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Covid testing to end for health staff and visitors with no symptoms

Covid-19 testing for most symptomless staff and visitors in health settings will end in Northern Ireland from Monday. The move comes as the region’s chief medical officer said the number of Covid cases is likely to rise again this winter. Advice to ...

30 Sept 2022 at 13:11

Northern Ireland

Ambulance handover target missed hundreds of times

A new target which set a maximum limit of three hours for patients to be handed over from ambulances to emergency departments in Northern Ireland’s hospitals has been missed on hundreds of occasions. Health chiefs set the target in December as ...

10 Jan 2023 at 18:36

Northern Ireland

Hundreds of hospital appointments postponed as nurses take part in strike

Hundreds of appointments and procedures at hospitals across Northern Ireland were postponed or cancelled as nurses took part in strike action. On the picket lines in Belfast nurses spoke of an effective pay cut over the last decade and their ...

15 Dec 2022 at 20:04

Northern Ireland

Nurses across Northern Ireland strike over pay and safe staffing levels

Nurses across Northern Ireland have taken to the picket lines over pay and safe staffing levels. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) strike is the second in three years in the region, and the first involving nursing staff from England and ...

15 Dec 2022 at 10:20

Northern Ireland

Health funding shortfall leaves department ‘unable to resolve pay dispute’

Stormont’s Department of Health is facing a funding shortfall of £470 million that will leave it unable it resolve the current pay dispute with healthcare workers. A briefing given to political parties by the department said a budget ...

03 May 2023 at 14:33

Local News

Major £1.2m renewable energy project underway at Causeway Hospital

A £1.2m solar roof installation is underway at Causeway Hospital which, once complete, will offset more than 200,000 kgs of carbon emissions by generating around 1 million kWh of electricity each year. The project is the largest ...

23 Jan 2024 at 16:30

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Altnagelvin radiographers to strike again in January

188,850 patients in the North - almost 10 per cent of the population - are currently waiting for a diagnostic test. According to the Society of Radiographers (SoR), this situation has been caused because too few radiographers ...

14 Dec 2023 at 10:30

Northern Ireland

Daithi Mac Gabhann cuts cake on 75th anniversary of health service

A six-year-old who inspired a change in the organ donation laws in Northern Ireland has cut cake for healthcare workers at Stormont celebrating the 75th anniversary of the health service. The father of Daithi Mac Gabhann has ...

05 Jul 2023 at 17:57

Northern Ireland

Three sets of twins delivered as hospital celebrates NHS anniversary

Three sets of twins were born at the Ulster Hospital on the outskirts of Belfast as the health service marked 75 years. Events took place across the UK on Wednesday to celebrate the anniversary of the National Health ...

05 Jul 2023 at 18:39

Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland nurse vote to strike over pay and patient safety concerns

Nurses in Northern Ireland have voted to take part in strike action over pay levels and patient safety concerns. They are set to join colleagues across the UK in taking action, with the first strike expected to take ...

09 Nov 2022 at 18:07

Local News

Less than half of cancer referral cases seen by Trust inside 14-day target

Less than 50 per cent of urgent breast cancer referrals in the Northern Trust have been seen by a specialist within the government's 14-day target from April to June of this year. A 2020/21 Ministerial target, set ...

30 Sept 2020 at 08:30

Local News

"If I don’t do it, where are these kids going to go?"

Briege O’Kane and her husband Kieran, from Park village in County Derry, have been welcoming kids in need into their home since 2015. “I started fostering when my youngest was five at the time and he had started ...

23 Apr 2024 at 17:30

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