Debate contribution: Clinical Variation

Debate contribution by Dr Steve Aiken OBE on 3 November 2025.

MLA: Dr Steve Aiken OBE
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 3 November 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Clinical Variation
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5213207

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Is the Minister confident that his appointment of Professor Mark Taylor as the clinical lead for reducing Northern Ireland's waiting times will serve as an important opportunity for a focus on why the number of procedures delivered on hospital theatre lists can sometimes differ from what are independently recognised baselines, such as those in Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT)?

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 2612/22-27.

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