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Health service ‘facing unprecedented challenges and in need of radical overhaul’

The health service in Northern Ireland is facing “unprecedented challenges” and needs a “radical overhaul” to meet the needs of the population, MLAs have been told. The heads of the region’s health trusts delivered a stark briefing to Stormont’s new ...

22 Feb 2024 at 18:01

Northern Ireland

Health service ‘facing unprecedented challenges and in need of radical overhaul’

22 Feb 2024 at 16:39

Northern Ireland

Health budget needs to grow by £400m a year just to stand still, MLAs told

Stormont’s health budget needs to grow by more than £400 million each year just to maintain the current level of service, MLAs have been told. Brigitte Worth, finance director at the Department of Health, told her scrutiny committee that the ...

29 Feb 2024 at 16:55

Northern Ireland

Maternity hospital will not open until water system ‘poses no risk to babies’

Belfast’s new maternity hospital will not open until health chiefs are assured that the domestic water systems do not pose a risk to babies, MLAs have been told. The opening of the hospital is facing a significant delay after high levels of ...

26 Sept 2024 at 16:51

Northern Ireland

Belfast Health Trust struggling to get ‘antisemitic’ graffiti removed

The Belfast Health Trust has been struggling to find a contractor to remove “antisemitic” graffiti from the wall of its hospital. The phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” has been on a wall of the Royal Victoria ...

21 Nov 2024 at 17:20

Northern Ireland

Number of flu hospital admissions 3.6 times higher than last year – Nesbitt

The number of people admitted to hospital with flu in Northern Ireland this winter is 3.6 times higher than the previous year, Stormont’s Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said. Mr Nesbitt told the Health Committee that patients ...

07 Jan 2025 at 17:16

Northern Ireland

Health chiefs still do not know cause of maternity hospital bacteria outbreak

Health chiefs still do not know the cause of an outbreak of a potentially dangerous bacteria which has delayed the opening of Belfast’s new maternity hospital by years, MLAs have been told. Stormont’s Health Committee heard ...

10 Apr 2025 at 18:34

Northern Ireland

No assurance IT problems which hit patients will not reoccur, MLAs told

A health official has told MLAs he cannot give assurances that IT problems which affected patients across the Southern Health Trust area will not be repeated. Dr Paul Rice, chief digital information officer at the ...

25 Sept 2025 at 17:46

Northern Ireland

‘High levels of confidence in vaccines’ – chief medical officer

There are broad levels of confidence in vaccination in Northern Ireland, the region’s chief medical officer has said. An emphasis has been placed on vaccination programmes against diseases such as influenza, ...

16 Oct 2025 at 18:08

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