Mark Taylor

Pancreatic cancer survivor Tom Hawthorne (66) from Lisburn welcomed the new partnership

Partnership to improve outcomes for people with pancreatic cancer in NI

Mark Taylor, the NI Director of the Royal College of Surgeons, was speaking in the wake of the latest disruption to services in NI hospitals.

‘Loss of specialist surgeons from rural hospitals much better for patients’

Dolores McCormick from the Royal College of Nursing told the committee that the health service in the region was “beyond crisis”.

Health service in Northern Ireland has fallen off cliff edge, MPs told

Dr Damien Bennett, Prof Mary Taylor and Sinead Hawkins launch the pancreatic cancer audit

Pancreatic cancer: There were 283 confirmed cases in NI in 2020

The Emergency Department at South West Acute Hospital, Enniskillen.

Surgeon wants to ‘dial down’ fears over suspension of some services at SWAH

Pictured Mel Chittock, interim chief executive officer of Invest Northern Ireland, Pièr Morrow, European officer at Belfast City Council, Mary McGee, interim business solutions officer at Tourism NI, Professor Ultan Power, Outstanding Services to Society award winner, Professor Mark Taylor, Outstanding Lifetime Achievement award winner, TV presenter and event host Jo Scott, Rachael McGuickin, director of business development, Sustainability & Transformation at Visit Belfast and Gerry Lennon, chief executive of Visit Belfast

NI ambassador award winners revealed for 2022

Health Minister Robin Swann said there had been major changes in general surgery over the last 20 years

Swann sets out new plan for general surgery provision in Northern Ireland

Royal College of Surgeons Northern Ireland director, Mark Taylor

Surgeons in ‘moral distress’ over sky-high waiting lists

Undated handout photo issued by Royal College of Surgeons of England of their Northern Ireland director, Mark Taylor.

Top surgeon tells MLAs: Health service faces ‘never before seen’ pressures

Call for emergency NHS summit in NI as waiting times worsen yet further

Surgery. (U.S. Army photo by Maria Pinel)

No cash to tackle waiting lists like we tackled pandemic, says Swann

Surgeons operating on a patient

Crucial NI surgical services are not ‘stood down again’

Hospital staff on a Covid-19 ward

Coronavirus surge: 'What we feared in March is now here' warns top NI surgeon

A health worker wearing full personal protective equipment (PPE) tends to a patient on an intensive care unit (ICU).

Theatre capacity across Northern Ireland to be allocated to those most in need

hospital bed

Top surgeon warns of time bomb as more operations are cancelled

Coronavirus test

Medics’ plea: We are all fed up but please stay firm on Covid rules
The medical Royal Colleges have united to plead with the public to help the health service get through this difficult winter.

A clap for carers at the height of the pandemic at the tower block at Belfast City Hospital, which hosts a Nightingale facility

Almost a third more coronavirus patients in NI hospitals in last 24 hours