Stormont to host Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series
A series of free seminars covering topics relevant to social work and social care will be taking place at Stormont over the next few months. ‘Promoting evidence-led policy and law-making
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Larne nursing home wins ‘Best Kept’ award
Health Minister Edwin Poots has congratulated Gillaroo Lodge Nursing Home in Larne, on winning the Best Kept Health and Social Care Facility Awards. Presenting the awards, the Health Minister said:
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NI Health Minister welcomes £6M dementia funding
Health Minister Edwin Poots has welcomed a funding boost for Dementia services in Northern Ireland. The Minister acknowledged the funding from the Executive’s Delivering Social Change programme as he launched
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NI mental health patients ‘to get refusal right’
Northern Ireland is expected to become the first place in the world to give everybody with or without mental health problems equal rights to refuse treatment, an expert said. The
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Highlights from NI Practice Teaching Symposium
The Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC) have published details of their 2014 Practice Teaching Symposium which was attended by Practice Teachers, On-site Supervisors, Tutors and Service Users with an
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Latest Northern Ireland care workforce census published
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) has released details of the Northern Ireland Health and Social Care (HSC) Workforce at 31 March 2014. This statistical publication
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Portadown to host NI domiciliary care provider event
The Health and Social Care Board is currently undertaking a review of domiciliary care across Northern Ireland and wishes to engage with interested parties to inform this work. Domiciliary
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Details announced for Belfast care conference
The Northern Irish Social Care Council (NISCC) have released details of a major conference on Transforming Your Care taking place in November. The conference – Transforming Your Care and the
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Historical abuse inquiry witness ‘reliving nightmare’
A woman abused while resident at a children’s home in Northern Ireland was left suicidal after telling her story before a public inquiry. Kate Walmsley, 58, was in an institution
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Banbridge groups meet on recent NI drug deaths
Approximately nine people a month are losing their lives due to drug-related incidents throughout Northern Ireland. That was the stark message given by Health Minister Edwin Poots as he met
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