Debate contribution: Haemochromatosis: Early Screening
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 (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Haemochromatosis: Early Screening
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806427
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I will answer that question with a generalisation. Although we have five geographic health trusts, it is my ambition that the trusts will deliver standardised, regional services that are consistent no matter the condition or issue that they address. One of the challenges that I have put to the chairs and chief execs of the trusts is to find where best practice exists in treating any particular condition, roll it out and make it common practice across the trusts. The logic of that is compelling, and, nine months in, I have yet to fully understand the barriers and obstacles to that happening. They clearly exist, however, because we still have what are commonly referred to as postcode lotteries. We have to stop that. We have to have health equity. Everybody has to be able to get a best-practice service when they need it.
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