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Health and care services
Health Minister Robin Swann: ‘No time for complacency’
Health Minister Robin Swann MLA discusses waiting lists, vaccination rollout and rebuilding Looking back over the course of the pandemic,…
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Health and care services
Vaccine hesitancy
The Department of Health has said that it does not routinely record reasons why people are choosing not to be…
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Health and care services
Record hospital waiting times
The pre-existing crisis of waiting lists in Northern Ireland has been compounded further by the pandemic. agendaNi assesses the scale…
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Health and care services
Systemic change needed at the heart of recovery
Head of British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland (BHF NI) Fearghal McKinney reveals how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected heart patients…
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Health and care services
Health and social care services plan
The Strategic Framework for Rebuilding Health and Social Care Services, first released in June 2020 and updated sporadically since, provides…
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Health and care services
Cancer waiting times
Almost 45 per cent of red flag cancer patients in Northern Ireland were not treated in the recommended time at…
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Health and care services
Health inequalities 2021
Life expectancy continues to increase in Northern Ireland but there are worrying signs of widening inequality gaps, especially in relation…
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Education
Closing the gap
A Northern Ireland Audit Office (NIAO) report has found that over £900 million of funding pledged to the narrowing of…
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Education
Usel’s U Shred NI secures major government contract
Leading social enterprise Ulster Supported Employment Ltd (Usel), which provides employment for people with disabilities, has won a major contract…
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Education
Remote learning: Learning loss
While it is difficult to measure the impact the switch to remote learning has had on children and young people,…
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