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‘Executive needed urgently to start fixing health service’ – Gildernew
Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew calls for a new Executive without delay to tackle health service problems, including recruiting more doctors and nurses, cutting waiting lists and investing in cancer and mental health care. He blames the DUP's refusal to let the Assembly and Executive function for…
Health Issue: Health minister Robin Swann meeting on Executive formation and health service pressures Original release: ‘Executive needed urgently to start fixing health service’ – Gildernew (opens in a new tab)
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Ní Chuilín urges solution to Iveagh Centre crisis
Health Original release: Ní Chuilín urges solution to Iveagh Centre crisis (opens in a new tab)
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‘Patients cannot wait any longer for a functioning Executive’ – Gildernew
Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew calls for an Executive to be formed now, with £1 billion of extra health funding, after reports of around 300 more deaths than expected this year. He urges the DUP to end its boycott of government and says his party will meet the health minister on recruitment and…
Health Public finance and taxation Issue: Reports of 300 excess deaths in health service pressures Original release: ‘Patients cannot wait any longer for a functioning Executive’ – Gildernew (opens in a new tab)
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Health Minister must tackle Gender Identity Clinic Staff Shortages – Sheerin
Sinn Féin MLA Emma Sheerin urges the Health Minister to tackle staffing gaps at the Brackenburn gender identity clinic, where over 500 people were reportedly waiting as of April. She links the problem to a need for an Executive to fund extra health recruitment.
Health Disability and equality Issue: Brackenburn gender identity clinic waiting list and staffing shortages Original release: Health Minister must tackle Gender Identity Clinic Staff Shortages – Sheerin (opens in a new tab)
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Hunter expresses concern at wait for smear test results
SDLP East Derry MLA Cara Hunter says she is very concerned that every health trust in the North has missed its four-week target for reporting smear test results. She warns that long waits could delay treatment for cervical cancer and calls for better for women.
Health Issue: Health trusts miss four-week smear test results target Original release: Hunter expresses concern at wait for smear test results (opens in a new tab)
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Executive must be formed to secure funding for mental health projects – Flynn
Sinn Féin MLA Órlaithí Flynn urges the DUP to end its blocking of a new Executive, after health officials flagged a £3 million shortfall in mental health and suicide prevention funding. She says she has contacted the Health Minister about protecting these services.
Health Public finance and taxation Issue: Health officials report £3 million shortfall in mental health and suicide prevention funding Original release: Executive must be formed to secure funding for mental health projects – Flynn (opens in a new tab)
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Drip feed of Neurology recalls is traumatic for patients – Ní Chuilín
Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín calls on the Belfast Trust to keep all patients affected by the neurology scandal updated as a further 19 cases are reviewed in the fifth recall. She says the repeated recalls are traumatic and urges a thorough, transparent investigation.
Health Issue: Belfast Trust neurology patient recall of further 19 cases Original release: Drip feed of Neurology recalls is traumatic for patients – Ní Chuilín (opens in a new tab)
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Quest for truth and justice goes on for victims of neurology scandal, says Bradshaw
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA says much work remains beyond the Independent Neurology Inquiry to deliver truth and justice for families bereaved by misdiagnoses. She calls for urgent assurance that the failings are not ongoing and for families to get immediate access to the truth.
Health Issue: Independent Neurology Inquiry report publication Original release: Quest for truth and justice goes on for victims of neurology scandal, says Bradshaw (opens in a new tab)
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Executive needed to extend electronic death certification – Gildernew
Sinn Féin MLA Colm Gildernew says the temporary law allowing doctors to certify deaths electronically will lapse in three weeks, blaming the DUP's Executive stalemate, and backs calls to extend it.
Health Issue: Temporary electronic death certification law set to expire Original release: Executive needed to extend electronic death certification – Gildernew (opens in a new tab)
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McCrossan supports striking Housing Executive staff
SDLP West Tyrone MLA Daniel McCrossan backs around 300 Housing Executive staff striking from Monday over pay, and urges the Housing Executive to engage with staff and unions on a pay agreement.
Economy and employment Housing Issue: Housing Executive staff strike over pay offer Original release: McCrossan supports striking Housing Executive staff (opens in a new tab)
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Those affected by Health and Social Care scandals deserve openness and transparency – Ní Chuilín
Sinn Féin MLA Carál Ní Chuilín says she stood with families affected by Health and Social Care scandals, including Hyponatraemia, Neurology, Mesh, Muckamore and Care Homes, at a rally. She calls for the Health Minister to meet these groups and update them on responses to two public inquiries and a…
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Brogan welcomes plan for two new special schools
Sinn Féin MLA Nicola Brogan welcomes Education Authority plans to build two new special schools, citing a rise of about 500 pupils in special schools in a year to around 7,150 in September 2022.
Education Disability and equality Issue: Education Authority plan to build two new special schools Original release: Brogan welcomes plan for two new special schools (opens in a new tab)
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Sheehan welcomes plan to increase Irish medium schools
Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan welcomes Education Authority plans to expand Irish-medium post-primary provision across the north, citing rising enrolments. He calls on the EA to deliver the plan and secure new first-class facilities for Irish-language pupils.
Education Disability and equality Issue: Education Authority Irish-medium post-primary expansion plan Original release: Sheehan welcomes plan to increase Irish medium schools (opens in a new tab)
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Alliance representatives discuss way forward with Haemophilia NI at Stormont
Alliance Party health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw says the party will keep pressing for urgent recognition payments for contaminated blood scandal victims, so Northern Ireland is not left behind, after meeting Haemophilia NI at Stormont. North Down MP Stephen Farry calls for a fully implemented…
Health Issue: Haemophilia NI meeting at Stormont on contaminated blood scandal recognition Original release: Alliance representatives discuss way forward with Haemophilia NI at Stormont (opens in a new tab)
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“Postcode lottery” reinforces need for urgent reconfiguration of stroke services, says Bradshaw
Alliance Health Spokesperson Paula Bradshaw, South Belfast MLA, warns a postcode lottery in stroke care will persist while full reconfiguration is delayed, and calls for swift decisions on hyperacute units so people across Northern Ireland get consistent access.
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Alliance continues to fight for GP surgery solution in North Down
Alliance says it has learned possible new operators have shown interest in taking over Priory and Springhill GP surgeries in Holywood and Bangor, and calls for the Department of Health to press ahead while preparing a Trust fallback. Its MLAs and MP also write to the Health Minister and Chancellor…
Health Issue: Priory and Springhill GP surgeries future in Holywood and Bangor Original release: Alliance continues to fight for GP surgery solution in North Down (opens in a new tab)
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Durkan: NIHE property maintenance in disarray as contractors walk away
SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan raises serious concerns after 11 of 13 contractors left NIHE maintenance contracts worth £455m, warning of impact on 85,000 properties. He says Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey was lackadaisical and calls on her and NIHE to act urgently.
Housing Economy and employment Issue: NIHE maintenance contractors terminate £455m contracts Original release: Durkan: NIHE property maintenance in disarray as contractors walk away (opens in a new tab)
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McGrath: Doctors’ concerns must be addressed
SDLP Health Spokesperson Colin McGrath warns that doctors' concerns over pay, working conditions and the state of the health service must be addressed, citing a BMA survey in which most doctors judged a proposed pay rise inadequate and junior doctors signalled possible departures from the North.
Health Economy and employment Issue: BMA survey on doctors' pay and working conditions Original release: McGrath: Doctors’ concerns must be addressed (opens in a new tab)
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Tennyson launches new All Party Group on LGBTQIA+ Equality
Alliance MLA Eóin Tennyson says he is launching an All Party Group on LGBTQIA+ Equality to make LGBTQIA+ rights a priority this Assembly term. It will examine healthcare inequalities, school bullying, hate crime, the long-delayed LGBTQI+ strategy and banning conversion therapy.
Disability and equality Issue: Launch of All Party Group on LGBTQIA+ Equality Original release: Tennyson launches new All Party Group on LGBTQIA+ Equality (opens in a new tab)
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More money for domiciliary care would help free up entire system, says Bradshaw
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA calls for more money for domiciliary care and district nursing to secure fair pay, improve home care and free up hospital space. She also says basic care call times should rise to half an hour, and East Antrim MLA Danny Donnelly urges prioritising…
Health Public finance and taxation Original release: More money for domiciliary care would help free up entire system, says Bradshaw (opens in a new tab)