongside additional nurse endoscopist capacity. Further investment will be made to expand the service in the trust to deliver 50-week working across all endoscopy sessions with appropriate expansion of medical and nursing roles to support that. A funding allocation was recently released to the Western Trust to recurrently fund 10 sessions of CT in the SWAH on the previously uncommissioned backup CT scanner. Two additional MRI sessions have also been recurrently funded in the SWAH, which will ensure that there is full evening and seven-day working for MRI on that acute site.
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