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Minister keen to reinstate cross-border health scheme to tackle Northern Ireland waiting lists
A cross-border healthcare scheme will be reinstated to help relieve hospital waiting list pressures in Northern Ireland, the ...
Northern Ireland Health Minister asks Stormont Executive to be 'frank' on agreed budget
Last week the budget had been agreed by powersharing ministers, including £16 billion of investment in public services plus ...
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Cross-border health scheme will return to help with waiting lists – Nesbitt
A cross-border healthcare scheme will be reinstated to help relieve hospital waiting list pressures in Northern Ireland, Mike Nesbitt has said. The Health Minister told MLAs he wanted to proceed ...
Tackling £1bn cost of NI’s divided society ‘could wipe out hospital waiting lists,’ insists Alliance Party
Tackling the near £1bn annual cost of division in Northern Ireland could help wipe out waiting lists, pay for new police recruits, deliver comprehensive childcare and much more, the Alliance Party has ...
Executive agrees budget with funding to cut waiting lists and boost childcare
The Stormont Executive has agreed its budget for 2025/26, with increased investment pledged to tackle hospital waiting lists ...
List of NI patients waiting more than two weeks for ‘red flag’ cancer scans rises to almost 80k
The list of patients in Northern Ireland waiting more than a fortnight for a ‘red flag’ suspected cancer scan has grown almost seven times longer in three years.