Debate contribution: GP Indemnity Arrangements
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 18 February 2025
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- GP Indemnity Arrangements
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806390
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It is my understanding that we are negotiating with practices rather than with individual GPs. I want to be careful in what I say, because we are not over the line, and it is an issue that, in my assessment, has become quite toxic over the past number of years and is affecting the relationship between the Department and primary care. There are other issues in primary care that we want primary care to address. The primary one is access. I am sure that every Member of the House, as a constituency MLA, has constituents coming to them weekly, if not daily, with issues to do with accessing their GPs. With respect to the Member, I do not want to go any further, because those negotiations are not over the line, and, in my mind, the question of indemnity may open up another discussion about access to primary care.
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