Debate contribution: Screening: PHA/HSCT Interaction
Debate contribution by Mrs Diane Dodds on .
- MLA
- Mrs Diane Dodds
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Screening: PHA/HSCT Interaction
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806326
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Minister, I noticed that you did not answer the last question. The Belfast Trust has been given the contract for the regional cervical screening programme for Northern Ireland, despite the fact that it is not yet accredited for such screening. Is the Minister satisfied with the decision to award the contract to the Belfast Trust? During a recent Committee meeting in Daisy Hill Hospital, the PHA admitted that it was short-staffed and was having to send tests to Gateshead in Newcastle to clear a backlog of screening. In awarding the contract in that way, the Minister bypassed two trusts — the Northern Trust and the Western Trust — that are fully accredited.
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