Debate contribution: South West Acute Hospital: Elective Overnight Stay Centre
Debate contribution by Mr Robbie Butler on .
- MLA
- Mr Robbie Butler
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- South West Acute Hospital: Elective Overnight Stay Centre
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5742302
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That is a live topic, not only at the SWAH, evidently. The SWAH remains an important part of the Northern Ireland hospital network, continuing to provide a type-1 emergency department, intensive care, maternity services and a range of elective services. The elective overnight stay centre provides a range of surgical procedures and remains an important component of elective care delivery. The trust is working with stakeholders to develop its vision for Fermanagh and west Tyrone. That work is intended to establish a clinically safe and sustainable framework for health and social care services across the area, which includes the SWAH, the Omagh hospital and primary care complex, community services and primary care. Any proposal for a permanent change to emergency general surgery services at the SWAH requires appropriate supporting evidence and would be taken forward through established commissioning governance and assurance processes. My Department continues to engage with the trust on work in that space.
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