Northern Ireland Minister Fleur Anderson was appearing before the NI Affairs Select Committee
Northern Ireland Minister Fleur Anderson has talked up the possibility of All-Ireland cooperation to tackle health waiting lists in Northern Ireland.
Addressing MPs, minister Anderson said that any decisions should be about "improving outcomes for people". "So there are those examples of all Ireland health strategies should actually absolutely be built on. We recently had the British and Irish Intergovernmental Conference when the Secretary of State and I met in Dublin, and we talked about public service transformation in that conference deliberately to bring this to the forefront.I think, yeah, wherever we can have that is absolutely beneficial to all.
"I was in Fermanagh talking about this as well for them geographically to look at health, where healthcare provision should be, when it should be a specialised subject service further away, when it should be those provisions that are needed nearer.Rather than having to drive long distances, they should all be on the table," she said.
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