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Following the successful launch of its first clinic in Belfast earlier this year, Emerald Urgent Care has accelerated the launch of its second clinic based on patient demand. Pictured is Emerald Healthcare Group director and business partner, Stuart Thornhill, programme director, Sharon Giddings and Jonny Davies, managing director of Emerald Urgent Care

NI private healthcare provider to expand with three more clinics

The Easter holidays will impact the opening hours of your doctor's surgery.

Are GPs open over the Easter weekend? What to do if you get sick

Gerard Greene, chief executive of Community Pharmacy NI, has warned about the effects on services.

Dentists, pharmacies and GPs warn of 'collapse' from National Insurance hike

Farmers and their tractors have been protesting in Westminster, London over the changes to inheritance tax (IHT) rules in the budget which introduced new taxes on farms worth more than £1 million

Letter: UK's food system is riddled with unfairness

GP surgeries will be closing their doors for Christmas - this is where to go if you need to see a doctor.

Where to go if you need medical care at Christmas

GP practises and pharmacies across the UK have been caught up in the global IT outage (Photo: Pexel, Pixabay)

GPs and pharmacies across UK hit by CrowdStrike outage

(Photo: Ben Bauer/PA Wire)

Global IT outage disrupts airlines, banks and appointments: what to do

Amid questions around health management and delivery, there are still nurses, doctors and staff who have the human touch

Letter: Compassion in healthcare is disappearing within a bureaucratic minefield

Dr Stout takes commences his role as chair of BMA’s Northern Ireland council from July 11

Dr Alan Stout elected as new chair of BMA’s Northern Ireland council

Blurred figures of people with medical uniforms in hospital corridor

Junior doctors in Northern Ireland stage 48-hour strike

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

Blurred figures of people with medical uniforms in hospital corridor

Junior doctors start full stoppage from hospitals and GP surgeries over pay

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 on Wednesday, with a second 48-hour strike scheduled for June 6-8. Photo by Jonathan Porter/Press Eye

Health minister says he has ‘done all he can’ for junior doctors ahead of strike

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

General view of a GP at work (Dr Judah Eastwell, Altrincham, England, 2020: Getty)

Change to GP contracts in Northern Ireland 'the biggest for decades'
An advocate for Northern Irish doctors says that changes announced today to how GP practices get funded are “huge”, and will help stem the closure of surgeries.
Adam Kula

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 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

The skin rash caused by measles.

Measles: First case of illness in Northern Ireland for seven years is confirmed

Undated handout photo issued by Carers NI of Louise Vance, 43, from Belfast, who provides unpaid care for her mother, who suffers from chronic heart and lung conditions and memory loss following a brain haemorrhage.

Unpaid carers save NI’s health service £5.8 billion a year, research suggests

Dr Sarah Fleming of Ballymoney Family Practice has been named RCGP Northern Ireland GP of the Year

Co Antrim doctor named NI GP of the Year 2023

Morning View

Editorial: NHS is rightly a source of pride but it badly needs reform

Concern as more GP surgeries in Northern Ireland at risk of closure.

Concern as more GP surgeries in Northern Ireland at risk of closure

Some people with dysphagia have problems swallowing certain foods

Dysphagia booklet launched

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General view of Belfast city centre.

Photo by Jonathan Porter / Press Eye.

Shops, GP surgeries, schools and more to close for Queen's funeral

The mass vaccination centre at the Titanic Exhibition Centre in Belfast a

NI’s largest mass vaccine clinic to close tomorrow

Dr Alan Stout said 150,000-160,000 consultations are being held per week by GPs

Top doctor says GPs are seeing an ‘astronomical’ number of patients in NI
“Astronomical” numbers of patients are contacting GP surgeries, a leading doctor has said.
Rebecca Black

Orfhlaith Begley highlighted an alleged 'postcode lottery' when she wrote to Health Minister Robin Swann

Sinn Fein claim of vaccination ‘postcode lottery’ rejected

The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine is loaded into a syringe before being administered to a patient at Falls Surgery on the Falls Road, Belfast.

Almost 100,000 Covid vaccinations administered in NI so far

The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine has been approved for UK use - what you nee...

Vulnerable groups have been warned that falling ill with common conditions such as flu could put them at greater risk of coronavirus.
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Here’s how GPs are adapting to make patients feel safe when receiving their flu ...

Rhyan McCoy delivering gloves, sanitiser and face visors to Carrickfergus Homecare.

Larne schools manufacture over 2,000 visors for frontline staff

British tech firm Medicspot are transforming safety in GP surgeries

A hospital bed

Belfast hospital sets up isolation unit in preparation for COVID-19 patients

Northern Ireland lagging behind rest of the UK in getting  dementia diagnosed

Unison protestors at Craigavon Civic Centre

Council vows to back healthcare workers as union holds protest

The paramedic accused the NIAS of causing stress and depression

Ambulance chief bids to address staff ‘stress, depression and suicidal thoughts’

Children with their mouths taped were accompanied by activists and Sinn Fein politicians at the Irish language protest at Stormont on September 28

No-one is stopped from speaking Irish

A doctor

Failed Stormont talks causing 'uncontrolled collapse' of GP services, union says

Ewan in uniform for his first day at grammar school

Joy for youngster who battled two brain tumours to start school

Dr Tom Black

Executive sleep-walking towards primary care crisis, say doctors

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