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Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has welcomed the BMA NI Consultant Committee’s decision to recommend the Department’s proposed 2024/25 pay offer for consultants to its membership

BMA consultants in Northern Ireland invited to accept 5.26% pay uplift

Consultants in Northern Ireland have called off plans to take strike action. Photo: PA

​Consultants in Northern Ireland call off plans to strike

Junior doctors pictured on strike outside Stormont in east Belfast on Thursday

Thousands of cancelled appointments as doctors' strike action kicks in

Consultant Dr Geffrey Todd says junior doctors on strike this week are putting the lives of patients at risk.

Striking doctors putting patient lives at risk, says respiratory consultant

Junior doctors on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in west Belfast during a 48 hour strike in Northern Ireland over pay and staff retention. Picture date: Wednesday May 22, 2024. Photo: Rebecca Black/PA Wire

Doctors strike: Swann 'can't restore 2008 pay' to everyone

Junior doctors on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast during a 48 hour strike in Northern Ireland over pay and staff retention

Striking junior doctors apologise but say they were left with no other option

Junior doctors at a picket line at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast back in March when they staged a 24-hour strike over pay. A fresh 48-hour walkout starts at 7am next Wednesday, with a second 48-hour strike scheduled for June 6-8. Photo by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Junior doctors’ strike set to cause widespread disruption, department warns

Further strikes by junior doctors in Northern Ireland will have a very significant impact on health service delivery, Robin Swann has warned. Phot0: PA

Junior doctors’ strikes will ‘significantly impact’ services, says Swann

Junior doctors form a picket line at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast as they take part in a one-day strike over pay. Photo by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

'Simply not viable': Economist rubbishes striking doctors' pay claim

Junior doctors across Northern Ireland are to take part in their first ever industrial action over pay.

Junior doctors in Northern Ireland on 24-hour strike action over pay

Health minister Robin Swann said that disruption caused by a by junior doctors' strike will be 'significant'

Junior doctors’ strike ‘will lead to thousands of missed appointments’

A doctor checking a patient's blood pressure. Photo: PA/Wire

Junior doctors in Northern Ireland vote to take strike action

“Let me be absolutely clear, the crisis is not the fault of the hard working, committed GPs and it is not the fault of our LMC or other GP representatives,” Dr Stout said.

Health: General practice ‘in the most difficult position it has ever been in’

A doctor examines a patient; The decision by the Stormont Department of Health to cut GP funding by almost 7% in real terms is "astonishing", the BMA has said.

Departmental cut of 7% in GP funding ‘astonishing’ says BMA

Dr Alan Stout will address a BMA meeting in Liverpool on Tuesday

Top doctor Alan Stout: We need Stormont back as soon as possible

Emergency departments and cancer care services will be negatively impacted by the latest budget, the BMA has said. Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Expect even longer hospital waiting lists after 'piecemeal' budget: BMA

​Hospital waiting lists in Northern Ireland will get even longer following a “piecemeal approach” to health funding in the budget, BMA warns.

Mark Rainey

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

A general view of the Accident and Emergency department at Craigavon Area Hospital. Picture date: Tuesday November 15, 2022.

Patients dying due to NI hospital crisis, warns top doctor

File photo dated 27/01/21 of nurses working. Issue date: Thursday May 12, 2022.

NI health service in ‘worse state than ever’ ahead of nurses’ strike this winter

Handout photo issued by Press Eye of Health Minister Robin Swann during a press conference in Parliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast.

Under pressure GP practices to get £5.5 million package

Members of health trade unions take part in a protest outside the RVH in Belfast, to demand a pay increase to help protect workers from the cost-of-living crisis.

Protests an ‘initial warning’ of possible strike action

Members of the Royal College of Nursing take part in a protest outside the Mater Hospital in Belfast, to demand a pay increase to help protect workers from the cost-of-living crisis. Picture date: Wednesday August 24, 2022.

NI health workers may return to picket line in dispute over pay, unions claim

Dr Tom Black of the BMA says hospital admission rates must be carefully monitored.

BMA: Rising Covid-inpatients must be monitored

Dr Alan Stout

My Healt: Dr Alan Stout

Dr Tom Black said easing restrictions too quickly could spark an increase in infections

Covid-19: BMA chief Dr Tom Black urges cautious return to normality

Dr Alan Stout, a GP and BMA leader in NI.

Leading GP urges ‘do NOT’ ask doctors for mask exemption letter

Dr Tom Black said NI hospitals are likely to come under most severe pressure at the end of January

'Double whammy' for NI health service at 'significant risk', warns top doctor

The health service in Northern Ireland is at “significant risk” of becoming overwhelmed by a “double whammy” of increased patient numbers and staff absences, a leading doctor has said.

Niall Deeney

Both the BMA and RCN warned that making Covid jabs compulsory for NHS staff in NI could cause a serious loss of workers during winter pressures. Photo: Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press

BMA: Sensible for all NHS staff in NI to take Covid-19 jabs

BMA NI chair Dr Tom Black spoke of ‘Covid fatigue’ at media coverage of pressure on the health service

We are sleepwalking into Covid crisis due to media fatigue: BMA

A leading GP has said he is ‘frightened’ by the number of patients being ‘put off’ going to emergency departments

Senior GP 'frightened' by number of 'horror stories' as patients avoid A&Es

The wearing of face masks is compulsory in all government-owned buildings except for a medical exemption

Appeal from BMA chiefs as more people ignoring face mask rules

File photo dated 15/06/16 of fraffic crossing the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in the village of Bridgend, Co Donegal. For residents of the small Irish village, prime ministerial statements made in the distant Westminster Parliament are usually an irrelevant affair. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday March 29, 2017. But as Theresa May triggers Article 50, starting the process that will see Britain leave the EU, there are genuine fears on the impact this could have on the lives of those living in this North West border area which straddles Londonderry and Donegal. See PA story POLITICS Brexit Border. Photo credit should read: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Slower vaccine roll-out in RoI 'could slow easing of restrictions' in NI

Dr Black, chair of the BMA’s NI Committee, spoke to the News Letter after the number of Covid patients in hospital here dipped below the first wave peak

Northern Ireland should pursue ‘near elimination strategy’ to tackle virus, says...

News Letter editorial

Michael McBride’s warning of year-long Covid restrictions was ill-advised

PSNI officers patrol Belfast city centre during the Coronavirus pandemic restriction period. PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Tough new lockdown message from Stormont as Covid advice ‘put into regulations’

Dr Michael McKenna administers a vaccination to 94 year old Eileen Lynch. (Photo: Kelvin Boyes/Presseye)

Eileen Lynch (94) becomes first in NI to receive Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

Stormont's first minister Arlene Foster, health minister Robin Swann, and deputy first minister Michelle O’Neill. Yet it is the health bodies whoe seem to take decisions, not the political leaders whose responsibility it is

Politicians have subcontracted Covid decisions, which is a dereliction of duty

Dr John D Woods of the BMA called for ‘clear planning’ for the next stage of the pandemic

NI doctors: We can’t provide full services to non-Covid-19 patients

Dr Tom Black.

Four-week lockdown is ‘pragmatic decision’ for NI says BMA Chair Dr Tom Black

Dr Tom Black

Top NI doctor: Stormont’s decision not to impose fresh lockdown ‘negligent’

DUP MLA Paul Frew: PACEMAKER BELFAST.

Continuing unease in DUP ranks over Covid lockdown policy

British Medical Association Northern Ireland committee chairman Dr Tom Black

Return to full lockdown needed in NI as health service creaks: Doctor

People over 85 and frontline NHS workers could receive the vaccine as early as next month.

Coronavirus NI - Covid-19 vaccine to be ‘given to frontline NHS staff and over 8...

First Minister Arlene Foster at a press conference in Parliament Buildings, Stormont this afternoon.

Arlene Foster ‘respectfully disagrees’ with doctors’ criticism of new Coronaviru...

Letter to the editor

Doom and gloom over Covid yet death rates and hospital admissions are low

A doctor

Doctors leaders call for swift pay rise for Northern Ireland

Dr Tom Black

Coronavirus: Survey shows a third of NI doctors suffering higher stress levels

Dr Tom Black said non-coronavirus patients need to be brought back into the system

Coronavirus: BMA in NI says doctors worried about impacts on non-Covid-19 patien...

British tech firm Medicspot are transforming safety in GP surgeries

Almost half of NI's acute hospital beds are currently empty - 1900 beds in total.

Coronavirus: Half of NHS beds in NI lying empty, as BMA says that non-Covid-19 p...

Almost half of NI's acute hospital beds are currently empty - 1900 beds in total.

Coronavirus: Half of NHS beds in NI lying empty, as BMA says that non-Covid-19 p...

Dr Tom Black, chair of the BMA NI, said it was possible difficult choices might have to be made. Photo: Darren Kidd, presseye.com

Coronavirus: Department of Health silent on who may be refused ventilators after...

Lisburn racing driver Dr Paul Conn died following a crash at Kirkistown on Saturday

BMA tribute to race death GP Paul Conn

The abortion debate should be blunt and it is legitimate to use shock tactics that show the horror

Ben Lowry: The real debate is over abortion on demand, but is yet to be had

The BMA's Tom Black said the situation was 'as bad as we've ever seen it'

BMA tells Stormont: NI has fewer GPs than in 1950s