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Doctors considering leaving NI or retiring early due to pay – BMA

An increasing number of doctors in Northern Ireland are considering moving away or retiring early due to their frustrations over pay, a prominent GP has said. Dr Tom Black also said the health service was now “running on goodwill” as a survey ...

31 Aug 2022 at 01:01

Northern Ireland

Largest nursing union in Northern Ireland joins day of industrial action

Northern Ireland’s largest nursing union has announced strike action on January 18, joining other unions in a day of action. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will join other trade unions in industrial action in response to the ...

05 Jan 2024 at 18:52

Northern Ireland

NHS will do all it can to ‘minimise harm’ during nursing strike, says leader

NHS hospitals will do all they can to “minimise harm to patients” if nurses go on strike, a national health leader has said, adding that industrial action is about more than pay. Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, ...

10 Nov 2022 at 12:30

Northern Ireland

Strikes: Nurses’ union leader urges Government to ‘do the decent thing’

The head of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has urged the Prime Minister to do the “decent thing” as thousands of nurses stage their second walkout over pay. Speaking on the picket line at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, ...

20 Dec 2022 at 09:13

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Altnagelvin’s Critical Care patients offered novel lipreading app in new study

Derry's Altnagelvin Hospital has become the first hospital in the North to offer critical care patients, their families and staff, the opportunity to test out a new lipreading app. The recently launched research study, led by Queen’s ...

17 May 2023 at 10:00

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 place before the ...

09 Nov 2022 at 18:07

Government stands firm over pay deal for nurses

Northern Ireland

Biggest strike in history of nursing taking place across the NHS

Downing Street has said there are “no plans” to look again at the pay deal for nurses who are staging their biggest ever strike in the history of the NHS. Number 10 and Health Secretary Steve Barclay stood firm on the issue of pay ...

15 Dec 2022 at 20:10

Northern Ireland

Former chief nursing officer shares ‘regret’ over Covid visiting restrictions

Decisions to restrict hospital visits during the pandemic in Northern Ireland were taken as “the least worst option”, the former chief nursing officer (CNO) for the region has said. Professor Charlotte McArdle also said vacancy ...

18 Sept 2024 at 17:23

Derry News

“To hear that GPs are under performing, in my eyes, is nonsense.”

Anthony Murray, who was sadly recently diagnosed with bowel cancer, has said he has nothing but praise for his treatment from the NHS. The 56-year-old was urged by loved ones to go get checked and the results confirmed the ...

08 Nov 2021 at 13:46

Northern Ireland

Nurses expected to take industrial action before end of year

NHS operations and appointments are set to be cancelled after a historic vote by nurses to strike over pay. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said its members in the majority of NHS employers across the UK had backed ...

09 Nov 2022 at 21:45

Northern Ireland

Unison health workers to be balloted on industrial action

Health workers from the Unison union in Northern Ireland are to be balloted on industrial action. The union said the ballot has been prompted following a recommendation from a pay review body, which it said is ...

27 Oct 2022 at 01:01

Derry News

ARC Fitness founder short-listed for Nurse of the Year 2022

Founder of ARC Fitness, Gary Rutherford, has been nominated and subsequently short-listed for Nurse of the Year at the RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year Awards 2022. The RCN Nursing Awards celebrate the ...

23 Mar 2022 at 18:04

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