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...“Everyone’s just exasperated,” said Helen Graham, 49, a nurse at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast....
...Ministers promise to unite behind delivering on the region’s pressing challenges, including enormous hospital waiting lists and crumbling infrastructure....
...Services have been slashed due to severe cuts by the civil servants in Belfast who are running the region in Stormont’s absence. The region already has the UK’s worst hospital waiting lists....
...Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said it had temporarily closed the accident and emergency department at Cheltenham hospital as a result of the walkout....
...Being seen to deliver on bread-and-butter issues like slashing hospital waiting lists, resolving funding crises in education and boosting childcare is an essential test of maturity for Sinn Féin....
...Northern Ireland NHS facing ‘severe challenges’ | Stormont’s Department of Health has said there is no money for health service staff in Northern Ireland to get pay rises, the BBC reports....
...Take the case of hospitals....
...She shows no sign of slowing down her political pace, despite the paralysis at Stormont....
...The case of an 89-year-old woman who waited six hours for an ambulance and died before it arrived, or hospital waiting lists so long that 53 per cent of patients have been waiting for more than a year to...
...In her hospital diaries and memoir Giving up the Ghost, Mantel gave visceral language to endometriosis, which, despite affecting one in 10 women, had for so long been under-researched and parcelled off with...
...“It’s ‘will an Irish language act cause people to either die because the [hospital] waiting lists got longer or because Covid hasn’t had a local hand because the executive collapsed?’.”...
...He said people were less diligent with mask wearing and hand sanitising and were mingling in greater numbers during a period when he has sent more patients to hospital than at any time in the pandemic....
...The move by the power-sharing executive at Stormont outside Belfast came only seven days after it decided, following a prolonged political row, to reopen bars, restaurants and hotels from November 27 — a...
...The new lockdown “had to be as hard as we could possibly do” because inpatient numbers in hospitals were not falling....
...I think a lot of people also would have expected it,” Ms O’Neill said at Stormont outside Belfast, where the executive and regional assembly are based....
...After Vail “they’ve been extremely careful not to expose themselves,” he added....
...border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK in his EU withdrawal deal, said Mr Johnson must now uphold his promises as the new executive pushes to settle a nurses’ pay strike and tackle the worst hospital...
...The Department of Health has said the pandemic is “at low levels”, with new cases in low double or single figures and hospital admissions in single figures....
...And with an upcoming election in Ireland Sinn Féin faced a further source of pressure to settle a Stormont deal....
...Mrs Foster said the restoration of the executive and assembly would not alone solve waiting lists or reduce hospital staff pressures....
...a nurses’ strike that has fuelled a hospital waiting list crisis....
...There is also a risk of insufficient numbers of hospital ventilators for patients....
...In Northern Ireland, the power-sharing executive at Stormont sees limited room for divergence from UK policy....
...“People want decisions made about welfare, hospitals and schools. That was the clear message of the election,” she said in a statement....
...A 2017 Westminster pay deal for NHS workers was never implemented in the region due to the lack of a regional government, and the number on hospital waiting lists grew to 120,000 — the longest in the UK....
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