Debate contribution: Ambulance Service: Patient Handover Times

Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on 27 January 2025.

MLA: Mr Colin McGrath
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 27 January 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Ambulance Service: Patient Handover Times
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4759138

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Politely, Minister, that is not good enough. The majority of your answer was a regurgitation of the problem. You identify flow as being the issue, which will take considerable time to resolve. We need to sort out the problem with ambulance handovers now. Otherwise, we will deprive people in our communities of a 999 call. There will be no ambulance for them, which is totally unacceptable. What can we do now to fix the problem of ambulance handovers?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 941/22-27.

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