Delays to Flagship Maternity and Children’s Hospital Project
That this Assembly deplores the lack of progress, and action, towards transforming our health service since the restoration of the Executive; believes it is unacceptable, given that the Department of Health accounts for over half of all day-to-day spend from the public purse, that people across Northern Ireland have experienced little practical benefit, with hundreds of thousands languishing on waiting lists or struggling to access timely health and social care; points out that the recent draft framework for the reconfiguration of hospitals lacks detail, as well as concrete plans for reform; is concerned that the flagship Maternity and Children’s Hospital project has been beset by unprecedented delays and eye-watering costs, driven largely by the contamination of water systems on the Royal Victoria site; expresses alarm that the Children’s Hospital, in particular, will not be operational before 2030, ten years later than anticipated; and calls on the Minister of Health to ensure these failings cannot be repeated by commissioning a full and independent inquiry into the handling of the Maternity and Children’s Hospital project to date, including the handover of the Maternity Hospital to Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in March 2024.
Private Members' Motion
12/11/2024
12/11/2024
26/11/2024
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