Debate contribution: Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 20 April 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Question for Urgent Oral Answer
- Heading
- Excess Deaths Linked to Long Emergency Department Waits
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5493766
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Text
I do not have a geographical breakdown, but I can certainly ask whether one can be made available or whether we can do the research to provide the Member with one. To be clear, when I said that there has been a small decrease, I said clearly that that was not a trend. It is not good enough. Yes, we say that those figures are shocking, but they are very similar to those for last year and the year before. In one sense, they should not be shocking, but they are shocking because of their scale.
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