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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

People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin.

Alarm over cuts to Health Service

Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Ciara Ferguson.

Derry MLA raises concerns over 'growing pressures'

Former Minister for Health, Mike Nesbitt chatting to Dr. Tom Black on his arrival at Abbey Medical Practice, Abbey Street - Western Federation Support Unit, in February. (Photo - Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)

Dr. Tom Black says Mike Nesbitt did 'difficult job well' after shock resignation

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Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Derry MLA says 'tackling obesity calls for more carrot, less stick'

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt pictured during a visit to the North West Cancer Centre, Altnagelvin Hospital with Western Trust Interim Chair, Brian Telford; Chief Executive, Karen Hargan and Director of Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Services, Geraldine McKay along with Pharmacy and Cancer Services staff.

Nesbitt visits North West Cancer Centre and meets patients, staff and volunteers

Mike Nesbitt has defended the introduction of a new regional breast cancer service because it has reduced the variation between the ‘best’ waiting times in the Western Trust and the ‘worst’ in the Southern Trust.

Nesbitt: New breast cancer service has reduced variation between WHSCT and SHSCT

The late Tom Frawley, who passed away on Wednesday.

Mike Nesbitt: Tom Frawley was a ‘mentor’ for whom ‘serving public came first’

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Nesbitt: Resource funding in addition to £73m for capital build required for A&E

Orlagh Conwell, Expectant mother and LifeCellsNI’s first service user; Dr Michael Conwell, Scientific Director, LifeCellsNI; Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt MLA; Catherine King, CEO and Founder, LifeCellsNI; Lynda Lynch, Midwife, LifeCellsNI.

LifeCellsNI biobanking service opened in Derry by Health Minister

Colum Eastwood has welcomed investment in an Emergency Dental Clinic.

Colum Eastwood welcomes investment in Emergency Dental Clinic in Western Trust

SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan. Photograph by Declan Roughan / Press Eye

Durkan calls for urgent fuel support for carers and nurses

Derry Well Woman Endometriosis Support Group has received written confirmation from the Health Minister that "plans and investment for endometriosis services will commence in 2026.

‘Long-overdue step in right direction' - Derry Well Woman Endometriosis Group

Colum Eastwood MP. Photo: George Sweeney

Colum Eastwood says postal failures leaving patients removed from waiting lists

Altnagelvin A&E

New Altnagelvin A&E among ‘long, expensive list of capital projects’

Proposer: SDLP Councillor Martin Reilly.

Council urged to back A&E motion
Derry City & Strabane District Council will this week be asked to back a motion on a new A&E department at Altnagelvin Hospital which calls on the Health Minister to explain ‘exactly where this project stands’.
Brendan McDaid

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

‘Significant investment’ going into 40 years old Altnagelvin A&E

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND - SEPTEMBER 21: Mike Nesbitt. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Health Minister urges public to use HSC‑approved apps to stay well this winter

Altnagelvin A&E

New A&E at Derry’s Altnagelvin is ‘years, not months, away' says Nesbitt

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

Nesbitt concerned at lack of dedicated delirium beds with zero in Western Trust

Patients here have already paid for their healthcare through their National Insurance contributions and through income taxes. It’s a betrayal of the founding principles of the NHS.

Political opinion: Workers Party representative welcomes announcement from Healt...

Patients here have already paid for their healthcare through their National Insurance contributions and through income taxes. It’s a betrayal of the founding principles of the NHS.

Political opinion: Workers Party representative welcomes announcement from Healt...

Staff who work for the private sector are low paid and have inferior terms and conditions of service, that’s why they cannot recruit or retain staff.

Political opinion: Workers Party regional spokesperson comments on decision not ...

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said he believes ambulance waiting times at Altnagelvin have been improving.

Altnagelvin ambulance waiting times improving and ‘double waits’ at ED reducing

Hugh Scullion said everyday is a winter pressures day for staff in the current crisis within our health and social care services

Political opinion: Hugh Scullion Workers Party Representative responding to the ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 20: Trans rights activists take part in a protest against the ban on hormone blockers on April 20, 2024 in London, England. After Dr Hilary Cass delivered her report on NHS gender identity services for children and young people, analysis found most research underpinning clinical guidelines, hormone treatments and puberty blockers to be low quality and the treatments for gender dysphoria have been suspended. The Trans community are protesting against this ban. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Rainbow Project expresses concern as Cass gender services review commissioned

Mark Durkan has claimed lengthening waiting times for red flag breast cancer assessments in the Western Trust are being recorded following the introduction of a new regionalised model in May 2025.

Durkan claims new regional breast cancer system has 'undermined' WHSCT service
Mark Durkan has claimed lengthening waiting times for red flag breast cancer assessments in the Western Trust are being recorded following the introduction of a new regionalised model in May 2025.
Kevin Mullan

Doctors in Northern Ireland more at risk from burnout that other doctors in the Uk

Peter McGuire Workers Party Representative commenting on the survey carried out ...

Councillor Shaun Harkin.

Alarm over private ambulance spend

The Health Minister Mike Nesbitt pictured on the steps of the Guildhall with Derry City and Strabane Healthy City and District Leadership Group.

IN PICTURES: Health Minister Mike Nesbitt meets with organisations in Derry

Sinn Féin Foyle MLA Ciara Ferguson.

'Resolution needed to GP dispute'

L-R: Professor Daniel Kerr, head of the School of Health Sciences at Ulster University (UU); Health Minister Mike Nesbitt; Chief AHP Officer Professor Michelle Tennyson; DoH Permanent Secretary Mike Farrar; Professor Carol Curran, Pro-Vice Chancellor & Executive Dean of UU Faculty of Life & Health Sciences.

Allied Health Professionals 'key' to rebuilding NHS

Caption - (L-R) Aine Morrison, Chief Social Worker, Mark Espina, Hutchinson Homes, Social Care Practitioner, Agnes Lunny, CEO Positive Futures, Mike Nesbitt, Health Minister, Declan McAllister, Interim CEO Northern Ireland Social Care Council, Louise Breen, Positive Futures Social Care Practitioner, Megha Acharya, Nazareth House Care Village Social Care Practitioner and Peggy Faulhaber, Manager of Camphill Clanabogan, Joanne Sansome, Disability Advocate.

Health Minister says ‘thank you’ at launch to recognise the social care workforc...

No dental practices in Derry have signed up to a scheme to deliver urgent dental care to unregistered patients, it’s been revealed.

No dental practices in Derry signed up to emergency access scheme

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy.

Delargy welcomes launch date for Waiting List Reimbursement Scheme

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt. Pic Pacemaker

£7m investment in dental services confirmed

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt’s announcement of a series of initiative to cut waiting lists in the north.

Ferguson welcomes Nesbitt’s waiting list initiatives

Gerard Greene

April 2025 £1million month-end hit will cripple Community Pharmacy

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt. Pacemaker.

Nesbitt to visit Northlands after funding cut

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said finding the money to establish an Emergency Dental Clinic in the west will present a ‘significant challenge’.

Funding western Emergency Dental Clinic will present ‘significant challenge’

SDLP Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

‘People are living in constant pain’

The Health Minister joined the Western Health and Social Care Trust Chief Executive Neil Guckian and Director of Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Service, Geraldine McKay as they visited the Altnagelvin Emergency Department on Tuesday.

Nesbitt says Altnagelvin needs new ED after seeing patient on chairs for 4 days

The Health Minister joined the Western Health and Social Care Trust Chief Executive Neil Guckian and Director of Unscheduled Care, Medicine, Cancer and Clinical Service, Geraldine McKay as they visited the Altnagelvin Emergency Department on Tuesday.

Mike Nesbitt visits Altnagelvin to hear from staff about winter pressures

Dr. Mukesh Chugh receiving a prestigious BB-Mahatma Gandhi Award 2024, from the Honourable Health Minister of Uttarakhand, India, Dr. Dhan Singh Rawat, Dr. Hans, and Baroness Sandip Verma.

Derry anaesthetist Dr. Mukesh Chugh receives BB-Mahatma Gandhi Award 2024

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt. Picture: Pacemaker.

Mike Nesbitt warns of potential cancer, heart scan cancellations

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt is pictured with Aidan Dawson, Chief Executive of the Public Health Agency.

Number of areas in Derry announced as first locations for 'Live Better'

Minister for Health Mike Nesbitt.

Health Minister urged to 'take action' to increase provision of respite services

The average waiting time for an urgent endometriosis patient in the Western Trust is over half a year, the Health Minister Mikes Nesbitt has confirmed.

Half a year wait for urgent endometriosis patients in the Western Trust

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt

10% suicide reduction nothing to celebrate says Nesbitt

Council members will write to Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt, about piloting the ‘Live Better’ health initiative within the Derry City and Strabane District.

Council to contact Nesbitt about piloting Live Better inequality drive in Derry

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt. Picture: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker.

Women in deprived areas living 14 years less 'not unacceptable'

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt visited Gary Rutherford and his team at ARC Fitness on Tuesday where he heard from a service user and Gary about the vital work and help the organisation provides to people and their families who are dealing with addiction. The Minister announced funding worth £200,000 to help secure the future for the much needed service. Picture Martin McKeown. 09.07.24

Health Minister announces £200,000 funding for ARC Fitness

Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has said inequality should be a ‘challenge for us all’ after a report showed life expectancy among poorer Derry women has fallen.

Life spans of poorer women fall as Nesbitt says inequality a ‘challenge to all’

An independent review of addiction services in the North, including Derry and the North West, is close to complete, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.

Review of addiction services including Derry close to complete

The introduction of free parking was due to happen in May.

Swann seeks 2-year delay on free parking introduction

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