Debate contribution: Diabetes: Postcode Lotteries
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
- Diabetes: Postcode Lotteries
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4806451
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I thank the Member for his follow-up question. I do not have a specific answer for him on that transition, but, across a number of healthcare services, transitioning to adulthood is far from good enough in my opinion. It is an issue that has exercised me since taking up post. I think, for example, of ADHD and autism. For children with learning disabilities, there tends to be what is commonly known as a "cliff edge" when you transition to adulthood. That should not be the case. It has been so for some time and it is time to say enough is enough, and we need to address it. I thank the Member for alerting me that that also includes the issue of diabetes. It is now on my radar, and I thank him.
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