Debate contribution: Health Transformation: Rural Communities
Debate contribution by Mr Andrew Muir on .
- MLA
- Mr Andrew Muir
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 7 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Health Transformation: Rural Communities
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5670090
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I agree 100%. It is nearly 10 years since the Bengoa report. The recommendations of that report resonate loudly with me and should be heard by populist politicians who pretend that difficult decisions can be delayed without real consequences. I will quote from the report, although I should not have to do so 10 years later. It states:
"The stark options facing the HSC system are either to resist change and see services deteriorate to the point of collapse over time, or to embrace transformation and work to create a modern, sustainable service that is properly equipped to help people stay as healthy as possible and to provide them with the right type of care when they need it."
The Health Minister has joined us now, and I urge him to take those decisions.
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