Health Minister Edwin Poots has said health care assistants have a significant role to play in the reform of Health and Social Care.

The majority of childcare social workers in Northern Ireland spend less than a third of their working week with young people, new research has indicated.

New NSPCC guidelines aimed at improving how child abuse cases are reported in Northern Ireland are due to be published on Thursday.

The husband of a woman prisoner who killed herself in jail after repeatedly threatening to commit suicide is to sue the prison authorities.

The prosecution in the Millie Martin trial has said that the toddler was the victim of “vile sadistic abuse” that culminated in her murder.

Dilapidated north Belfast hospice, Somerton House, is one step closer to redevelopment, following an apparent pledge of £2m from Health Minster, Edwin Poots.

THE Northern Health and Social Care Trust have refused to meet with Cookstown District Council over fears a town centre care home is to close.

The mother of a severely disabled man has warned he may do permanent damage to himself if an urgent review into his care is not carried out.

A NEW website has been launched to help young care leavers in Londonderry live independently.

Mental health is the most neglected area in the NHS, Northern Ireland’s most senior coroner has said. John Leckey made his comments during an inquest into the death of Brian Matthew Ferguson, who took his own life two years ago.