Debate contribution: Waiting Lists
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 May 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Waiting Lists
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4491663
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I can absolutely assure the Member that I have done so. As I said in an earlier answer to Mrs Dodds, I have an updated assessment of where we are on the elective care framework. I first published that framework in June 2021, and, with an ambitious investment of £570 million, it would have tackled waiting lists over a five-year period. Unfortunately, that finance was not there in the two years that the Assembly did not sit, and, at this minute in time, no additional moneys are earmarked for that in this financial year. We have continued to work on where we are with the elective care framework, looking at our day-case procedure units, our overnight elective care centres, our rapid diagnostic centres and our post-anaesthetic care unit beds to determine how we utilise the resource that we have in making further use of that estate. On the financial outlook, I have engaged a Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report and brought in professionals from England to look at our back office and management spending across trusts. They are in place. Our trusts have been asked to look at the impact that their budget allocation will have — which procedures will they have to cease? — and to come forward with that information by the end of this month.
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