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  2. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I like to get out and about every week. I have been to the SWAH. I have been to most hospitals in Northern Ireland over the course of the months that I have been in charge. I meet not just managers but people who are delivering services, including those overnight services. However, as regards a strategic review, that…

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  3. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    It is positive news that four additional consultants have been placed at the SWAH. Has the Minister met any of the representative bodies on the efficiency of the elective care, not just particular to the SWAH but to all the elective care overnight and day procedure hubs across Northern Ireland?

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  4. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    The two issues are the quantum of the budget and the fact that it is a single-year budget. I have said before that I am optimistic that, if we do not get to multi-year budgets for 2025-26, I see no reason why we cannot get there for 2026-27, not least because the Labour Government will have embedded themselves both in…

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  5. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    I saw in a recent media report that, in the past four years, £150 million from the public purse has been paid to private providers. Does that point to a capacity issue? I had a meeting recently with the trust in relation to the SWAH and it said that it had a demand/capacity gap, which it is looking to sort out, and it…

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  6. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    Thank you so much, Mr Speaker. I am going to have to get back to the Member, but I will say that there are successes in the transformation programme that we have undertaken since Professor Bengoa was first here in 2016. The elective overnight stay centres and the day procedure centres are a part of that. Primary care…

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  7. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    Daisy Hill is one of the elective overnight stay centres, and it has been doing fantastic work to date. However, there is always room for more. What consideration have the Minister and his Department given to potentially expanding it to include orthopaedic surgeries? That is one of our biggest waiting lists, and many…

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  8. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    'Hospitals — Creating a Network for Better Outcomes' clearly states that it is about the reconfiguration of the network of acute hospitals, of which the South West Acute Hospital is and remains a part. The proposed designation of SWAH as a general hospital refers to the tier at which it sits in the network and is not…

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  9. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    I thank the Minister for that very reassuring update. I am particularly pleased to hear that the hospital is delivering more elective activity than ever. In light of some of the recent concern in the local area that the South West Acute Hospital is facing a downgrade following the publication of the network document,…

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  10. Debate contribution: Elective Care: SWAH

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    It is all going very well here. The South West Acute Hospital is a very important asset in the Northern Ireland health service estate. I have had the pleasure of visiting the hospital on a number of occasions in recent months. Indeed, I visited it most recently with the Member. I saw again how accessible and modern…

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  13. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    It is intended that the additional funding will assist with increasing short-break capacity and expanding family, therapeutic and behavioural supports in the community right across all five geographic trusts. It is very important to recognise that overnight residential short breaks are only one part of the continuum…

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  14. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    I, too, join colleagues in thanking the Minister for his proactive approach on the matter. Will the Minister give a commitment that, when it comes to the allocation of funding, the trusts and his Department will work at pace to see tangible proposals and the delivery of support on the ground?

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  15. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I assure the Member that I am very focused on that. I see that she is wearing a Heart Failure Warriors badge, as I am, after visiting the group in the Long Gallery earlier. We heard the two sisters on Radio Ulster this morning. One is in the Southern Trust area, and one is in the Northern Trust area, and there is a…

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  17. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    Minister, I thank you, because you have reacted to a pretty appalling situation across Northern Ireland. My question is on the differentials between the offerings in different trust areas. I have been involved in a case in which the parents moved from the Southern Trust, where they had overnight stays, to the South…

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  18. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I give the Member that assurance. The important thing is to recognise that co-design means starting with as close as possible to a blank page and asking the service users, "What do you want, what obstacles are in your way and how can we overcome them?". We got to a point where residential care in particular was being…

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  20. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    Thank you, Minister. I welcome your answer. It fleshed out a wee bit what we had been told about the funding. Will you give an assurance that accountability mechanisms have been put in place to ensure that the funding makes a real difference to young people with additional needs and their families, particularly given…

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  21. Debate contribution: Children with Disabilities: Funding

    • Mr Mike Nesbitt UUP
    • Oral Answers to Questions
    • As a minister

    I thank the Member for her question. As she will be aware, I was pleased recently to approve additional regional funding for children with disability services, despite the financial circumstances facing my Department. That funding allocation will enable up to £2 million to be spent over the rest of this financial…

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  23. Debate contribution: EU Relationship

    I appreciate the disquisition on the Alliance Party: I am always up for that. However, given the Member's views about the democratic consent process and the scrutiny Committee, does he agree that having some kind of representation in the EU Parliament would be a positive step forward?

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