Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) is aware that two children who attend a primary school in Co Tyrone are being treated in hospital after contracting meningococcal septicaemia.
Two County Tyrone pharmacists have brought home trophies from Northern Ireland’s leading awards ceremony - the highly-esteemed annual Pharmacy in Focus awards.
Plans to introduce a new ‘clinical response model’ for the Ambulance Service could result in Mid Ulster having a central hub located at Desertcreat, near Cookstown.
The Northern Health Trust is appealing to the public not to go to the Emergency Departments (ED) at Antrim and Causeway Hospitals unless they are seriously ill or injured and need treatment immediately.
SDLP MLA for Mid Ulster, Patsy McGlone, is urging the Department for Health to set a date for the development of a new-build mental health facility at the Antrim Area Hospital site.
A County Tyrone mother whose toddler son went through intensive treatment in the US to correct a spinal curve, says she wants to help other parents who find themselves “in the same shoes as we have”.
The Emergency Departments at Craigavon Area Hospital and Daisy Hill in Newry are ‘extremely busy’, according to the Southern Health and Social Care Trust.
A new health initiative to deal with cataracts could mark a turning point in the long drawn out rundown of services at Mid Ulster and South Tyrone hospitals, according to a local councillor.
The development of new regional elective care centres for the treatment of cataracts and varicose veins could help to significantly reduce waiting times for patients across Northern Ireland, the Department of Health has said.
Singer-songwriter Malachi Cush is to be the new patron of The Niamh Louise Foundation, one of Northern Ireland’s most established suicide prevention and bereavement charities.
