NI Minister launches seven steps to cleanliness in care homes
As part of the drive to reduce infections across all health and social care environments, the Health Minister has extended a poster campaign for use in nursing care homes.
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As part of the drive to reduce infections across all health and social care environments, the Health Minister has extended a poster campaign for use in nursing care homes.
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The Ministry Team and church members from Maghera and Swatragh Church of Ireland parishes have condemned the decision to close the services of the accident and emergency department of the Mid Ulster Hospital.
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A WALK promoting the need for foster carers will take place in Carrick on Monday. It is being organised by staff from the Northern Trust Recruitment and Assessment Team as part of Foster Care Fortnight.
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A social worker sacked over unproven allegations that he was part of a paedophile ring has lost a legal challenge over police handling of his case.
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There has been a rise in the number of children considered at risk in NI. The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has published the ‘Children Order Statistical Trends for Northern Ireland 2003/04 to 2008/09’.
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THE Western Health and Social Care Trust (WHSCT) have denied that a mental health ward at Waterside Hospital is to close despite fears of staff and a leading union representative.
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A Londonderry office worker who stole more than £64,000 from adults with learning difficulties has been put on probation. The 35-year-old woman confessed to police after being suspended from her work at a Waterside care home.
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A health body has admitted liability in an action brought by the family of a Tyrone woman left brain damaged at birth in a Belfast hospital in 1985.
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CONCERNS are growing amongst domiciliary care workers in Londonderry that their jobs are being gradually wound out of existence.
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The number of children referred to social services in the South Eastern Trust has doubled since the death of Baby P in 2007 — and figures are expected to climb even higher this year.
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