Debate contribution: Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
Debate contribution by Mr Alan Robinson on .
- MLA
- Mr Alan Robinson
- Party at the time
- Democratic Unionist Party
- Date
- 20 April 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5493721
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There is a lot of focus in the report on the large number of deaths, and rightly so. Minister, how are staff in emergency departments being affected by current pressures, and how is the Department supporting ED staff, given the reports of stress, poor mental health and unsafe working environments?
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