NI Health Expenditure Up By 7.7%
Inflation, new terms and conditions for staff, developments in the service, and general population growth have all been blamed for an increase in Government spending on Northern Ireland’s health service.
Read MoreInflation, new terms and conditions for staff, developments in the service, and general population growth have all been blamed for an increase in Government spending on Northern Ireland’s health service.
Read MoreThe Health Service Executive has told schools in Naas, Co Kildare, that it is closing its waiting list for child and adolescent psychiatric services. It says this is because the list is now running at a two-year wait.
Read MoreThe High Court has been told that the fetus being carried by a 17-year-old girl who wants an abortion in the UK has the same right to life as any other unborn child, even though it will not survive long after being born.
Read MoreNurses are set to escalate their campaign of industrial action today with two-hour work stoppages at 12 hospitals and mental health facilities across the country. Six facilities will be hit between 10am and midday and another six between 2pm and 4pm in the afternoon.
Read MoreIt would be inhumane to force a pregnant teenager to carry her baby for nine months knowing it would die, Ireland’s High Court has heard. The 17-year-old girl, known only as Miss D and from Leinster, is asking judges to allow her to travel to Britain for an abortion after health chiefs told her she could not go.
Read MoreNurses embark on their escalated industrial action this morning. 23 general hospitals and psychiatric services across the country will be hit by hour-long work-stoppages today between 11 am and 12 am.
Read MoreDementia in Northern Ireland will rise by more than 25% in the next 10 years, according to research. The research, commissioned by the Alzheimer’s Society, suggests more than 20,500 people in Northern Ireland will be living with dementia by 2017. The illness currently affects 16,000 people in Northern Ireland.
Read MoreThe state has no power to stop a teenage girl travelling to Britain for an abortion, the Irish High Court was told yesterday. The 17-year-old, who is four months pregnant, is challenging the Health Service Executive (HSE) which is preventing her from terminating her pregnancy overseas
Read MoreAuthorities at the Craigavon Area Hospital should carry out a full inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was hanging from a tree for over three weeks, it was urged last night.
Read MoreThe biggest Catholic Archdiocese in Ireland has revealed how many priests are suspected of abusing children. In the archdiocese of Dublin, 145 men have been identified in an investigation dating back to 1940.
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