Debate contribution: Altnagelvin Area Hospital: Emergency Department
Debate contribution by Mr Mike Nesbitt on .
- MLA
- Mr Mike Nesbitt
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 2 June 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Altnagelvin Area Hospital: Emergency Department
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5584215
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I am aware that the numbers are way beyond what the capacity and the build were intended to meet. We are trying to create alternative pathways, such as urgent care, and to make sure that only people who really need the emergency department present there. I am aware that Altnagelvin is the oldest of the big emergency departments in the region. I have visited it when it has been extremely busy. It is nowhere near where we want it to be, not just for the patients but for the staff. I say again that they make decisions that are not the best decisions that they have been trained to provide but the least worst ones, because that is the environment in which they operate.
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