THE health service will need Northern Ireland's entire government budget to function in 20 years' time unless there is urgent reform, a powerful civil servant has warned.
WORK helping parent-infant bonding for Co Down families experiencing "challenging and complex" social pressures has been singled out as a "rare jewel" in a report launched at Westminster.
DETECTIVES investigating the Muckamore Abbey Hospital abuse scandal have told families it will take another 12 weeks before viewing of CCTV footage of just one ward is complete - almost two years after the probe was first ordered.
THE Department of Health has today published details of 'public engagement' events across Northern Ireland to discuss controversial proposals on overhauling stroke and breast assessment services.
The Department of Health last night said "sustained investment" is required to address the waiting list backlog after new figures revealed an increase in the number of people waiting to see a consultant for the first time.
WORKFORCE pressures and delays in mental health services across the Belfast health trust are putting suicidal patients at risk, a high-profile campaigner has warned NHS bosses.
CONTROVERSIAL seclusion and "potential financial abuse" of vulnerable patients were discovered over the past three months in inspections of a hospital at the centre of a massive abuse probe.
A DERRY man has told a landmark public inquiry that he learned an hour before taking the stand how the NHS had treated him with HIV-infected blood decades ago.
SPONTANEOUS applause broke out yesterday after the first witness at the Infected Blood Inquiry in Belfast finished giving evidence detailing the harrowing impact of the scandal on his life.
CHRONIC staffing shortages in the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service left the entire city of Belfast without paramedic overnight cover on a Saturday night last month.