PROTESTORS heckled senior health managers this week at a public meeting about the future of services at the South West Acute Hospital.

A NEW initiative to train staff working within schools in Northern Ireland to better understand the emotional impact of sight loss on young people has been launched.

HEALTH workers are preparing to escalate their protest over pay and staffing levels with two 48 hour strikes next month.

THE Belfast Health Trust has apologised to people affected during the contaminated blood scandal.

Men and women living in an area of Co Down have the highest life expectancy in Northern Ireland.

PICKET lines returned to Northern Ireland hospitals on Thursday as thousands of health workers took part in a second wave of strike action.

A BELFAST paramedic has said she now witnesses more patients dying after long waits for ambulances than before the pandemic.

THE emergency room at Altnagelvin Area Hospital had the longest waiting time last month at almost 20 hours.

THOUSANDS of health care workers have taken to picket lines across Northern Ireland today in "pursuit of pay justice".

The Government said that the proposal for a pilot scheme was not seen as ‘necessary’.

QUICK acting staff at a Co Down leisure centre saved the life of a man, with the help of what the facility manager described as “one of the greatest inventions ever”.

CHILDREN as young as 12 are being sold vapes illegally, according to new research from the Chartered Trading Standards Institute (tradingstandards.

THE family of Dáithí Mac Gabhann is to meet the secretary of state next week about the delay in the new organ donation legislation.