Health

A5 Beltany Road

Funding for £2.1bn A5 over and above Dublin’s €600m will be found, says O’Dowd

Nurosym can help you get a better night's sleep

What are Nurosym users saying about the wearable device?

PSNI and FDST cooking class.

Derry police initiative helps empower people with Down syndrome

IHCP Pauline Shepherd

IHCP Pauline Shepherd blasts appalling racist attacks in Derry’s Waterside

NWCC staff.

Derry Cancer Centre proudly celebrates its 10th anniversary

Altnagelvin A&E

Middleton says ‘disturbing’ assault on Derry paramedic follows 72,000 attacks

Altnagelvin A&E.

Assault on Derry paramedic prompts shock, anger and calls for zero tolerance

ARC Fitness founder and Mental Health Nurse Gary Rutherford.

Building confidence and self-esteem in recovery

Dolores at her daughter Emer's wedding just four months before she passed away.

Dolores remembered as family welcome new drug for rare hypertension illness

Professor Siobhan O'Neill.

Prof. O’Neill warns spending committee of 'severe' mental health pressures

MLA Mark H. Durkan with a bag of dumped letters.

Royal Mail investigates dumped letters in Derry

MP Colum Eastwood and Foyle Hospice Chief Executive Donall Henderson at Westminster.

Eastwood says Foyle Hospice care should not have to rely on donations

Mark Gillespie (left), with Western Trust colleagues meeting with Health Minister Robbie Butler at Altnagelvin Hospital recently.

Western Trust and Derry MLAs welcome investment in Endometriosis healthcare

The late Adrian Sharkey

Sharkey family to switch on Foyle Hospice Lights of Love in memory of Adrian

Buncrana’s Children’s Charity, the organisation will officially become Inishowen’s Children’s Charity CLG.

From a 16-year-old’s idea to an Inishowen-wide charity

The Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) Multi-Disciplinary Social Work Team, in collaboration with Derry City and Strabane Council, were delighted to host their annual "Chat-Tea Ball" event in the Waterfoot Hotel recently, as part of Positive Ageing Month with 199 people attending.

In photos: Derry's Western Trust "Chat-Tea Ball" event in the Waterfoot Hotel
The Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) Multi-Disciplinary Social Work Team, in collaboration with Derry City and Strabane Council, were delighted to host their annual "Chat-Tea Ball" event in the Waterfoot Hotel recently, as part of Positive Ageing Month with 199 people attending.
Jack Tibbetts

Dr Tom Black.

Complexity of medicine in the modern world

Hospital waiting room.

368 people left Altnagelvin A&E before treatment

Altnagelvin A&E

Half of 5k patients at Derry A&E needed ‘immediate’ or ‘very urgent’ treatment'

Seamus McCloskey, Dungiven, along with family and friends with a cheque for £13,709.03, for Foyle Hospice, S.A.R.D.A, Legenderry Relay for life, Cancer fund for Children.

Dungiven’s Seamus McCloskey raises £13k for local charities

Nurosym's earpiece has helped people relieve various symptoms

This unusual earpiece claims to help with anxiety, fatigue and pain

Social Enterprise Leader of the Year, Gary Rutherford, founder of ARC Fitness.

Derry social enterprises win big at Awards

Belfast City Hospital. PICTURE BY STEPHEN DAVISON

Heart patient’s shock at being told he did not meet criteria for cardiac device

Heart of Foyle volunteers with pupils from St Paul's Primary School in Galliagh.

Heart of Foyle shares life-saving skills with Derry schoolchildren

Derry Girls and Game of Thrones actor Ian McElhinney.

Lidl shoppers being offered a chat with Derry Girls' Granda Joe

Derry’s Hive Cancer Support Choir

Hive choir to feature on Curfá – TG4’s search for Ireland’s best choir

Altnagelvin A&E

Under pressure Altnagelvin ED shows need for public service investment: Boggs
Sustained pressure on Derry’s Altnagelvin Emergency Department (ED) is a prime example of how 'our public services need to be put on a sustainable footing', a local MLA has said.
Kevin Mullan

STRAGEGY 26-31. . . . .The Minister for Health Robbie Butler pictured getting a read through the Derry Well Woman’s newly-launched five-year strategy plan during his visit on Wednesday. He is pictured with Marie Claire McLaughlin, chair and Rhonda Murphy, General Manager. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

Health Minister Robbie Butler visits to Derry Well Women

Directors and staff pictured at the White Oaks Addiction Treatment Centre's 25th anniversary celebrations. Front from left, Stephen McLaughlin, Anne Sweeney, Stan McGowan, Gary McLaughlin and Annemarie Green. Back from left, Gary Harvey, Patricia Rutherford-De Souza, Mark Gibney, Dermot McDonough, Katrina McCallion, Brendan Carlin and Tony Barron, (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

White Oaks Treatment Centre celebrates 25 years of care recovery and hope

Group pictured at the Macmillan Coffee Morning held in House in the Wells. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

IN PICTURES: House in the Wells Macmillan Coffee Morning

Sisters Sharon, Michelle and Anne at the Cancer Focus NI Pink Run held in Ebrington Square on Sunday. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

IN PICTURES: Cancer Focus NI Pink Run in Derry

Colr. Shaun Harkin pictured previously with resident doctors’ on the picket line outside Altnagelvin Hospital. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

No A&E funding shows 'discrimination against North West' continues - Councillor

Hurt Founder Sadie O'Reilly pictured with Dessie Kyle, Centre Manager during Thursday's 25th Anniversary of the charity.. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

‘Our town is on its knees through drugs’

Over a million people are eligible for this year’s free flu vaccine, as the Public Health Agency (PHA) launches the vaccination programme with a call for people to help protect themselves and others this winter.

‘Flu is far worse than a bad cold’ says PHA chief as vaccine programme commences

Derry GP Dr Tom Black.

Do patients have a right of referral on the NHS anymore?

Twenty one per cent of children (4,460) in the Western Trust were known to social services as children in need at the end of March - the highest proportion in the North.

21% of children in WHSCT known to social services – highest rate in the North

Health Minister Robbie Butler with nursing students at Magee College during a visit to the city on Wednesday last.

Robbie Butler inspired by nursing students during visit to Magee

Damien Doherty

Trade union rally and delegation over health service cuts and pay demands

The Deputy Mayor, Catherine McDaid and Micky Doherty counting down before Sunday's DEEDS Dementia Walk at Ebrington Square. (Photos: Jim McCafferty Photography)

IN PICTURES: Dementia Walk for DEEDS

Pictured at the official launch of ‘Willows Embrace’ pregnancy and baby loss booklet at the Guildhall, Derry/Londonderry are representatives from Western Trust; Park Medical Practice, Derry Well Woman; Marie Dunne, Resilio; Laura McConnellogue, Willows Embrace author and Dermot McFadden, dad’s story.

‘Willows Embrace’ launched during Baby Loss Awareness Week

Organisers of the event Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialists Anne-Marie Crossan and Roisin Roddy, pictured with Charlene McClintock, Macmillan Support Worker (centre)

Western Trust hosts colorectal cancer health and wellbeing event

Altnagelvin

Millions invested in WHSCT services to improve patient care and reduce waits

PhD researcher and registered nurse Fiona Halpin.

Magee researcher seeking older people’s and nurses’ views on ageing well

Shiela Duffy, Director of Income Generation and Communications and Ann Marie Casey, director of Nursing pictured with the O’Donnell Family at the Foyle Hospice Coffee Morning. (Photo - Deirdre Heaney, nwpresspics)

IN PICTURES: Coffee Morning at Foyle Hospice

Professor Siobhan O'Neill, Professor of Mental Health Sciences at Ulster University, and Northern Ireland’s Mental Health Champion

New study shows peacebuilding fosters greater empathy, positive relationships

Western Trust Karen Hargan

Karen Hargan says mental health as important as safeguarding physical well-being

Professor Peter O’Hare is a member of the well-known O’Hare pharmacists’ family of Oakfield.

Peter to be honoured with Alumnus Illustrissimus Award

The final meeting of the NI Rare Disease Partnership (NIRDP). Pictured are members of the group with Sandra Campbell, chairperson (standing in red) & Foyle MLAs, Ciara Ferguson (Sinn Féin) & Mark H Durkan (SDLP). (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Rare Disease Partnership forced to close due to lack of funding

Carol and Adele Darby, members of the NI Rare Disease Partnership.

The challenges of living with a rare disease: Adele's story

From left to right: Chris Gallagher, Denis McLaughlin, Ethan and Patrick Kelly.

Meet the Derry volunteers keeping thousands safe

‘I’ve buried my daughter, I should never have had to’

Altnagelvin ED

Series of improvements completed at Altnagelvin Emergency Department

Launch of Ward 5 in the Waterside hospital

Redeveloped Ward 5 opens at Derry's Waterside Hospital

Dr. Niamh Doherty, SAS Doctor in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Western Trust, has been recognised in the inaugural NI Medical and Dental Training Agency (NIMDTA) SAS Recognition Awards 2026.

Dr. Niamh Doherty recognised at NIMTDA SAS awards 2026

Bill Higgins, driver for Welcome Organisation Mobile Health Unit and Michelle Doyle, Public Health Nurse for the homeless at the Western Trust

WHSCT launching winter vaccination campaign for homeless

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