It has cost Northern Ireland’s Department of Health £116m to settle legal claims for clinical and social care negligence over the past five years.

Amnesty International today welcomed the news that the Department of Justice is to establish a new engagement group on human trafficking. The group will bring together the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Health & Social Care agencies and NGOs to work collaboratively to tackle human trafficking in Northern Ireland.
 

Six people have been arrested over alleged mistreatment and neglect of residents in a care home.

People living on the north coast could have to make a three-hour round trip for hospital treatment under a radical overhaul of the health service in Northern Ireland.

At least half of state-run residential care homes in Northern Ireland are to close under a proposed £70 million overhaul of the health service.

Training begins today for members of the 220-strong team who will operate the pioneering new £50m cross-border radiotherapy unit in Londonderry.

The Hyponatraemia Inquiry has been hit by a further delay as it makes an attempt to access more confidential patient files.

Northern Ireland is expected to lose a number of its residential homes as part of major changes to the health service. Edwin Poots Health Minister Edwin Poots is to address Stormont on changes to health services

Health Minister Edwin Poots has revealed an “innovative” new programme intended to improve people’s experience of care towards the end of their life.

Making a real difference to the lives of people with a learning disability, their carers and their families is the focus of the new Learning Disability Service Framework.