Health Minister Robin Swann has announced that he is calling a statutory public inquiry into the abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital. The inquiry follows two reports into the abuse at
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An independent probe has been ordered into Covid-19 outbreaks at a Northern Ireland hospital after the death of a fourth patient. Three wards at Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh
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Stormont health minister Robin Swann has announced a plan for a second Nightingale facility in Northern Ireland as part of a surge plan ahead what he warned could be a
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An initiative to stop the use of the continued prescribing of potentially harmful medicines to older patients will be trialled across hospitals in England. Half of older people admitted to
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From a couple working on a ward side by side, to a doctor reading out family text messages to a dying Covid-19 patient, key workers have been sharing their stories
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Official inspections of health and care organisations should not resume until after winter, the NHS Confederation has said. Routine inspections were paused during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic to
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Five patients on a cancer ward in Northern Ireland have tested positive for Covid-19. It is the second cluster of infections at Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh. A member
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“Urgent changes” are needed at the troubled Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospitals Trust (SaTH) after health inspectors highlighted “failing leadership” and normalisation of “poor patient care”. The Care Quality Commission
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NHS trusts across England will receive £300 million to upgrade facilities ahead of the winter amid fears of a second wave of coronavirus, Boris Johnson has announced. The Prime Minister
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The head of the Belfast Health Trust has expressed “profound regret” at failings in the leadership at Muckamore Abbey Hospital. A raft of allegations of physical abuse and mental cruelty
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