Debate contribution: Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
Debate contribution by Mrs Pam Cameron on .
- MLA
- Mrs Pam Cameron
- 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 5493747
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Text
Minister, one line stands out in Royal College of Emergency Medicine's press release, which is that Northern Ireland:
"has the highest rates of long waits in EDs, and deaths per capita resulting from them, of any UK nation."
It further states that almost 20 lives are lost each week because of long waits in ED. That is a catastrophic situation. The fact that the winter plan was threadbare has been outlined to you. What will you do to ensure that other families are spared such grief and that no more lives are lost?
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