MP slams eight year wait for 'urgent' appointment
“My constituents are being utterly failed by the Northern Trust” - MP
NORTH Antrim MP Jim Allister has blasted an eight year nine months wait for an appointment with the Northern Trust as ‘woeful’.
And the TUV man said he would be raising it with top brass when he meets with the Chief Executive this week.
“My constituents are being utterly failed by the Northern Trust,” he said.
“Confirmation from the Trust, in a recent constituency case, that the wait time to be seen by a dermatologist on an ‘urgent referral’ is eight years nine months, leaves me angry as to the failure of the Northern Trust to provide such an essential dermatology service.
“Of course, I expect cases where cancer is suspected to be the top priority, but to classify a referral as ‘urgent’ and then decree a wait time of almost a decade amounts to catastrophic failure.
“When I meet the CEO of the Northern Trust next week I will be drilling into this woeful situation.”