UPDATED 28.06.2025.
LAST DAY! CLOSES TODAY! Sat 28th June 5pm. STILL TIME to Write For your Equality Rights & Help Daisy Hill Hospital:: Doh Draft Equality & Disability Public Consultation 2025
>The deadline is TODAY – so Please reply by closing date this Saturday 28th June 2025@5pm.
(Full Consultation Information is available from the Background / Links section at the end of the page.)
Click on the LINK below to go to the Webpage to make an Online Response to the Draft Equality & Disability Action Plans 2025-2030‘
https://consultations2.nidirect.gov.uk/doh-1/draft-equality-action-plan-and-di/
Scroll to ‘Give your Views’ > Online Consultation.
Note: As you work through the form, click Continue to go on to the next Question.
The Consultation Closes on Saturday 28th June at 5pm.
BACKGROUND / LINKS
The link below is the main Consultation link from the Department of Health website It gives all documents including main report, and all Appendices. Consultation Questionnaire Word document all available to download and read.
LINK ********DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ONLINE CONSULTATION LINK – CLICK BELOW
https://consultations2.nidirect.gov.uk/doh-1/draft-equality-action-plan-and-di/
WAYS TO RESPOND TO THE CONSULTATION
There are 3 WAYS TO RESPOND to Department of Health Draft Equality & Disability Action Plans Consultation 2025 – 2030
1>By Email > Send your completed Questionnaire by email to the Department by attaching the Consultation Questionnaire to the email address: equality&humanrights@health-ni.gov.uk
2>By Online Questionnaire
Click on the Online Questionnaire link below and scroll down to and click ‘have your say’
https://consultations2.nidirect.gov.uk/doh-1/draft-equality-action-plan-and-di/
3>By Post > A hard copy of your response Questionnaire can also be sent in Writing to:
Write to:
Equality and Human Rights Unit,
Castle Buildings,
Stormont,
Belfast,
Northern Ireland,
BT4 3SQ
By the Closing Date of Saturday 28th June 2025 by 5pm.
For Enquiries on the Department of Health Draft Equality & Disability Action Plans Consultation 2025 – 2030 the contact email is: equality&humanrights@health-ni.gov.uk
Department of Health General Telephone number is : Telephone: 028 9052 0500
WHY ANSWER THIS CONSULTATION?
Why? Newry, is the Gateway to NI on the TENS European Road, Rail, and Sea economic corridor where hundreds of thousands travel through (mainly by road) yearly. Yet, vital Regional Emergency Services including Emergency Surgery was withdrawn permanently from Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry (without Regional Public Consultation.)
Regional Emergency Surgery and Emergency medical inpatient beds needs to be provided, not removed from Daisy Hill acute hospital, Newry to make sure there is timely access to Emergency Services for all patients, (locals and visitors alike) including for potential road, work, and farm accidents.
There is Geographical inequality here, as access to timely life saving emergency treatment is denied to many large populations. This must be changed.
We must put our objection down in writing as part of this consultation to the singling out of Daisy Hill Hospital for downgrading of Regional Inpatient Hospital services which will remove time critical equitable access to some vital Regional Emergency Services (and specialist acute inpatient services always provided in Daisy Hill Hospital) that the population of Newry Mourne and Down have vital need for and have paid for.
Thank you. Please Share if you think this will help someone else take part in this very important Consultation for the future of Daisy Hill Hospital and its dedicated staff.
Further Reading
See also – Decline by Design – https://savedaisyhillhospital.com/2025/05/27/decline-by-design-general-surgery-inpatient-beds-systematically-cut-from-daisy-hill-acute-hospital-newry-from-2007-to-2023/
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