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03/07/2002
Health Minister details £110m allocations
The Health Minister, Bairbre De Brún has spelled out exactly where her department’s share of the Executive’s £270 million reform and reinvestment financial package is going.
Yesterday the First and Deputy First Minister’s told the Northern Ireland Assembly that the Department of Health was to receive the top allocation of £110 million.
Today Ms de Brún said, in line with her priorities for the NHS, cancer services were to receive almost £60m, around half of her department’s spending. Yesterday the minister gave the go ahead for work to begin on the construction of a new Cancer Centre at Belfast City Hospital.
Meanwhile the Minister explained that a custom built Chemotherapy Unit at Antrim Area Hospital would be put in place to enable the hospital to fulfil its role as a Cancer Unit.
The Minister also announced additional investment on the Belvoir Park Hospital site saying: “We need to focus on the patients of today. I am putting in place a new CT scanner at Belvoir at a cost of £742,000 to increase throughput and reduce waiting times.”
The ambulance service is also set to gain, with £16.2m worth of funding being provided to cater for 115 replacement ambulances and an extra 20 new vehicles, alongside a long term improvement plan. In addition there is to be a new centralised ambulance control and more ambulance locations.
The Mid-Ulster Hospital in Magherafelt, which is earmarked to be downgraded, is to get a CT scanner - an x-ray scanner often used to diagnose cancer.
Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast gets two new theatres, while the Erne in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, gets a new day procedure unit.
In the area of learning disability, the minister pointed out that facilities at Muckamore Abbey and at Stradreagh Hospital were outdated oversized and not fit for purpose.
“I am delighted therefore that I am able to direct over £11m to these two sites,” she said.
“The programme I have outlined today is ambitious and diverse,” the minister concluded.
“This investment package provides potential. It provides opportunity. This opportunity must be realised – by a substantial sustained programme of investment, investment in people, investment in skilled staff and further investment in tackling the infrastructure deficit.”
(AMcE)
Yesterday the First and Deputy First Minister’s told the Northern Ireland Assembly that the Department of Health was to receive the top allocation of £110 million.
Today Ms de Brún said, in line with her priorities for the NHS, cancer services were to receive almost £60m, around half of her department’s spending. Yesterday the minister gave the go ahead for work to begin on the construction of a new Cancer Centre at Belfast City Hospital.
Meanwhile the Minister explained that a custom built Chemotherapy Unit at Antrim Area Hospital would be put in place to enable the hospital to fulfil its role as a Cancer Unit.
The Minister also announced additional investment on the Belvoir Park Hospital site saying: “We need to focus on the patients of today. I am putting in place a new CT scanner at Belvoir at a cost of £742,000 to increase throughput and reduce waiting times.”
The ambulance service is also set to gain, with £16.2m worth of funding being provided to cater for 115 replacement ambulances and an extra 20 new vehicles, alongside a long term improvement plan. In addition there is to be a new centralised ambulance control and more ambulance locations.
The Mid-Ulster Hospital in Magherafelt, which is earmarked to be downgraded, is to get a CT scanner - an x-ray scanner often used to diagnose cancer.
Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast gets two new theatres, while the Erne in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, gets a new day procedure unit.
In the area of learning disability, the minister pointed out that facilities at Muckamore Abbey and at Stradreagh Hospital were outdated oversized and not fit for purpose.
“I am delighted therefore that I am able to direct over £11m to these two sites,” she said.
“The programme I have outlined today is ambitious and diverse,” the minister concluded.
“This investment package provides potential. It provides opportunity. This opportunity must be realised – by a substantial sustained programme of investment, investment in people, investment in skilled staff and further investment in tackling the infrastructure deficit.”
(AMcE)
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