Monthly Archives: August 2019

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust is urging the community to have a say on the future on stroke care and breast assessment services. The consultation is being held by the Department of Health. Earlier this month, the Northern Health and Social Care Trust admitted that it has “insufficient resource” for breast cancer services and that “demand, as is the case elsewhere, is growing”. The Trust was responding to concerns over a second “crisis” in recent months highlighted by Ulster Unionist health spokesman Roy Beggs. Mr. Beggs MLA reported that whilst all urgent suspected breast cancer referrals should be seen within 14 days, in June, just 23 per cent of ‘red flag’ patients in the Northern Trust were seen within the two-week target. The performance in April was 27 per cent, and in May, 21 per cent. The Trust is currently advertising a position for a breast radiographer to … Continue reading →

The Northern Health and Social Care Trust is urging the community to have a say on the future on stroke care and breast assessment services. The consultation is being held by the Department of Health. Earlier this month, the Northern Health and Social Care Trust admitted that it has “insufficient resource” for breast cancer services and that “demand, as is the case elsewhere, is growing”. The Trust was responding to concerns over a second “crisis” in recent months highlighted by Ulster Unionist health spokesman Roy Beggs. Mr. Beggs MLA reported that whilst all urgent suspected breast cancer referrals should be seen within 14 days, in June, just 23 per cent of ‘red flag’ patients in the Northern Trust were seen within the two-week target. The performance in April was 27 per cent, and in May, 21 per cent. The Trust is currently advertising a position for a breast radiographer to … Continue reading →

The wife of the late Ian Paisley has said it is “abominable” that MLAs are taking “money for nothing”. Baroness Eileen Paisley was discussing the Stormont stalemate on the BBC’s Sunday Sequence programme. Northern Ireland has been without a devolved power-sharing government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row. While their pay has been cut, assembly members still receive a salary. Stormont deadlock: MLA pay cut by 15% and could fall further MLAs paid £9m since Stormont suspended “I know they say they are having meetings but they’re not doing what they’re paid to do,” said Baroness Paisley. She urged politicians to get back to to power sharing and said they were “failing” the public. ‘Petty nonsense’ “It’s going to get worse and I dread it, because it leaves us open to all sorts of trouble,” she said. “They [should] get out and … Continue reading →

Hospitalised: William Cameron By Erinn Kerr December 21 2015 The shooting of a top loyalist in Co Antrim has sparked fears of further trouble before Christmas. William Cameron (50) was attacked on Friday night close to shops on the Castlemara estate in Carrickfergus. Local councillor Billy Ashe told the Belfast Telegraph that people were fearing for the future. Cameron, who has a conviction for possessing bullets, was politically involved with the Ulster Democratic Party (UDP) and later the Ulster Political Research Group (UPRG), both of which were linked to the UDA. Cameron was out walking when he was approached by three masked men, who shot him once in the calf. Mr Ashe said: “We had hoped that all this nonsense was in the past and we don’t want to see a return to these kinds of attacks in Carrickfergus.” Alliance MLA Stewart Dickson said he was “disgusted” after the paramilitary-style … Continue reading →

A group of young people from Derry who act as Young Ambassadors for Save the Children, have addressed the Stormont Education Committee, so that the voices of young people will be heard in the education debate. Education Committee members Daithí McKay, the Sinn Fein MLA for North Antrim and Conall McDevitt, SDLP MLA for South Belfast, issued the invitation during a discussion with Save the Children’s ‘Young Ambassadors’ in the Ulster Hall. Emilio Chiquito (18) from the Waterside, a Save the Children Young Ambassador pictured with Junior Minister Jonathan Bell MLA at the launch of the Save The Children’s Unlock Education campaign. The campaign seeks to give young people a voice in the education debate and calls for extra resources to be targeted at pupils living in poverty. (Picture by Matt Mackey/Presseye.com) The Ambassadors had earlier met Junior Minister, Jonathan Bell, MLA, at Belfast City Hall to launch their campaign … Continue reading →