Debate contribution: Hip Surgery: Waiting Times
Debate contribution by Mrs Linda Dillon on .
- MLA
- Mrs Linda Dillon
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Hip Surgery: Waiting Times
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742271
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Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle.
For clarity, Mr Kingston, the requirement was reduced from two years to one year after we raised the matter at the Health Committee. We raised it because the money for the reimbursement scheme is not being spent, and it is not being spent because of the qualifying period. Minister, I therefore ask you to give a commitment to the House to remove the one-year waiting period. Many people who work in the NHS are unable to get the surgeries that they require and are having to take long-term sick leave because they cannot avail themselves of the reimbursement scheme. Uptake, because of the one-year waiting period, is not good, so I ask you to give us a commitment that you will remove that stipulation in order to allow people to have surgeries in a much more timely manner.
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