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Joy Cullen gave up her job as her hip pain pre-surgery was too severe

NHS patients choose to travel further for surgeries under scheme

Morning View

Editorial: Labour rally a reminder of the big challenges facing the UK

Ulster Bank business development manager Lee White with Chris Mackey of Mackey Opticians and Portadown practice manager Rachel McDonald

75-year-old NI opticians expands with new practice in six-figure investment

Some 1,400 people contact the Department of Health every year seeking help to access emergency dental treatment, it has been revealed.

Dental care crisis: 1,400 people ask Department for emergency help each year

Morning View

Editorial: MPs made the right decision on assisted suicide law

New Health offers clinician-led weight management designed to fit around everyday life, without the need for in-person appointments.

What private weight management treatments are available without NHS?

Anita Culberton, whose family have organised a fundraiser in aid of the Hummingbird Project, in her memory.

Actor James Nesbitt supports Coleraine family's fundraising in memory of Anita

More than 850 of the hardest-to-reach members of communities across the country will be seen onboard

Mobile dental unit to deliver care to rough sleepers

Robbie Butler has taken up the reins of the Department of Health from Mike Nesbitt

New health minister 'wants to give nurses a raise but Executive has to say yes'

Northern Trust runs Causeway Hospital at Coleraine.

Shifting Causeway service to Antrim ‘clinically and operationally appropriate’

Mike Nesbitt pictured last year at the Pan American Health Organisation headquarters in Washington, during St Patrick's week.

David Thompson: Health is political, and a Nesbitt–Burrows clash was inevitable

Robbie Butler signing in as the new minister at the Speaker’s Office in Parliament Buildings, Stormont, and is pictured with party leader Jon Burrows and Speaker Edwin Poots. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Quicker NHS care is Butler’s priority but stays silent on hospital row

Teenagers and uni starters are at highest meningitis risk

Meningitis alert issued as students head to uni

UUP leader Jon Burrows, with deputy leader Diana Armstrong, at a press conference in the Great Hall at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, regarding the resignation of Health Minister Mike Nesbitt. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Burrows presses on with new approach to health reform after Nesbitt resignation

A £1.2m solar panel system on top of Causeway Hospital. Photo: Northern Health Trust

Scorcher of a saving! How sun sees hospital cut over £140k from electricity bill

Dr Zoe Williams and Leanne Lindsay, Specsavers Lisburn: ZEST procedure can help with dry eyes

Hidden menopause: dry eyes, burning tongues and tingling limbs
While hot flushes and mood swings dominate the conversation around menopause, a staggering number of women in Northern Ireland are suffering from severe, lesser-known daily symptoms that are completely missing from official health resources.
David Rankin

Nearly two in 10 older people avoided going to A&E during winter last year due to these concerns

Six in 10 over 65s worry about catching flu from A&E trips

Morning View

Editorial: Hospital report needs action, as does overall care

This week is National Blood Week

Ad Feature Survey reveals the real reason people don’t give blood

Intimidation of foreign nationals who work in the NHS adds pressure to a health system that's already under strain, health bosses have said. Photo: TenWit - stock.adobe.com

Protests making it “increasingly difficult” for the NHS to operate normally

Closed businesses on a quiet street in Belfast city centre on Wednesday after violence erupted on east Belfast following a stabbing attack

Business groups across NI sign joint statement condemning disorder in Belfast

The skeleton of a Glider bus which was set on fire by protesters last night on the Newtownards Road in east Belfast

Translink to suspend all bus and rail services due to 'expected protests'

A police cordon at the scene in the Kinnaird Avenue area of north Belfast. Picture: Rebecca Black/PA Wire

Belfast victim lost eye and suspect said ‘I’ve killed someone’, court told

Sharpsmart works with hospitals and healthcare providers across the UK to deliver specialist healthcare waste services.

Ad Feature Sharpsmart strengthens waste service resilience and greener logistics

Northern Ireland’s Comptroller and Auditor General Dorinnia Carville says nurses are leaving the NHS due to pressures of work, not feeling valued, and wanting more pay - with many opting to work for agencies instead.

Spending on nursing agencies trebles to £162m in six years

Co-founders of Predictive Health Intelligence, Tim Jobson and Neil Stevens

Ad Feature New study reveals new way to find serious liver disease earlier

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer visits a children's activity centre in Brentwood, Essex, as the government announces Great British Summer Savings, a UK-wide scheme to support families and help ease pressures on household budgets this summer. Picture date: Thursday May 21, 2026. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Kin Cheung/PA Wire

Starmer: I’ll campaign for Burnham
Sir Keir Starmer has said he will be out campaigning for potential leadership challenger Andy Burnham in the Makerfield by-election.
By Sophie Wingate and Nina Lloyd, Press Association Political Staff

The Alzheimer's Society estimates that about a million people in the UK have dementia

Dementia care in the UK “stuck in a system of delay, denial and neglect”, a cha...

Letters to editor

Letter: Relief at fall of attempt to bring in law on assisted suicide

Images of the night-time go-slow convoy at Ballygawley on Thursday night (from DUP councillor Mark Robinson)

Fresh fuel protest at Ballygawley as tractors bring traffic down to a crawl

Northern Ireland contractor Henry Brothers has started work on a project to expand the Stroke Unit at Lincoln County Hospital

NI contractor starts work on £1.9m hospital stroke unit refurbishment

Nearly 800 people died and 10,000 were injured as a result of accidents in Northern Ireland in 2023/24, statistics have shown

Nearly 800 deaths a year from accidents in Northern Ireland, figures show

Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) on the picket line outside John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford yesterday

Doctors’ strike costs ‘a few’ new hospitals

Tony Dorrian says the workers Party supports the call of health service staff to have the Palantir system removed immediately.

Workers Party Representative Tony Dorrian has expressed his concern that the Wes...

Baroness Heather Hallett, inquiry chairwoman, giving a statement following the publication UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry Module 3 Report. Issue date: Thursday March 19

Stay-at-home pandemic order sent message NHS was closed – Covid-19 Inquiry

Mike Nesbitt's health ministry has dodged questions about whether it will follow an NHS England trans drug ban. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Nesbitt urged to give 'clear answers' on latest NHS trans drugs ban

Private MRI scans can now be booked directly online, offering faster results than standard NHS waiting times.

You can now book private health scans from £80 – with results in hours

People gathered all across the world for speeches and prayers in support of Ukraine on the four-year anniversary of Russia's invasion last month

Letter: Discussion needed on rearmament

Ulster University Professor of Intelligent Technologies, Prof Joan Condell, appointed to new UK medical science careers taskforce

Ulster University technology expert appointed to UK Medical Science Careers Task...

Marie Doyle, Deloitte

NHS, cost of living and immigration top list of concerns for Northern Ireland pu...

The paediatric endocrinology service - which administered puberty blockers - was based at the Royal Victoria Hospital for sick children. Photo: Belfast Trust

NHS saw opportunity for 'income generation' from child gender clinic

Morning View

Editorial: Free hospital car parking cannot be a priority

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt is set to defer free hospital car parking - saying the money could be better spent on services. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

'Honesty needed' from politicians as Minister set to defer free hospital parking

Professor Alice Roberts in Digging for Britain - she recently spoke at the NI Science Festival

Prof Alice Roberts on Clooney Road, christianity and the human story

The latest independent polling from the University of Liverpool Institute of Irish Studies shows that among those expressing a view, almost 60 per cent would vote to remain in the UK

Alex Easton: Union still clear choice for NI voters

Health minister Mike Nesbitt. Photo: Mark Marlow/PA Wire

Pay hike means NI health chiefs paid more than the Prime Minister - MLA

Ciara Brennan her partner Sean and her children Sarah, Mark and Layla

Stroke cases set to surge by 2035

Anti-abortion protesters marched from Portadown to Craigavon Area Hospital in September 2023. That same year saw a 28% rise in the number of terminations carried out in Northern Ireland. Photo: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

MP's call to tighten laws as number of abortions hits record high

Trans rights groups were involved in a 'co-design' of NI gender identity services. Photo credit should read: Lesley Martin/PA Wire

MLAs call for transparency over Nesbitt gender clinic report

Gavin Robinson MP was speaking after revelations by the head of the UK Armed Forces, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, to MPs on the Westminster Defence Select Committee on Monday. Photo: PA

‘Alarming’ that UK war plan not updated in 25 years

Fiona McCarthy is calling on the health minister to halt outsourcing (privatisation) of services.

Workers Party Representative Fiona McCarthy has called on the Health Minister to...

The DUP and government have expressed concern over new EU rules on medicines. Photo: James Manning/PA Wire

EU medicines rules could push NHS in NI 'to breaking point' - DUP

Scan.com UK’s private service can help cut through the NHS waiting lists

Waiting months for an NHS scan? Private MRI results arrive in days

Support for people in their communities could help deal with the “root causes” of many hospital admissions, the Archbishop of Canterbury-elect Sarah Mullally has said as she highlighted the “increasing pressure” on the nation’s hospitals.

Church should be healing presence in nation, says Archbishop of Canterbury-elect

Health services in Northern Ireland faced "difficult problems" in 2005, with a senior civil servant warning that the pressures will "become even more acute over the coming years". However, the author of a health review was also told that there was "strong political and public attachment to the NHS model" in the region and that it had provided an "impartial community resource" throughout the Troubles. Issue date:

NI health service problems would become more acute, official warned in 2005

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