Health Minister Edwin Poots and Justice Minister David Ford have welcomed Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall to the opening of Northern Ireland’s first Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC).

Northern Ireland’s doctors and nurses will have more time to spend treating patients and will have access to all the important health and care information they need after the introduction

The opening of the new £14.2m emergency department at Antrim Area Hospital should be a time of great optimism and celebration. But instead there is an air of nervous tension

Health Minister Edwin Poots has officially launched a pilot initiative aimed at tackling drug misuse in East Belfast. ‘RAPID’ (Remove all Prescription and Illegal Drugs) is a community safety initiative

Public health research in Northern Ireland has been given funding of £9m. The Centre of Excellence for Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast will use the money to research ageing,

A £2m research programme into the care of people with dementia in Northern Ireland is being launched later. It is being jointly funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies and the Public

Health Minister Edwin Poots and Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland today jointly opened Cedar Court sheltered housing development in Downpatrick. Cedar Court caters for frail older people and older people

THE credit crunch and revelations about paedophile Jimmy Savile have cause a spike in the numbers using a local counselling charity. Care in Crisis has had to deal with a

The Presbyterian Church’s board of social witness is to meet Health Minister Edwin Poots to discuss pressing church concerns over the care of elderly people in the community. Lindsay Conway,

A number of staff have been suspended from a Limavady care home while the police investigate an allegation of abuse of vulnerable adults. Four Seasons Healthcare – which owns Rush