Northern Ireland’s Chief Nursing Officer Charlotte McArdle is backing a new recruitment campaign to encourage trained nurses and midwives with two or more years’ experience to consider a career as
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The Public Health Agency (PHA) has today published the results of a survey of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and antimicrobial (antibiotic) use in long-term care facilities in Northern Ireland. The survey,
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The regulator for the social care workforce in Northern Ireland, the NISCC, has assured those living in residential care and their families that safeguards are in place to help protect
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A sex offender who killed himself in prison was not provided the level of support offered to other vulnerable inmates, a watchdog has found. Northern Ireland’s Prisoner Ombudsman Tom McGonigle
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The Health and Social Services Minister for Northern Ireland, Edwin Poots, has launched minimum care standards for children’s homes. The standards set out the minimum requirements that children’s homes must
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Four residential care homes that were under threat of closure have been given a lifeline by Health Minister Edwin Poots. The homes are Thackeray Place in Limavady, Westlands in Cookstown,
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The Northen Ireland Victims’ Commissioner is to leave her post for a new role in England – a decision she has described as the most difficult of her career. The
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A community healthcare provider has announced it has 300 jobs up for grabs on the day it unveiled a £2m investment plan and opened new offices in Belfast. Co Armagh
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Health Minister Edwin Poots has announced a programme of actions to promote quality and good governance across Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. Speaking in the NI Assembly,
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A boys’ home in Northern Ireland being examined for claims of abuse provided a “warm and caring” environment, the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has heard. The comments were made by
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