Debate contribution: Hip Surgery: Waiting Times
Debate contribution by Ms Sinéad McLaughlin on .
- MLA
- Ms Sinéad McLaughlin
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Hip Surgery: Waiting Times
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742281
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Minister, your predecessor recognised that deprivation and regional inequality have a direct impact on health outcomes. With patients in Altnagelvin Area Hospital facing lengthy waits for hip surgery and everything else, what are you doing to ensure that that inequality is not being compounded by unequal access to treatment?
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