Debate contribution: Emergency General Surgery: South West Acute Hospital
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
- Emergency General Surgery: South West Acute Hospital
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5524692
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The Member will be aware of the process. A consultation was under way, but I was not happy with it, so I contacted the Western Trust. I could not instruct the trust to pause the consultation, but I am grateful that it agreed to do so and that it eventually decided to scrap it. I then encouraged the trust to come up with a broader vision for the South West Acute Hospital, because, as I have said in the House, it is a pity that we put an exclusive — I stress the word "exclusive" — focus on one service that is not available in the South West Acute Hospital at the expense of celebrating the many successful processes and procedures that take place there.
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