Debate contribution: Ambulance Service: Category 2 Calls

Debate contribution by Mr Alan Chambers on 24 March 2026.

MLA: Mr Alan Chambers
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 24 March 2026
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Ambulance Service: Category 2 Calls
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 5463173

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I am glad that a further meeting is planned in the coming days. Whilst ambulance capacity continues to be lost due to prolonged hospital handover delays, I very much welcome the significant improvements that have been made in recent months. Is the Minister hopeful that, whilst all-year-round pressures will, no doubt, remain, we are through the worst of the winter pressures and, therefore, securing a sustainable end-of-shift protocol should be more achievable?

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