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Edwin Poots` position is becoming untenable – Roy Beggs
Ulster Unionist Health spokesperson, Roy Beggs MLA, has claimed Edwin Poots` position is becoming untenable’ following yet another detailed court ruling against him. Mr Beggs said: “In the UK, ministers do not have absolute power. They must act lawfully and follow the due process when appointing individuals to public bodies. “It must be of concern to every fair-minded individual that the Minister has been accused by a judge in his detailed ruling of breaching the legal appointment process, of “frustrating” public law obligations and of excluding trade unionists and their members from appointment to certain public bodies on the basis of their status or class. “With yet another detailed court ruling against Edwin Poots, his position is becoming untenable.”
Beggs hits out at latest “shocking” A&E Waiting Time statistics
Beggs hits out at latest “shocking” A&E Waiting Time statistics The Ulster Unionist Party’s Health spokesperson Roy Beggs MLA has described the latest statistics to be released (for April) regarding Accident & Emergency waiting time statistics as “truly shocking”. Mr Beggs said: “According to Provisional Emergency Care Waiting Time Information for April 2013, the percentage of patients being seen within four hours at A&E departments were 62.8% at Antrim Area, 61.6% at Craigavon Area, 61.3% at the Ulster Hospital and 59.5% at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. These are truly shocking statistics. Only last week the BBC reported how the NHS in England and Wales was deemed to be in crisis due to the number of hospitals whose A&E departments were failing to meet the 95% target for seeing patients within four hours. To put things in perspective, the statistics for last month show that in Northern Ireland only … Continue reading
