Debate contribution: Breast Cancer: Detection and Treatment Times

Debate contribution by Mr Colin McGrath on 3 November 2025.

MLA: Mr Colin McGrath
Party at the time: Social Democratic and Labour Party
Date: 3 November 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Breast Cancer: Detection and Treatment Times
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5213284

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Minister, your party has held the Health portfolio for most of the past 10 years, except for those times when, inexcusably, this place was down. In the past 10 years, however, the percentage of patients that are being seen within the14 days has gone from 84% down to 6%. Will you develop a specific plan to address that matter that, as Members detailed, is more than what you have been offering us, which is just regionalising the service and making everybody deal with long waiting lists?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1721/22-27.

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