Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw has said the ‘regional approach’ being adopted to try to ensure as many procedures, including surgery, as possible can continue in Northern Ireland will need to be maintained beyond the end of the pandemic. The South Belfast MLA was speaking after it was announced more than 4,200 ‘red flag’ cancer […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has said the Health Committee inquiry on COVID-19 in care homes offers significant challenges for the management of the pandemic and for adult social care reform. The South Belfast MLA was speaking after an Assembly debate, approving the report of the Committee on the inquiry and calling for the […]
Alliance Party Health Spokesperson Paula Bradshaw has welcomed the Health Department’s announcement that a programme of weekly testing for pupils and staff in special educational needs schools is set to be carried out in Northern Ireland. Testing is due to begin at the start of February, subject to business case approval. Paula said: “I welcome […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has said the work of the reference group on mother and baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland but now inform the next steps on delivering truth and justice for victims and survivors of the institutions. The report of the group, following the research report commissioned by the […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has welcomed the publication of a Department of Health plan to eliminate Hepatitis C. The South Belfast MLA stated: “I welcome that the plan is to eliminate Hepatitis C from Northern Ireland by 2025, five years ahead of the WHO’s proposed date for global elimination. “The virus Hepatitis C […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has called for urgent support for district nursing, after Assembly questions revealed 117 vacancies across all Trusts amid vastly increasing casework. The South Belfast MLA stated: “District nursing is often in fact the frontline of the health service, providing what is in effect an extension of primary care in […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has welcomed funding approval for a new perinatal mental health delivery model for Northern Ireland, and applauded those charities who have campaigned many years for such investment. Health Minister Robin Swann announced funding for the model, which will provide new multidisciplinary community perinatal mental health teams in each of the five […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has welcomed clarification domiciliary care workers who work for independent providers will be included alongside dentists, pharmacists and optometrists in the next round of the vaccination programme. However, South Belfast MLA Ms Bradshaw also renewed her call for consideration of all allied health professionals to be included at this […]
South Belfast MLA Paula Bradshaw has welcomed the Human Rights Commission’s challenge to the Northern Ireland Office and the Department of Health for its failure to commission safe and accessible abortion services after they were legalised. The MLA stated: “The ongoing failure to implement the abortion framework is utterly unacceptable. Abortion is a conscience issue […]
Alliance Health spokesperson Paula Bradshaw MLA has welcomed the Health Minister’s announcement he will use all available space in both health and social care (HSC) facilities and the independent sector to deliver surgery, in line with her proposal in media interviews this morning. In a written statement to the Assembly, Robin Swann announced any available […]