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Roy Questions Minister and Officials on Care Homes at Stormont Health Committee
The Stormont Committee on Health, Social Services and Public Safety received a briefing from Health Minister Edwin Poots and senior officials including John Compton- Chair of the Health and Social Care Board on “Residential Homes — Proposed Closures”. Ulster Unionist Party MLA Roy Beggs asked the following questions: Mr Beggs: I want to talk about this issue of being surprised at the speed at which the trusts wish to close residential care homes. Given that four or five years earlier some of the trusts wanted to close all the homes, why did it surprise you that some of them wanted to go to the max of their capability in TYC? Mr Compton: We thought that because we had process that had worked locally in the South Eastern and Belfast Trust areas, where we closed homes that tended to be very local and have a very local debate about the particular … Continue reading
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Tagged Beggs, Compton, Health Committee, Poots, Residential Care Homes, TYC, Ulster Unionist Party
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Poots Ignored Warnings about Residential Care Homes Last year: Beggs
Poots was warned of Care Home risks a year ago – Beggs Ulster Unionist Party Health spokesperson Roy Beggs MLA, has revealed that the Health Minister Edwin Poots ignored warnings received more than a year ago from the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland in relation to the proposed closure ofResidential Care Homes in Carrickfergus, Larne and Newtownabbey. Mr Beggs said: “Vulnerable people living at the Greenisland, Joymount, Lisgarel and Clonmore Residential Homes will have been significantly distressed by the DUP Health Minister, Edwin Poots failure to follow the guidance given to him by the Older Person’s Commissioner. More than a year ago, on the 18th April 2012, Claire Keatinge the Commissioner for Older People in Northern Ireland handed a Briefing Note to the Health Minister at a meeting in Castle Buildings. The Agenda was listed as “Planned closure of statutory residential homes across Northern Ireland as identified in … Continue reading
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Asthma Care Campaign Launched at Stormont
Ulster Unionist MLA for East Antrim Roy Beggs Jnr attended a World Asthma Day event at Stormont this week where Asthma UK Northern Ireland launched the Compare Your Care campaign, to help people with asthma find out if they are getting the care they deserve. Speaking at the launch, Mr Beggs who is a member of the Stormont Health Committee said: “It is interesting to learn that every year in Northern Ireland, over 1,700 people are hospitalised because of a potentially fatal asthma attack, yet three quarters of hospital admissions could be prevented with the right care and management. Local pharmacists can play a key role in monitoring and advising patients on the effective treatment of Asthma enabling a better life experience and reducing the need for emergency treatment.” From May 2013, community pharmacies will be contracted to offer ‘Medicines Use Reviews’ (MURs) for the first time in Northern Ireland. … Continue reading
New Ward Opens at Antrim. New A&E in June
East Antrim MLA and Ulster Unionist spokesman on health Roy Beggs Jnr has welcomed the opening of a new 24 bed ward at Antrim Area hospital, and the imminent opening of a new Accident and Emergency unit at the crisis hit hospital. Mrs Beggs, in wake of continuing service failures and missed targets at Antrim A&E, placed an Assembly question to the Minister of Health, “Given that Antrim Area Hospital Accidents and Emergency Department was designed to deal with 30,000 patients per year but receives 72,000 patients per year, what additional resources have been made available to staff in the Accident and Emergency Department?” The Ministerial reply refers to the opening on 17th April of a new 24 bed ward and “a new £9M state of the art emergency has been constructed which will cater for up to 90,000 attendances a year. The new unit is expected to be operational … Continue reading
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Tagged A&E, Antrim Area Hospital, Beggs, UUP
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Residential Homes Closure Proposal Causing Uncertainty and Stress
Speaking about the local implications of the current proposals to shut the all the remaining Northern Trust Residential Homes local Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs commented: “This consultation has caused great short term uncertainty and stress for vulnerable residents and their families.” I have asked questions and made public comment at Stormont highlighting this issue since Transforming Your Care was published late in 2011. I also highlighted my concerns in my response to the consultation document. In the background I have been working with relatives of residents in the Lisgarel in Larne helping to establish a Friends of Lisgarel support group. That work is on-going Sadly, rather than acknowledge and address these concerns, Health officials and the Minster appear to want to accelerate the closure programme. From personal family experience over the past year, I have seen how vital respite and rehabilitation services have been provided at these Trust Residential … Continue reading
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Tagged Beggs, Clonmore, DUP U turn, East Antrim, Greenisland House, Health, Joymount, Lisgarel, NHSST, Poots
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