Help for your response to: Dept of Health Equality Impact Assessment of 2023-24 Budget Consultation available here
Downloadable Information Sheets with pre-written Response ideas to help answer this Budget Consultation are NOW AVAILABLE – to respond to the Dept of Health’s request for comments to their Equality Assessment of the 2023-24 Budget Outcome
The Department of Health cannot commit one penny of funding towards Health and Social care in Newry & Mourne or at Daisy Hill Hospital unless the Southern Trust asks for it by putting it into their Business Plans and submitting to the Department of Health.
As the Southern Trust have NOT asked or proposed any proper funding for Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry in this Budget – We the people need to speak up and ask instead through this Public Consultation
The 2023-24 Budget EQIA Consultation Deadline is Mon 14th August, so the campaign for fair treatment for Daisy Hill acute Hospital continues, with a renewed call for action for the people of Newry & Mourne, (which includes South Armagh and South Down) and surrounding areas. Please take part and write for your rights.
Based on demographics and other factors, Newry should be confirmed as a location for a new specialised Acute Hospital building so these Response/Comment Sheets to the Equality Assessment of the 2023-24 Budget Outcome are now ready to Download and read for sending responses back to the Department of Health.
To assist you – various information sources including some very good Budget Consultation Responses from the Equality Commission NI and from NI Commissioner for Children and Young People (NICCY) are available from the references section below at the bottom of the article.
What difference will it make if I take part in this Consultation?
Will it make any difference if I take part in this consultation?
Yes, because if you read the quote below from the Consultation Document from the Department of Health it states:
Consultation responses will also be considered in targeting any additional funding that may become available during the financial year.
So if you do not ask – you will not get – but if you ask and make a good deserving case for – we could get the additional funding that Newry & Mourne LGD has needed for a long time for its large population and for its acute Hospital – at Daisy Hill, Newry. As you know, Newry & Mourne has always been the highest LGD population, with the largest population of children in the Southern Trust area. This must be recognised in this Budget.
Quote below from the Department of Health Budget 2023-24 Equality Impact Assessment Document, p31 (p33 pdf page number) shows that the Department is actively seeking for all citizens to comment on these funding proposals. If we have Equality concerns – we must tell them so they can act on them.
“The Department will seek comments on any potential equality implications arising from the budget and will consider the potential for any further mitigating actions in relation to responses received during the consultation. Consultation responses will also be considered in targeting any additional funding that may become available during the financial year.“
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Thank you! Let us keep up the long running campaign to speak up for Daisy Hill Hospital, the acute Hospital for Newry & Mourne (which includes South Armagh)
Detailed info on the importance of this Consultation is described on Daisy Hill for life website at :
The Department of Health explain the Consultation as follows on their website:
“The Equality Impact Assessment of the 2023-24 Budget Outcome Consultation opened on 22 May 2023. Closing date 14 August 2023 at 23:59. Summary The 2023-24 Budget was announced by the NI Secretary of State on the 27 April 2023. The Budget provides the proposed Resource and Capital investment funding allocations to departments for the 2023-24 financial year. The Department of Health’s Equality Impact Assessment document provides an Equality Impact Assessment of the 2023-24 Budget Outcome for the Department, and we are seeking your comments on the equality implications.“
Registrar General NI Link (which confirms although the 11 council model is in place since April 2015, Health Trusts remain under the former 26 council model). See below
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