Expanding Northern Ireland nursing and domiciliary agency Lucas Love Healthcare are pursuing an ambitious recruitment initiative, hoping to fill 30 vacancies in 30 days over the month of September.

A residential home in Londonderry at the centre of abuse allegations was below minimum standard for staff training, according to an inspection last year.

Health Minister Edwin Poots has urged workers with any knowledge about alleged abuse of vulnerable adults at a Londonderry care home to come forward.

A care home in County Londonderry is to close with the loss of 41 jobs after its new owners decided the building does not meet required standards.

Health chiefs are to press ahead with a new ‘out of hours’ system for social workers — despite the objections of professionals.

A support service which works with 150 families across west Belfast has vowed to fight funding cuts which will see it close in October.

Old people just grow lonesome / Waiting for someone to say, ‘Hello in there, hello.'” So wrote the poet and singer John Prine. He might have had the levels of homecare provision in mind.

People who grew up in the worst years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland are more prone to suicide, according to research at Queen’s University Belfast.

The authorities in Northern Ireland are failing young people who are at risk of getting involved in crime, a report has found.

NEW research launched by the Resurgam Partnership (made up of the PHA, Resurgam Community Development Trust and Lisburn City Council) on the 20th of June found that 75% of those attending three post-primary schools in Lisburn leave school without five or more GCSEs, which include English and Maths, and very few go onto university or college.