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Feb 25, 2024
Ballymena GP practices merge to provide ‘safe, stable and sustainable’ care for patients
Ballymena Health and Care Centre Three local GP practices based in the Ballymena Health and Care Centre, on the Cushendall Road in the...


Feb 20, 2024
Swann calls for sustainable funding and ‘whole system approach’ to tackle health waiting lists
Health Minister Robin Swann Health Minister Robin Swann has emphasised that hospital waiting lists cannot be tackled in isolation from...


Feb 15, 2024
Increase in funded IVF provision announced for Northern Ireland
Health Minster Robin Swann with Dr Ishola Agbaje, Consultant Gynaecologist. Health Minister Robin Swann has announced that publicly...


Feb 14, 2024
Department of Health urges parents to avail of MMR vaccine after alarming surge in measles cases
Professor Lourda Geoghegan, Deputy Chief Medical Officer. The Department of Health has advised that it’s likely there will be new cases...


Feb 14, 2024
Givan committed to resolving teachers' pay dispute
Education Minister and DE officials meeting with representatives from the teaching unions (from l to r) – Mark McTaggart INTO, Justin...


Feb 13, 2024
Health Minister Robin Swann outlines Women’s Health Action Plan
A Women’s Health Action Plan is being developed by the Department of Health, Minister Robin Swann has said. This will pave the way for a...


Feb 10, 2024
Conference marks 10 years of Northern Ireland’s Sexual Assault Referral Centre
Pictured above are Maura Dargan, Northern Trust Children and Young People Division Director, Alison Howard, Lead Nurse at The Rowan,...


Feb 10, 2024
NHSCT has warned of a potential merging of Antrim & Causeway Hospital Emergency Surgery Departments
The Northern Health and Social Care Trust (NHSCT) has warned of the potential merging of the “unsustainable” elective and emergency...


Feb 10, 2024
Northern Trust urges public to follow smoke free rules across its sites
The Northern Trust is appealing to members of the public to comply with its smoke free policy at its hospital sites. Hospitals across...


Feb 10, 2024
Health Minister reinstates funding but NI Hospice facing deeper financial pressures
Pictured: Health Minister Robin Swann MLA, and an aerial view of the Northern Ireland Children's Hospice (Newtownabbey, County Antrim)....


Feb 4, 2024
Health Minister prioritises pay talks
New Health Minister Robin Swann has spoken of his honour at returning to the post. The Minister emphasised his intention to secure pay...


Jan 30, 2024
Swann and Chambers welcome report on tackling the public health impacts of smoking and vaping
Robin Swann MLA with party colleague Alan Chambers MLA Former Health Minister, Robin Swann MLA, and health spokesperson Alan Chambers MLA...


Jan 28, 2024
Change ahead as board considers future of general surgery across Northern Trust
The chief executive of the Northern Health and Social Care Trust has said any proposed options for general surgery at Antrim and Causeway...


Jan 26, 2024
Trust considers 'vision for Causeway Hospital' but concerns continue over the future of services at site
Causeway Hospital, Coleraine “Causeway Hospital will remain an important part of the Trust’s acute hospital network,” the chief executive...


Jan 19, 2024
Department of Health invites public to obesity consultation events
The Department of Health is inviting the public to take part in a series of events arranged as part of two public consultations on...


Jan 16, 2024
People urged to keep themselves safe as public workers set to strike
Departments have reiterated the call for people to keep themselves safe on Thursday (18th January) with snow and ice forecast and...


Jan 12, 2024
Effective political leadership could have avoided upcoming industrial action - Swann
Ulster Unionist MLA Robin Swann has spoken of his ‘huge concern’ about the potential impact of major industrial action, planned for...


Jan 11, 2024
DoH “extremely concerned” over disruption on “scale not experienced” ahead of health workers walkout
The Department of Health is extremely concerned about the potential impact of planned industrial action on Thursday 18 January. In a...


Jan 5, 2024
NI could lose out on prostate cancer wonder drug
Minister of State Steve Baker MP Prostate cancer patients in Northern Ireland are likely to be the only UK region to miss out on a...


Dec 31, 2023
Dept of Health survey highlights mental health and wellbeing of young people in NI
The Department of Health recently published the “Young Persons Behaviour and Attitudes Survey 2022: Mental Health and Wellbeing”...
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