Mike Nesbitt

US President Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer hold a joint press conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington DC. The Prime Minister has resisted calls for the UK to immediately hit back at US tariffs on British goods. Photo: Carl Court/PA Wire

Economist questions logic of Mike Nesbitt's Trump trade deal comments

Donald Trump with Emma Little-Pengelly and Gordon Lyons at the Capitol Hill St Patrick's Day lunch event on Wednesday March 12 2025. Picture by Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye

Ben Lowry: US visit was minor triumph for unionists who went to American capital

TUV MP Jim Allister.

Nesbitt's UK trade deal warning to Trump is 'absurd' - Jim Allister

Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly presenting US President Donald Trump with a personalized flag from Royal Portrush Golf Club, at the US Capitol in Washington DC. Photo: NI Executive /PA Wire

Little Pengelly: NATO membership helped sell NI in the United States

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has already warned it could leave him facing a £400 million funding shortfall

Short-term health approaches could cause lasting damage to services, body warns

The Ulster Hospital in Dundonald, near East Belfast.

Ulster Hospital's £4m new unit set back by months

Stormont's health minister and UUP leader Mike Nesbitt. Photo credit: David Young/PA Wire

Nesbitt misses Trump - but warns US about giving UK a better trade deal than EU

Muckamore Abbey Hospital

Chair of Muckamore abuse inquiry ‘hopes to deliver report this year’

(left to right) Stormont Finance Minister John O’Dowd, Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn, deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and Health Minister Mike Nesbitt during a visit to the Eden Park Medical Practice in north Belfast

Ministers hail funding to extend health early intervention initiative

NI Health Minister Mike Nesbitt in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, ahead of the Stormont Health Committee meeting. Picture date: Tuesday January 7, 2025. PA Photo. See PA story ULSTER Hospitals. Photo credit should read: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Final sum to tackle health waiting lists ‘still to be determined’ – Mike Nesbitt

Stormont’s Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt asks for clarity on waiting list pledge

Ann McBrien, a metastatic breast cancer patient & co-author of the metastatic breast cancer research, alongside Jean Lillis, mother of Julie Anne Lillis who advocated for metastatic breast cancer patients in Northern Ireland to be counted and for an audit of their care. Julie Anne, who sadly passed away in March 2023, worked tirelessly on this cause with Ann.

NI metastatic breast cancer study unveiled

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt speaking to the media outside La Mon Hotel in Belfast, where he said that it will be a "terrible condemnation" of the Stormont powersharing Executive if pledges of extra money in the programme for government to tackle hospital waiting lists are not delivered

‘Terrible condemnation’ of Executive if PFG waiting list pledges are not met

Stormont’s Health minister has expressed surprise that the programme for government includes a pledge of £215 million a year to tackle health waiting lists in Northern Ireland

Mike Nesbitt says waiting list funding commitment a 'welcome' surprise

Radiography Car and Briefcase – Expanding Access to Imaging, led by Radiography

Allied Health Professionals showcase innovations improving healthcare

A sign outside the Royal Victoria Hospital complex

Health minister tasks officials with learning “key lessons”
The health minister has said that he tasked officials with learning “key lessons” from the troubled maternity hospital project and applying them to the new children’s hospital.
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GBHP has been awarded the contract to deliver a new state-of-the-art Children’s Hospital at the Royal Victoria Hospital site in Belfast

NI firm awarded contract to deliver new £671m children’s hospital in Belfast

Construction work begins on groundbreaking City Deal centre. Pictured is Professor Ian Young, chief scientific advisor to the Northern Ireland Department of Health, councillor Micky Murray, Lord Mayor of Belfast, professor Sir Ian Greer, president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald, Health Minister Mike Nesbitt and professor Judy Bradley, Director of iREACH Health

Construction work begins on groundbreaking £64m City Deal centre in Belfast

David Porter (right), director of strategic development at the Belfast Trust, showing First Minister Michelle O'Neill (second right), deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly and Health Minister Mike Nesbitt an artist impression of how the new Belfast children's hospital development will look when completed.

Work to begin on delayed £671 million children’s hospital in Belfast

Mike Nesbitt is to contact the Belfast trust about the drug

Nesbitt to ask Belfast trust why it cannot offer new muscular dystrophy drug

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Call for ‘reality check’ over funding Northern Ireland’s health service

Mike Farrar has been appointed as the interim Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health

Interim Permanent Secretary for Department of Health announced

MLAs have backed extending a UK government smoking ban to Northern Ireland. Photo: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Concerns tobacco industry will use Windsor Framework to undermine smoking ban

NI Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Bill to curb smoking and vaping ‘an opportunity to save lives’ – Mike Nesbitt

Diane Dodds is the DUP's health spokesperson. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Clinical negligence costing NI health service £99,000 per day - DUP's Dodds

Daisy Hill hospital Newry has temporarily closed emergency surgery due to staff issues and patient safety concerns.

'Political context' to call for a cross-border hospital in Newry say unionists

Jim Montgomery served as mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, and sat on the council from 2015 to 2023

Trio of major UUP figures pay tribute to former councillor Jim Montgomery
Ulster Unionist figures have offered their recollections of former Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Councillor Jim Montgomery following his death.
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Robin Swann MP with Bill proposer Dr Scott Arthur MP

Swann backs Rare Cancers Bill

Northern Ireland and Wales unite for cancer innovation

Northern Ireland and Wales unite for cancer innovation

The NHS is suffering severe problems and is under immense pressure. There are six health and social care trusts providing care to the community in Northern Ireland

Letter: Investigate the costs of health care bureaucracy

Photo caption:- From left to right front row – Sharon Gormley (DNI member), Chrstopher Higgins (DNI member), Mike Nesbitt MLA (Health Minister),Allison Batchelor (DNI member), Graham McElhinney (DNI member) From left to right second row – Stephanie Green ( DNI Campaigns & Membership Lead), Patricia Hutchinson (DNI Empowerment Facilitator), Stephen Kennedy ( DNI member), Martin Murtagh (DNI member)

Dementia NI challenges health minister to reduce waiting times for a dementia di...

Fiona Carragher, chief policy, and research officer, Alzheimer's Society, and Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Dementia: Charity calls on Health Minister to make condition a priority in NI

Lord Elliott said: “Unionism needs to look at the bigger picture. We always battle around elections on the detail. But what we need to do is look at some stuff we agree on."

Letter: Unionism will continue to repeat mistakes of the past

Timothy Gaston at Stormont: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Some patients waiting over a decade for medical procedures

Flu levels in Northern Ireland have taken a dip over the past week – while infection rates surge ahead in England.

Flu levels dip while rates in England surge

Latest NHS figures: Cancer care in Northern Ireland is 'crumbling'

Ulster Unionist peer Lord Elliott of Ballinamallard says something along the lines of the 1970s United Ulster Unionist Council could be a model for co-operation between his party and the DUP.

Lord Elliott says jobs and positions would be 'stumbling block' to merger

Health minister Mike Nesbitt pictured today on his way to the meeting called to address winter hospital pressures

A&E crisis: Flu spike this year says Nesbitt as he rules out bringing in army

Scots are borrowing money and remortgaging properties to pay for private healthcare.

Emergency doctors calls for urgent action on winter pressures

Health Minister Mike Nesbiit will be quizzed by MLAs in an "emergency meeting" due to what the Royal College of Nursing has described as one of the most difficult winters "ever seen" in hospital Emergency Departments.

Nesbitt in 'emergency meeting' on A&E winter backlog

Stormont messages had plenty of adjectives like ‘first class’ and ‘top quality’, but few hints of a plan to restore Northern Ireland's place in the UK economy and rebuild its struggling public services

Owen Polley: Stormont politicians issue meaningless new year messages

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Editorial: Big challenges ahead for UUP in coming year amid internal divisions

Health minister Mike Nesbitt speaking to the media at Parliament Buildings in Stormont in November: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Health minister Mike Nesbitt 'fears for the next couple of weeks'

DUP leader Gavin Robinson placed a great emphasis on improving the health service in 2025

DUP and UUP New Year Messages focus on health service

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has congratulated health and social care staff on the New Year Honours list

Minister congratulates staff on New Year Honours list

UUP health minister Mike Nesbitt

Demand on NHS 'well exceeds capacity' says health minister

An ambulance at an A&E

‘Be patient with hospital staff’ says Department of Health

Part of the Royal Victoria Hospital complex

DUP MLA discovers millions of pounds 'squandered' on mothballed energy plant

Deputy First Minister Emma Little Pengelly, Finance Minister Caoimhe Archibald, and First Minister Michelle O'Neill during a press conference today at Stormont Castle, Belfast

Stormont ministers agree to put draft budget out for public consultation

Politicians have reacted to the news of a pay deal breakthrough for Northern Ireland's health and social workers

Questions need to be asked over pay offer wait for health workers: TUV

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt and Justice Minister Naomi Long were greeted by Nexus CEO Joanne Barnes during a recent visit to the charity’s headquarters in Belfast

Ministers of Justice and Health visit Nexus headquarters in Belfast

A pay deal has been reached with Northern Ireland's health unions

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt hails pay deal breakthrough for workers

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt MLA pictured with the first ever cohort of paramedics to be trained in Northern Ireland as they graduate from Ulster University in Londonderry

Historic moment as first paramedics graduate in Northern Ireland

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt with Dr Rosie Hogg, Consultant Anaesthetist at BHSCT and Clinical Co-Chair of the Elective Care Centre Implementation Group for the Department of Health

‘Mega Clinics’ making a real difference for long-waiting patients

Dr Adell told the Stormont health committee there is 'no one big thing we can do' to transform the situation over waiting lists

Investment of more than £1bn needed to fix NI waiting lists, MLAs told

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