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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM) in partnership with the Social Care Institute For Excellence (SCIE) is inviting applications for the inaugural IHM – Social Work Manager of the Year
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26% of adults in Northern Ireland live with ‘multiple deprivation’, (lacking three or more basic necessities), and this figure increases among those who experienced violent events during the ‘Troubles’, according
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