SDLP Leader Colum Eastwood has written to Secretary of State Chris Heaton Harris today urging him to urgently intervene to…
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Durkan: Patient safety at risk as Emergency Departments reach breaking point
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan has expressed serious concerns around the situation unfolding in Emergency Departments across the North. He…
Durkan: North’s health workforce punished by bad pay deal
SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan said an agreed pay deal for NHS staff in England will prove bittersweet for health…
Norris: Emergency intervention required to support nurses
SDLP councillor Declan Norris has urged the British government to meet with the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and reach…
SDLP expresses support for striking nursing staff
Local SDLP MLAs Mark H Durkan and Sinéad McLaughlin have expressed the party’s solidarity with Royal College of Nursing members…
Nurses in the North of Ireland are to be balloted on strike action. It follows a similar move across the…
Derry doctor’s fear for patient safety amid Covid pressures
A TOP Derry doctor has warned that it is “almost impossible” to provide a safe service at Altnagelvin Hospital due…
Coronavirus: Trusts suspends visiting to Derry hospitals
VISITING to Derry hospitals and other hospitals in the Western Health and Social Care Trust have been suspended on Thursday…
SDLP leader calls for mandatory health worker vaccines
SDLP leader Colum Eastwood has called for Covid-19 vaccines to be made compulsory for health workers in the North of…
Durkan calls for meaningful pay rise for health staff
THE SDLP’s Mark H Durkan has demanded a meaningful pay rise for NHS staff and has reiterated calls from health…