Motion or amendment: Waiting Lists Affecting Winter Preparedness
Motion or amendment by Ms Paula Bradshaw on .
- MLA
- Ms Paula Bradshaw
- Party at the time
- Alliance Party
- Date
- 6 January 2026
- Type
- Motion or amendment
- Business
- Motion · Private Members' Motion
- Heading
- Waiting Lists Affecting Winter Preparedness
- Assembly identifier
- Document 464875
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Waiting Lists Affecting Winter Preparedness
That this Assembly deplores the appalling pressures being faced by both patients and staff in emergency departments; expresses particular concern that this was entirely foreseeable but that planning was not carried out early enough; expresses alarm at the ongoing failure to address hospital throughput issues identified in the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council Sustainability Report 2022: special focus - Health, which contributes to the number of people being left in corridors or ambulances; recognises that those who need access to, or work in, emergency departments have been let down by a failure to take early and specific action to address waiting times; and calls for an assurance, matched by a clearly set out timeline, that winter pressures planning for 2026-27 will proceed much earlier with detailed plans published no later than the summer of 2026.
139 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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