Debate contribution: Women's Health Strategy
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 5 May 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Women's Health Strategy
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5524601
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I thank the Member for his question. Our lifespan gender service model is not a new service; rather, existing services are being merged into one. Nothing is changing in the criteria or the parameters from the model of care that has been commissioned for over a decade. However, the new service will take account of the Cass review, which called for multidisciplinary teams to be developed in regional centres. That investment will ensure that that recommended approach is taken in line with other United Kingdom jurisdictions. The creation of two senior psychologist posts will greatly bolster the multidisciplinary team, and I will rely on them to make the right calls.
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