Debate contribution: Health Service Pay Negotiations
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 4 March 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Health Service Pay Negotiations
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4254523
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I thank the Member for that. As I said, we have published updates, and I am committed to working with stakeholders from across the system on the strategy's continued implementation. I again caution, however, that my Department will require significant funding in order to do that. It is encouraging to note that that strategic approach to workforce development has supported an additional 8,911 people — a 15·7% increase — in the whole-time equivalent staff employed directly by the health and social care sector in Northern Ireland between March 2018 and December 2023. That workforce strategy has therefore seen nearly 9,000 additional whole-time equivalent staff employed in our health and social care system.
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