Debate contribution: Annagh and Waterside Medical Practices, Portadown
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
- Annagh and Waterside Medical Practices, Portadown
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4254570
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I thank the Member for raising the issue of GP contracts. He will be aware that, unfortunately, the two practices that he mentioned are not isolated occurrences. I can say that, for all the contracts that have been handed back, we have not seen a practice having to close at any stage, because other options have been brought forward: other trusts' GPs have come forward to take on those contracts, trusts have taken them over or local GP federations have stepped in. There are a number of months to go on that position, and I ask the Member to reassure his constituents, as I do, and to work with my Department and the GP federations to identify and support any future provision and to give reassurance and stabilisation not just to the patients but to the people who work in those practices.
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