Debate contribution: Industrial Action by Doctors
Debate contribution by Mr Philip McGuigan on .
- MLA
- Mr Philip McGuigan
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 22 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Industrial Action by Doctors
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5638390
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When I engage with health service sectors as my party's health spokesperson, there is not one that does not talk about workforce pressures and problems with staff recruitment and retention. That is clearly the case with doctors. There is clear evidence that doctors in particular have better pay and conditions in the South and that we are losing staff to the South as a result. What is the Minister's assessment of that? What have he and his Department done to try to retain doctors here in the North?
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