Emergency Departments at Craigavon Hospital and Daisy Hill in Newry 'both vital' to the Southern Trust area says SDLP

The protection of both Craigavon Area Hospital and Daisy Hill Emergency Departments is ‘vital for the health and wellness of people across the Southern Health Trust’, the SDLP insist.
By Carmel Robinson
Published 29th Nov 2022, 15:16 BST
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Newry and Armagh MLA Justine McNulty was speaking after a visit to Craigavon Area Hospital with SDLP Portadown Councillor Eamon McNeill.

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The protection of both Craigavon Area Hospital and Daisy Hill Emergency Departments is ‘vital for the health and wellness of people across the Southern Health Trust’, the SDLP insist. Pictured at Craigavon Hospital are Portadown based Cllr Eamon McNeill who sits on Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council and MLA for Newry and Armagh Justin McNulty.The protection of both Craigavon Area Hospital and Daisy Hill Emergency Departments is ‘vital for the health and wellness of people across the Southern Health Trust’, the SDLP insist. Pictured at Craigavon Hospital are Portadown based Cllr Eamon McNeill who sits on Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council and MLA for Newry and Armagh Justin McNulty.
The protection of both Craigavon Area Hospital and Daisy Hill Emergency Departments is ‘vital for the health and wellness of people across the Southern Health Trust’, the SDLP insist. Pictured at Craigavon Hospital are Portadown based Cllr Eamon McNeill who sits on Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon Council and MLA for Newry and Armagh Justin McNulty.

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Mr McNulty said: “Once again, I was deeply inspired by the resilience of everyone I came in to contact with in Craigavon Emergency Department. I just wish that their resilience wasn’t tested so often. Everyone has a breaking point.

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“There are massive pressures on our doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, porters, paramedics and support & clerical staff. It is incredible that they are able to keep going. One thing is abundantly clear to me: patients demand cannot be met solely on one hospital site, and this is why both Daisy Hill Hospital and Craigavon Area Hospital need fully resourced Type-1 Acute Emergency Departments.

“Patients and their families are experiencing frightening waiting times in Eds and in the back of ambulances sometimes for up to 10 or 12hrs. This week in the UK the news reported startling waiting times of 30mins in ambulances at some hospital EDs. It is very very concerning that far longer waiting times in the back of ambulances at Craigavon or Daisy Hill seems to be acceptable.

“The fact that we have no Executive at a time of such unprecedented crisis in our health service is absolutely scandalous. We need to see an immediate resumption of the institutions at Stormont so that our health service gets the funding and leadership necessary to meet the needs of the public, who work hard and pay their taxes and deserve better.

"A restored Executive is what our health service staff require, it is what patients deserve, and it is what the public demand.”