One in four residents of private nursing homes in the Northern Trust area carry MRSA, a study has found. The study, conducted by Queen’s University and Antrim Area hospital, surveyed 1,111 residents and 553 staff in 45 homes in the Northern Trust area.

How can care for people with epilepsy be improved? That is the question nursing experts from the University of Ulster will be asking as part of a new project.

Local government and primary care trusts are being urged to be more ‘joined up’ in the commissioning of social care services for people with cancer.

Disturbing details of children being seriously injured and even killed through abuse in Northern Ireland are exposed by the Belfast Telegraph today.

Support group CARI has expressed its concerned that today’s publication of the Child Abuse Commission may lead the public into a false sense of security that such abuses are a thing of the past.

BBC NI’s Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison speaks to three people abused at institutions run by the Catholic Church in the Republic of Ireland.

A Northern Ireland woman who was sexually abused by a priest when she was just six years old has described the Ryan report as “too little, too late”.

Children’s groups say the entire child protection system needs to be overhauled in light of the Dunne family tragedy in Monageer.

Less than a year after nursing staff across the UK voiced fears about welfare because there was not enough staff to help patients feed themselves, it has emerged that almost two thirds of nurses in Northern Ireland have raised concerns about patient safety with their employers. New research published today has also indicated that in one of three of such cases, no subsequent action was taken by the hospitals’ management.

SOCIAL Development Minister Margaret Ritchie has promised there will be no job losses in Londonderry as part of a planned modernisation of the Social Security Agency.