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Emergency general surgery is to be temporarily withdrawn at the Daisy Hill hospital in Newry from the end of February. A Southern Health Trust board meeting was told it was an “interim” measure due to ongoing recruitment challenges. This is the first time this has occurred at the hospital, with services to be delivered at […]
Local Fine Gael TD, Fergus O’Dowd, has warmly welcomed news this afternoon that €1m in funding has been secured to assist the development of the long awaited Newgrange Hospice Unit in Drogheda. O’Dowd said “This money today is a real boost for the project which is incredibly important to the Drogheda area and in fact […]
SDLP Upper Bann MLA Dolores Kelly has said local people are frustrated at the lack of progress on a new hospital in the area. Then Sinn Féin Health Minister Michelle O’Neill received a business plan for a new hospital at the site of Craigavon Area Hospital in 2016. Mrs Kelly has written to Health Minister […]
Important update on £𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 for Independent Health ▶️ The Health Minister has confirmed that his Department has written to every Independent Care Home and Domiciliary Care provider in Northern Ireland to receive a list of all qualifying employees. ▶️ The deadline for this information to be provided by the employers to the […]
The Department of Health has confirmed changes to visiting arrangements for all care settings from Monday 1 March. The four UK Chief Medical Officers have recommended that the Regional Alert Level should move back from Level 5 to Level 4 with immediate effect. As a result, the visiting restrictions for all care settings across Northern […]
Sinn Féin representatives Mickey Brady MP, Liz Kimmins MLA and Conor Murphy MLA have met with Shane Devlin the Chief Executive of the Southern Trust, Shane to discuss the future of Daisy Hill Hospital. Speaking after the meeting Conor Murphy said, “This was a constructive engagement with the Trust. We discussed a wide range of […]
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