Government plans for 60 NHS jobs to be taken out of Londonderry have been branded “scandalous”.

Northern Ireland Audit Office says that it expected greater savings in management and administration costs after 2008 reforms

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) was engaged in a series of meetings with the failed care homes provider Southern Cross prior to the transfer of operations of the homes to other businesses.

A Northern Ireland health visitor put vulnerable children at risk of harm after failing to act to protect them from violent and alcoholic parents, it has emerged.

The Southern Health and Social Care Trust “failed in its duty of care” towards an allegedly sexually abused child, the NI Ombudsman claims.

Fostering People, a non-statutory foster care agency, has launched its services in Dublin to meet the needs of vulnerable children and young people living in the city.

Northern Ireland’s pensioners face a substantial bill to pay for a social care system that is broken and in need of urgent reform, according to a leading business consultancy.

A proposed Quality Strategy for NI’s health and social care sector has been launched.

Children across Northern Ireland are to benefit from a new service specialising in helping them come to terms with a trauma in their lives.

A total of 266 people die from alcohol abuse in Northern Ireland every year, according to the British Medical Association NI.