Devolution offers Opportunity to Concentrate on Improving Health Services - Carson
Cllr Angus Carson, UUP Assembly candidate for Strangford has said his party will use the Assembly to build quality local health services for the people of Strangford and Northern Ireland.
Cllr Carson said:
“The National Health Service makes real impact on all our lives whether as individuals, families or communities. The investments we make in our health service must be designed to secure access to quality healthcare and advice and it must reach all of us.
“The Assembly can bring local accountability, strategic direction and targeted investment to the health service which will stand in contrast to the unaccountable mismanagement of Direct Rule.
“The Ulster Unionist Party is committed to early intervention, local healthcare and advice and above all health services that are free at the point of need.
“In the course of the next Assembly the UUP is committed to seeing the introduction of free prescriptions for all, free eye tests, an investment package for dentistry, allowing pharmacists to prescribe for non-urgent conditions and developing the health service so that patients can have access to NHS staff and medical advice 24 hours a day.
“Only the Ulster Unionist Party is presenting a programme designed to bring the National Health Service back to its founding principles of providing first class, free health treatment for all and if elected will spend the next four years striving to achieve this.”