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Deirdre Heenan: Health service transformation is a pipe dream unless MLAs are willing to make – and own – tough decisions

Little progress has been made on Professor Rafael Bengoa's plan to transform health and social care provision since it was published in 2016, with spiralling waiting lists being just one of the worrying outcomes from MLAs' failure to make difficult decisions. Picture by Mal McCann
Deirdre Heenan
The dust has settled, the votes have been counted, the public have had their say, but the north remains in limbo. What happens now? Are we any closer to restoring the devolved institutions? How long c[...]

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