Motion or amendment: Ten Years Since Bengoa

Motion or amendment by Mr Matthew O'Toole on .

MLA
Mr Matthew O'Toole
Party at the time
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date
29 September 2026
Type
Motion or amendment
Business
Motion · Private Members' Motion
Heading
Ten Years Since Bengoa
Assembly identifier
Document 501191

Text

Ten Years Since Bengoa

That this Assembly notes that ten years have passed since the publication of the Bengoa Report, Systems, Not Structures: Changing Health and Social Care which outlined the case for transformation of health and social care in Northern Ireland, including a greater focus on prevention, primary and community care and the delivery of specialist services in a way that improves outcomes for patients; agrees that transformation remains essential to building a sustainable, effective and accessible health service; expresses regret that, despite widespread acceptance of the case for change, progress has been impeded by a collective failure to deliver transformation while maintaining the confidence of patients, staff and communities; believes that communities should be able to see how change will deliver better, safer and more accessible services; and calls on all political parties to work together to establish a new political consensus on health transformation, underpinned by honesty, geographic reality and the public good, and capable of delivering an agreed programme of reform over the next five years.

170 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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