SDLP MLA Joe Byrne has welcomed the decision from the Health Minister Edwin Poots to reverse the proposals in closing of residential care homes.
The West
Tyrone MLA said: “I have been deeply concerned by the anxiety and distress that
elderly residents of Greenfield residential home have felt in regards to the
minister's poor management of the situation and his apparent disconnection with
the health trusts.
“The minister
needs to start asking fundamental questions about how the trusts were able to
take steps in implementing proposals, which were in direct conflict with the
departmental policy contained in the Transforming Your Care document. The SDLP
have had concerns in regards to this policy and will be calling on the minister
to bring forward legislation to prevent the stealth privatisation of the health
and social care system.
“Whilst I
welcome this belated decision by the minister to take steps in order restore
public confidence in his department. There are serious questions which still
need to be answered by the minister in regards to this policy and his
departments communication with the health trusts senior management."
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