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Nurses and health service workers continue their strike

Nurses from across Derry have gone to the picket line today, in the second day of industrial action this week. They are demanding pay parity with England, Scotland and Wales and safer staffing levels. SDLP MLA Mark Durkan joined the picket line at ...

10 Jan 2020 at 16:10

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Attacks on healthcare staff 'utterly abhorrent' - Breslin

...the care of others above all else. The negative and lasting impact this has on an already stressful job is leaving our NHS staff at breaking point. Our health staff are already under immense pressures- expected to meet increased demands on...

07 Mar 2019 at 14:07

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Western Trust urged: ‘Just say no’ to £12.5m cutbacks

...its own it won’t do the trick. “It’s not true there’s no money. The estimated cost of the Trident missile would cover the NHS shortfall in a twinkling. Or we could get the money by making the rich pay their fair share. “I agree with the general...

29 Aug 2017 at 19:30

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Family of Billy Caldwell holding 'Billy's Bud Fest' to celebrate the support they have received

...hearts. "Billy made history earlier this year when he became the first person to be prescribed medical cannabis on the NHS. "Billy suffers from the life threatening condition known as intractable epilepsy. Following extensive treatment with CBD...

30 Aug 2017 at 11:52

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Protest against further health service cuts being held before Western Trust public meeting in Derry - 'It will break our health service'

...public sector in order to faciliate privatisation so a tiny few can profit. The destruction of public services like the NHS will have disastrous consequences for working class people from all backgrounds across the North. "The bottom line is that...

05 Sept 2017 at 10:05

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Derry's Apprentice girl does the business with launch of new cosmetic surgery clinic

...‘fantastic birthday present’. "The last six months have been absolutely hectic. I continued to work full-time for the NHS until August, and then I took up a full-time position with Lord Sugar so it became quite difficult to balance both," she...

22 Jan 2014 at 10:35

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Up to 60 jobs at risk at private hospital in County Derry

...workforce of 180 could be involved. A spokesperson for the hospital blamed the proposed redundancies on the ‘cessation of NHS referrals to the hospital under the Waiting List Initiative’. See today's County Derry Post for more on this story.

16 Sept 2014 at 08:53

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Durkan delight at deal on Meningitis B vaccine

...struck which will see a life-saving vaccine against the deadly Meningitis B disease (Bexsero) available for free on the NHS for babies in Derry and across the North. Mr Durkan, who tabled parliamentary motions and campaigned at Westminster with...

29 Mar 2015 at 15:12

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VIDEO: Billy Caldwell's mum Charlotte appears on This Morning to talk about how her son was the first child in the UK to be prescribed cannabis for his epilepsy

...tears. History has being made today. "Billy is the first child in Ireland and UK to be prescribed medicinal cannabis via NHS prescription! "A huge heartfelt thank you to Greenlight Medicine and our wee Warriors Doctor. Truly indebted to you both....

28 Apr 2017 at 15:14

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Derry stroke survivor celebrates recovery with gruelling cycle challenge to raise money for other stroke victims

...but I worked at 100 miles an hour and rarely said no to anything. I had a busy career, working at the University, for the NHS and in private practice. We had our three young children and were moving house. It was hectic. Looking back I realised...

21 Apr 2017 at 13:53

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People Before Profit hosting event focused on 'how we can win abortion rights on both sides of the border' in Derry this week

...on request to 12 weeks and for a range of reasons after that. "The same day saw the Tory/DUP government agree to fund NHS abortions in England for women from the North rather than risk defeat in a vote for a Labour Party amendment. "This is a...

03 Jul 2017 at 09:47

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Mark Durkan: Health service staff being 'suffocated with frustration' over 'inadequate' pay

...vital contribution nurses, midwives and associated healthcare professionals in Derry and throughout the North make to the NHS at Westminster this week – and has called on the British government to take urgent action to remove the one per cent pay...

02 Feb 2017 at 12:00

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