Northern Ireland’s Health Minister Robin Swann has stressed the importance of the seasonal influenza vaccination programme for all frontline health and social care workers. Visiting Holywood Arches Wellbeing and Treatment
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Stormont’s Executive Office has been urged to act over a closed fund for recognition payments for the bereaved. Kenny Donaldson of the victims group Seff has questioned the delay in
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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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Same-sex couples in Northern Ireland can apply to have a religious wedding ceremony following a change in the law. From Tuesday, couples will be able to register to marry in
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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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Northern Ireland’s health minister has expressed alarm at the increasing number of Covid-19 cases. Robin Swann said there had been 194 positive tests in the last seven days. No further
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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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Ten people have been arrested by detectives investigating allegations of historical sex abuse in Co Fermanagh. The 10 suspects, aged between 63 and 78, were arrested in the Fermanagh, Belfast
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