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 5584223
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The Member makes a pertinent point. There was a tragedy in the ED at the Royal just a few weeks ago. If I needed convincing, that convinced me that, often, an emergency department is the last place that a patient with mental health issues should go to and wait in. I visited the Mater Hospital a few days ago. It has PATH, a psychiatric assessment and treatment hub, which is a separate room on the first floor that is designed to be an alternative place for mental health patients to go to avoid the ED. The hospital wants to expand that provision, and I would love to see it expanded around all the acute hospitals. I cannot give you the detail on that, but, in my mind, that is the ideal direction of travel.
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